George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is considered a science-fiction novel. Actually, the author wanted to represent a totalitarian political system which was not at all fictional, based as it was on the Fascist and Stalinist  régimes of his times. In fact, the book was published in 1948 - the last two figures being the reverse of those in the title. Here you can read how language was manipulated to control the people's minds. By the way, the passage is in Italian. Who will translate it into English?

For general information on the novel click here.
A beautiful online edition of the whole book is the following, from the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Dinosaurs

For all those who wanted to see dinosaurs at Città della Scienza, check the great musical science project Symphony of Science. The songs remix music and speeches from famous scientists. Unfortunately, the lyrics for this song is missing.