Under your Bed: The Need for Monsters

Inspired by a recent watch of Godzilla vs. King Kong I explore the notion of monsters and monster myth through history.

Why do we create monsters? What do they represent? And why do some of them endure through the ages?

Celestial Classics: Vesta

Vesta. No, not what every self-respecting beige-suit wearer from the 70s passed for exotic food, and not a box of matches. Vesta is an asteroid in the asteroid belt (that bit of rocky stuff mainly between Jupiter and Mars’ orbits), the second largest after Ceres, who we will almost certainly talk about later. It is