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Attention! THE EDGE OF FINALIA has been published, thanks in no small part to Secret readers who pushed Delores Hawk into publishing.Ìý

Check out her article on the process here.

Thanks, Secret readers! You helped make it happen.

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These bees have a very posh address. They drink from the flowers of Buckingham Palace. Click on the photo or the quotation to find out more about these fancy bees.

"London has a surprising amount of potential for bees: about a quarter is given over to back gardens alone, with parks, balconies, and open spaces bringing the foraging space for bees up to around 70 percent."

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Divination by means of the behavior of molten lead, conclusions being based on the number, form, etc., of the drops.

Confused about the difference between molybdomancy and myomancy? We're not surprised. Molydomancers tell the future by dropping melted lead into water; myonancers tell the future by watching the behavior of mice.
Jack Mingo and Erin Barrett, 'Random Kinds of Factness,' Star-NeRead More...

These secret books are ready to hide and blend in for the season.

The Word of the Day for December 21 is:

solstice Ìý SAHL-stiss Ìý noun
: the time of year when the sun is farthest north of the equator or farthest south of the equator

Examples:
People all over the world have observed celebrations linked to the summer and winter solstices since ancient times.

"Experts on Mayan culture say that date [December 21, 2012], the winter solstice, simply marks the end of a cycle, no different than flipping the calendar to aRead More...

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One of the signs of the onset of the end of this world; the final, three-year-long winter (with no intervening summers), it marks the coming of the Ragnarok, the battle that will end the world.

In a Snowball Earth, ice stretches all the way from the poles to the equator, the oceans freezing over. Norse mythology has a word for it: after Fimbulwinter, the ‘winter of winters� in which the Earth wasRead More...

WTB

Don't read it. Don't write it.

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A person who reads in bed.

'All right,' said the bookseller amiably. 'Miss Chapman, you take the book up with you and read it in bed if you want to. Are you a librocubicularist?' Titania looked a little scandalized. 'It's all right my dear,' said Helen. 'He only means are you fond of reading in bed.'
Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop

This word ultimately comes from theRead More...

Do yours? Look at this video of amazing anamorphic illusions:

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I feared this may happen. I knew reading was a dangerous business, but now it's not safe for writers either! You see, the author of this book is missing. Well, maybe not "missing." A certain author whom I won't name (okay, me) has abandoned his book and has left his readers hanging out to dry. This is a crime, I admit, but there it is. Most of this book, well, I just haven't written iRead More...