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Travel to Transylvania to See Dracula’s Castle!
by Amanda Arnold | October 27, 2010
Did you know you can visit Dracula’s castle?
Well, anyway, you maybe sorta can. Novelist Bram Stoker, who wrote Dracula in 1897, based his creepy main character on a real-life, 15th-century Romanian ruler who came to be called Vlad the Impaler on account of how he liked to impale people.
When Scott and Amundsen launched rival expeditions to the South Pole, they knew that only one group could be the first to reach the pole. Each believed his strategy would prevail, but which explorer won? Tune in and learn more in this podcast.
Academia and pop culture have been making strange bedfellows for decades now. The University of Washington offers a comparative history class on the work of rapper Tupac Shakur, Syracuse University made headlines for its course analyzing Lil’ Kim’s lyrics, and the TV series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” became academic fodder almost the second it left the airwaves. If that wasn’t enough, you can go to Liverpool Hope University in the U.K. and earn a master’s degree in Beatles Studies.
Now, the Brits have taken the pop-culture graduate degree idea and run with it: This fall, the University of Hertfordshire will offer what may be the world’s first master’s degree in Vampire Studies. Yes, really.
Why is it so difficult to separate ‘vampire’ from ‘sex’?
by Tracy V. Wilson | October 1, 2009
October is one of my favorite months. The temperature drops, leaves turn, and suddenly it becomes way more socially acceptable for adults to show up in public places wearing costumes. On top of that, the impending arrival of Halloween gives me a great excuse to spend my working hours researching zombies, werewolves and ghosts. It serves up food for thought for my colleagues, too. Earlier this week, one co-worker posed a question: Why are vampires and sex so inextricably linked?
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