Posts Tagged ‘ fiction ’

Crop Circles

May 24, 2012
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The six-pointed star has appeared in Jewish iconography for a thousand years. But there’s a chance that the Magen David is meaningful to another, far different culture–an alien culture. When Google started mapping out aerial views of Earth, its geomappers discovered some unexpected sights–for example, clean, crisp views of crop circles. Crop circles are a phenomenon in which…

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A Holiday from the Black Plague

December 21, 2011
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In The Decameron, a group of 10 young people–three women and seven men–leave the city of Florence,…

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Rabbis in Space

September 7, 2010
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Jack Dann is a brilliant science fiction writer. He’s also Jewish–though in much of his…

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