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Write This Book: A Do-It-Yourself Mystery, Pseudonymous Bosch, (Hachette/Little, Brown BYR) The readers who cut their teeth on Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events took to Pseudonymous Bosch with ease, delight and fervor. This entry into the series that began withThe Name of This Book Is Secret is more of a “consumable” as readers are encouraged to participate in the creation of the story. Yet, if you are thinking about satisfying a rabid reader, this is a must-have (just catalog it as reference for programming or as part of your Writing Box program. You do have a Writing Box program? If not, download this Writing Box How-to).

Wordnik Word of the Day for April 01, 2013

juggins

A dull fellow; a chump.

A fool; someone very credulous or easily fooled.

He felt an awful fool, a — what was it? — a juggins, ah! — a Juggernaut.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll, by H.G. Wells

It's the La Times Festival of Books. This event had once been highly regarded but these days they're even letting that scoundrel the Impostor appear in one of their panels.

Click here to go to nasa's website, where you can sign up to receive alerts about when you might spot the International Space Station in the sky overhead.

Did you know ... in the Middle Ages, animals that did bad things were tried in court. Read more about it here on slate if you think it's crazy.

We swear we just stumbled upon this website where they are selling helmets to prevent alien abductions. We don't have an alien problem.

And look at their performance record! It's sterling:

A popular crowd-funding website has a project currently going to fund a new Deathstar. The page states, "We need to protect ourselves from threats far far away so lets build a death star."

They're hoping to raise £20 million.

Clara Moskowitz tells us - A subatomic particle discovered last year that may be the long-sought Higgs boson might doom our universe to an unfortunate end, researchers say.

The mass of the particle, which was uncovered at the world's largest particle accelerator — the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva — is a key ingredient in a calculation that portends the future of space and time.

"This calculation tells you that many tens of billions of years from now there'll be a catastrophe," Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., said Monday (Feb. 18) here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Click here for Clara's article.

Columbia's student newspaper has reported that $5,000.00 worth of the chocolate-hazelnut spread Nutella gets stolen every week.

Click here to read the whole article.

Nat-Geo shares with us this story about a rare type of bee that harvests petals to build flower and mud nests for their larvae.

Click here to see more pictures of this rare bee and its nests.

Urgent message for aspiring writers: Mr. Bosch has a book coming out April 2nd and he hasn't written it yet! He needs your help ...

Here is a writing contest!

Prizes are being awarded in three categories:

Funny

Musterious

Weird

We can't think of three words that better describe many Secret readers. In fact, they're the words they often use to describe themselves! 

You can find out more about it & complete entry instructions on dogonews.com by clicking here. 

Watch this video to learn more:

Complete rules at dogonews.com. Be sure to check there for instructions on how to enter. 

We prefer chocolate but happy Pi day!

Agent KJ posted this on facebook:

We love it! Thanks for sharing it with us ... or ... whoever it is, over on Facebook.

Agent KS sends in this picture and wonders ...

Does chocolate go well with jam/s?

Thanks for the picture. We think it rocks.

-Quiche

Lewis Carroll was born over 181 years ago. Here are some great quotations of his, recently posted to the Huffington Post.

Wordnik Word of the Day for March 04, 2013

scripturient

Having a desire or passion for writing; having a liking or itch for authorship.

One who has a passion for writing.

*We hope this describes you since Mr. Bosch refuses to write his next book himself.

Wordnik Word of the Day for February 28, 2013

dentiloquist

An unnamed agent sent in this picture they drew:

A secret drawing by a secret artist! Now we've seen everything. And to boot, we hear the artist won $10 in a contest with this drawing. I bet none of the judges were wearing white gloves. 

Special Agent Mrs. Conway had her class make some homunculi - but don't worry, they made the sock monster versions and no dung was used (we hope!). 

Here is what they came up with! 

Look at all those homunculi. So many ways to describe them.

Thanks for writing in and sending the photo.

-Quiche