Edition 4                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2025, April

It's getting wet!

How a runaway sea turtle turned our theory upside down

Sometimes a single line is enough to throw an entire editorial team off balance. In this case: “Runaway turtle – call (413) 0512-20XX with any information.”What sounded harmless immediately triggered frantic typing, excited interjections, and at least one knocked-over coffee cup.Was this the clue we had been waiting for?A secret vacation spot?An undercover mission in the tropics?A hidden tunnel under the city that is only accessible at high tide?

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🛸 THE TRUTH™🛸

The Truth™ About Brain Research

Or: Why Your Head No Longer Belongs to You Brain research sounds harmless. Even helpful. But The Truth™ is different: Behind the laboratory walls, there are completely different plans lurking. Did you know that brain researchers aren't actually trying to understand human thought? No, no, far from it. The Truth™ is much crazier—and, of course, secret.

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Character Confidential

“Hope at any cost?”

New study on brain tumors raises ethical questions Boston, MA. In a world where every advance in the fight against cancer is celebrated as a potential turning point, the Boston Scientific Research Institute is pursuing the ambitious goal of defeating particularly aggressive brain tumors with a new clinical study. They have an experimental approach that is already causing a stir among experts – but the risks and ethical questions remain unaddressed. Lead researcher: Dr. Nicholas Morris.

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Between the lines

Nothing is where it should be – parallel worlds

Starting with the next issue, Zwischen den Zeilen will take a serious, but not humorless, look at writing—that is, at what you really don't see when you only know the finished books. Until then: keep packing. Packing, moving things around, repacking, dismantling, handing out band-aids, measuring, sawing, cursing, re-measuring... and then doing it all again in reverse order soon. And hope that at least the coffee cups turn up again, which strangely enough are neither in the old apartment nor the new house.

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BOOKS & WORLDS

Violet's World

Attention, Wonderland under construction!

Designing bookmarks? Creating characters? Sure, Violet has been working hard over the past few weeks – but if you looked closely, you might have noticed a mischievous little grin appearing between the brushstrokes. While she was working with JC to conjure up bookmarks for DELAY and Raum Zeit and bringing the characters Dr. Julia and Agent Claire to life, a completely different project had been brewing in her mind.

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Curly Troughts...

Curly thoughts about... evolution

When we talk about evolution today, we usually mean biology. Darwin. Natural selection. Fossils in museums that silently testify that life is not a static stage set, but a never-ending play with a constantly changing cast. But that is only a snapshot, a popular scientific snapshot. Evolution is not limited to genes. It is a principle. A pattern. Perhaps even a law of nature – just not in the form of a formula, but as movement through possibility.

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The BOOK NOOK

Scales, Secrets, and Maybe a Dragon?!

Hold onto your spell components and sharpen your swords, fantasy fanatics! The world of Myth and humanity have been bumping elbows for 300 years since the Merge, and things are about to get a whole lot more interesting (and potentially flammable!). Get ready to dive headfirst into Scale of the Dragon, the latest installment in the thrilling Merged Series by the fantastic Claudia Blood. Trust us, you won't want to miss this!

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