Foucault’s pendulum experiment led to an increase in the public’s interest in both real-life science and science fiction.

During Foucalt’s life it was already proven that the Earth rotated, thanks to experiments which showed that weights dropped from tall towers fell slightly to one side rather than straight down. This ...

At long last Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum gets the homoerotic updating it has long needed. I know back when I read Poe’s classic tale in high school or watched any of the past movie ...