Edward Guimont
@eguimont.bsky.social
Historian, focus on science, colonialism, and pseudoscience.
Co-author of When the Stars are Right: H. P. Lovecraft and Astronomy (Hippocampus Press, 2023)
Be on the lookout for The Power of the Flat Earth Idea, out soonish from Palgrave Macmillan
Co-author of When the Stars are Right: H. P. Lovecraft and Astronomy (Hippocampus Press, 2023)
Be on the lookout for The Power of the Flat Earth Idea, out soonish from Palgrave Macmillan
Maybe Conceptions of the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity by Georgia L. Irby. As for specific examples, not sure what sources go into them best, but Porphyrios the Byzantine whale, and the story of Alexander the Great's bathysphere and his fight with a sea monster.
November 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Maybe Conceptions of the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity by Georgia L. Irby. As for specific examples, not sure what sources go into them best, but Porphyrios the Byzantine whale, and the story of Alexander the Great's bathysphere and his fight with a sea monster.
Hope Alexandra Pelosi makes a documentary about this that I can hear @willsloanesq.bsky.social talk about some day.
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Hope Alexandra Pelosi makes a documentary about this that I can hear @willsloanesq.bsky.social talk about some day.
You can read my writeup of my stay, which included watching the Star Trek: TNG episode with Twain in his own house, here:
Time’s Arrow A Quarry Farm Testimonial
Visit the post for more.
marktwainstudies.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
You can read my writeup of my stay, which included watching the Star Trek: TNG episode with Twain in his own house, here:
French remake of the Secret Mall Apartment in Providence.
October 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
French remake of the Secret Mall Apartment in Providence.
Forget Dr. Zaius... Dr. Fauci is the real ape in our politics if you ask me!!!
October 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Forget Dr. Zaius... Dr. Fauci is the real ape in our politics if you ask me!!!
Page, a former member of the Robertson Panel, was at this time director of Van Vleck Observatory at Wesleyan University. Van Vleck was founded by two astronomers from Ladd who knew young H. P. Lovecraft. Page also drove Erwin Rommel's car: underctskies.wordpress.com/2016/02/18/t...
The Most Interesting Man of the Van Vleck Observatory
He doesn’t always drink beer, but when he does, he drinks his own. One of the difficulties of dealing with the types of archival material that rest in a historic observatory is that, while we have …
underctskies.wordpress.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Page, a former member of the Robertson Panel, was at this time director of Van Vleck Observatory at Wesleyan University. Van Vleck was founded by two astronomers from Ladd who knew young H. P. Lovecraft. Page also drove Erwin Rommel's car: underctskies.wordpress.com/2016/02/18/t...
How have I not known until now that Richard C. Hoagland was a member of NICAP?
August 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
How have I not known until now that Richard C. Hoagland was a member of NICAP?
Have to give credit, this is the one thing I thought he wouldn’t be able to control his base’s response to.
August 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Have to give credit, this is the one thing I thought he wouldn’t be able to control his base’s response to.
This was over 20 years ago now but my memory was no, which is partly what made it so shocking, it seemed to come from a very serious place as opposed to any kind of humor (which wouldn't have been off from a comedian in the early 200s), which made it even more at odds with his public persona.
August 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This was over 20 years ago now but my memory was no, which is partly what made it so shocking, it seemed to come from a very serious place as opposed to any kind of humor (which wouldn't have been off from a comedian in the early 200s), which made it even more at odds with his public persona.
The most shocking bit to me wasn't just the homophobia but that it seemed to be informed by Christian conservatism and a belief that all gays were going to Hell, which seemed so strange a belief for someone like Nelson to have, as opposed to the general homophobia of the era.
August 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The most shocking bit to me wasn't just the homophobia but that it seemed to be informed by Christian conservatism and a belief that all gays were going to Hell, which seemed so strange a belief for someone like Nelson to have, as opposed to the general homophobia of the era.
My college's nerd club put on a small convention every year and we'd typically get a local celeb to attend. Around the time Nelson gave that interview of his politics, we were able to get him as the guest, and everyone was shocked when he made truly homophobic comments to a gay student.
August 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
My college's nerd club put on a small convention every year and we'd typically get a local celeb to attend. Around the time Nelson gave that interview of his politics, we were able to get him as the guest, and everyone was shocked when he made truly homophobic comments to a gay student.