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Speculative Fact #93: Terminator, the beta version.
Speculative Fact #91: Need a character who deals in fortunes, lost and found? What follows is a short description of the many forms or fate reading. For a handy reference, look no further. Everything from laughter to reading cats. 
Speculative Fact 90: The future is uncomfortably close, and it wants your cubicle. 
Speculative Fact #89: D- Day couldn't have come sooner. The Nazi's secret weapon: THE SUN!
Speculative Fact #88: This fish is a frog's best friend...until the fish eats them. A new kind of chemical cloaking device and scientists have no clue how it works. Give them one.
Speculative Fact #87: If you needed a scientific underpinning for a functional telepathy, I give you BEES!
Speculative Fact #86: Brush up on your Russian bestiary.
Speculative Fact #85: Invisibility is within sight. Baby steps guys...
Speculative Fact #84: BODY HACKING 
Speculative fact #83: The Swarming Mob 
Speculative Fact #82: Much to do about nothing. Neil deGrasse Tyson moderates a panel of physicists on a discussion of the concept of nothing. Get your existential on guys.
Speculative Fact #81: Viral Wars. If you're doing an outbreak story, alien or magical virus, take note; this is how the professionals handled a serious outbreak, in real time. 
Speculative Fact #80: We've always felt it, but now we know. When predictors are looking at you, when they're hunting, it's not just instinct, they are thinking.
Speculative Fact #79: Temple space found, Pantheon wanted.
Speculative Fact #78: Of course we had to talk about the Higgs. This is another one for you hard scientists. 
Speculatice Fact #77: Turn back the pages of history and tell this story. 
Speculative Fact #76: A digital you is virtually around the corner.
Speculative Fact #75: The planets keep on piling up.
Speculative Fact #74: Above all else, life always finds a way. Here's a premise for a first contact story.
Speculative Fact #73: Vikings Navigating by Sun Stone...too cool for words. 
Speculative Fact #72: These real space suits didn't make the cut, but let the retro fit inspire your own books space program. Nothing says what wears them has to be human.
Speculative Fact #71: This one's a six-pack! Googling aliens and dolphins, rain forests of bacteria in your cubicle and many more.
Speculative Fact #70: India's secret society of flight. It's a steampunk writer's dream!
Speculative Fact #69: Gruesome but true. Reason 1,001 why I will NEVER live in Florida.
Speculative Fact #68: Cthulhu babies.
Speculative Fact #67: The Rats of NIMH were fiction. This is real. A rat to rat mind meld.
Speculative Fact #66: Come on, you know you want one.
Speculative Fact #65: Before there were doctors, there were just good artists. Check out these imaginary body parts.
Speculative Fact #64: If you do hard science and near future fiction. This one is yours. One word: ENERGY.
Speculative Fact #63: Is anyone missing a continent? Does anyone need a lost world?  Here's one.
Speculative Fact #62: Gattaca Rising. Is this an inevitable next step in human evolution?
Speculative Fact #61: A true City of Bones beneath Paris.
Speculative Fact #60: It's official. There is no watch maker.
Speculative Fact #59: Zombies, but for real, really!
Speculative Fact #58: Put your next character here : The bleeding edge of neuroscience research.
Speculative Fact #57:  Admit it, you want in on the ground floor of this one. How many writers WOULDN'T sell their soul for this one?

Speculative Fact #56: A personal favorite. Zombies are not the only thing that can come back from the dead. 
Speculative Fact #55: Witch Doctors are real and deadly, and on the rise. This is one of the headlines where fiction is sometimes necessary to wrap one's head around a terrible truth.
Speculative Fact 54: Necropolis
Speculative Fact #53: It's official, France is  kicking @$$. Starting with earthquakes.
Speculative Fact #52: You mean to tell me Earth isn't the number destination in the galaxy?  
Speculative Fact #52: Clone your own kidneys. What's the PPI?
Speculative Fact #51: Their be gold in them germs! A science fiction twist on the fairy tale, Rumpelstiltskin 
Speculative Fact #50: This is a "what if", if I ever heard one... A brush with the end of everything.
Speculative Fact #49: The alchemy of venom is over a thousand years old. But now its moving into the 21 century.
Speculative Fact #48: A second home is closer than we thought.
Speculative Fact #47: There are still real monsters to be found. Give this one a good home in your story.
Speculative Fact #46: I almost feel sorry for the roaches...almost. But seriously, you need a template for an alien species, look no further than the emerald cockroach wasp. Just one more form of gruesomely deadly.
Speculative fact #45: Life imitating art, imitating freaking awesome.
Bringing in 2013 with Speculative Fact #44: You don't build a robot, you grow it.
Speculative Fact #38: Okay, I admit it, this one is just straight up silly, but tis the season. 
Speculative Fact #34: This does certainly stretch the faaaacts. 

Velikovsky
In the 1950s, Immanuel Velikovsky, a Russian phychologist (1895-1979), wrote a book called 'Worlds in Collision.' Although a bestseller, Velikovsky's theories were rejected or ignored by the academic community. Why was this?

Velikovsky stated that Venus was a new planet recently born from Jupiter and that along with Mars, Venus entered into encounters with Earth causing vast upheavals in early history. These cosmic wars affected the lives, beliefs and writings of early mankind.

Was Velikovsky correct in proposing recent upheaval in the Solar System?
Did Mars and Venus cause global disturbances by coming close to Earth only a few thousand years ago?... 


Science Fact #31: Read this at your own risk. Sometimes knowing the future is a dangerous thing.

Science Fact #30: Below the surface of the ocean there are worlds yet to be explored, or in our case created. The subconscious and the deepest oceans share the same color. 

Speculative Fact #29: Google Has Mapped the Universe.
Well, not exactly, but worth about an hour of play time, star hopping and imagining.



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