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Be in the know! Subscribe to Announcements, you know you want to. Find out who's reading what, who's doing what, and how you can get involved.....h2g2 Communications h2g2: the unconventional Guide to Life, the Universe, and Everything, written by you. Take a walk around the site, enjoy the entries below, join a conversation. Get involved! Operation Thunderbolt Raid on Entebbe
The story of a daring raid by Israeli commandos to free hostages from a hijacked airliner....read Entry | The Showcase Presents Physics
This week, we continue the science theme with a selection of entries on the subject of physics. Did you know that the word 'physicist' was coined in 1840 by an English clergyman, the Rev. William Whewell? Well, now you do. | How to Make Salt Dough Decorations
Here's a cheap, safe and fun activity for creative children. There's plenty of time to perfect your technique before next Christmas comes around!...read Entry | The Post 
This week, the Post offers you excitement, thrills, and mystery. So what else is new? One of the mysteries is where the headers came from, but Brits are at a disadvantage here. The first submissions for the Science Fiction Challenge are in, surrealist poetry and time travel are afoot, and we have news from around the globe. Take the plunge, and boldly go where no reader has gone before.
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An entry to make us think about disability and equality in society....read Entry | Peer Review Peer Review is the part of h2g2 where you, the Community, help us to decide which Entries should be published on the Front Page. Please support our writers by reading their latest submissions, and offer your thoughts on their work. Here is one of our recent submissions: Indiana | Infinite Improbability Drive Delve into our archive of published Entries with the Infinite Improbability Drive. | Quote of the Day “Have you tried depressing the 'F' key?
Hey, F key – the banking system is screwed, global warming's accelerating, the oil's running out, we're no nearer solving how to do fusion, the euro's likely to collapse and probably in a few years China will rule the world. Also, you look fat.
That should do it.” Hoovooloo | Community Creations Create's theme this month is science and science fiction. What do you know about bulletproof glass? Enough to update an entry? Could you use five pictures to launch a thousand rockets to the New Science Fiction Workshop? Want to have 42-word stories or 42-themed photos featured in h2g2's podcast project? Visit Create. Create's theme next month is... well, why not visit our new
planning page and see? STOP PRESS! The wider internet world has just announced a competition to set one of Douglas Adams' prophetic audio recording to animation. Find out more by visiting Create. | Topical Entries
This week marks ten years since the death of children's author Astrid Lindgren, who created well-known characters such as Pippi Långstrump (Pippi Longstocking). We remember her alongside some other great storytellers. |
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