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René van Slooten
René van Slooten

René van Slooten is a leading ‘Poe researcher’, who theorizes that Poe’s final treatise, ‘Eureka’, a response to the philosophical and religious questions of his time, was a forerunner to Einstein’s theory of relativity. He was born in 1944 in The Netherlands. He studied chemical engineering and science history and worked in the food industry in Europe, Africa and Asia.The past years he works in the production of bio-fuels from organic waste materials, especially in developing countries. His interest in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Eureka’ started in 1982, when he found an antiquarian edition and read the scientific and philosophical ideas that were unheard of in 1848. He became a member of the international ‘Edgar Allan Poe Studies Association’ and his first article about ‘Eureka’ appeared in 1986 in a major Dutch magazine. Since then he published numerous articles, essays and letters on Poe and ‘Eureka’ in Dutch magazines and newspapers, but also in the international magazines ‘Nature’, ‘NewScientist’ and TIME. He published the first Dutch ‘Eureka’ translation (2003) and presented two papers on ‘Eureka’ at the international Poe conferences in Baltimore (2002) and Philadelphia (2010). His main interest in ‘Eureka’ is its history and acceptance in Europe and its influence on philosophy and science during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Essays Literature 

Ethiopia and its sugarcane salvation

August 29, 2016August 29, 2016 René van Slooten 984 Views

Ethiopia is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, with a rich and varied nature and wildlife. However,

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News Reviews Travel 

Norway to Russia is rough at the edges

August 12, 2016August 12, 2016 René van Slooten 315 Views

In 1891 the Norwegian goverment challenged the nation’s ship owners to start a regular, year around post and parcel service

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Essays Literature 

Van Gogh and the gas madness

September 26, 2015November 14, 2015 René van Slooten 685 Views

In a recent article it was argued that Edgar Allan Poe and his wife Virginia suffered from chronic poisoning by illuminating

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Essays Literature 

Edgar Allan Poe and his mysterious Eureka

June 19, 2015 René van Slooten 407 Views

Editor’s Note: This essay first appeared on MysteriousWritings.com. It is published with permission. The American poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe

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Health & Fitness News 

Salt can save your life

June 15, 2015 René van Slooten 317 Views

Human blood and body tissue contain 9 grams of salt per liter. This salt plays an essential role in many

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Essays Literature 

Gravity: The mysterious force

June 8, 2015June 9, 2015 René van Slooten 309 Views

Will we soon have flying carpets? Skyscrapers without elevators? Airplanes without wings? We should start to think seriously about such

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Literature 

Depressed and overweight? Look to the past

May 13, 2015May 14, 2015 René van Slooten 320 Views

During the harsh winter of 1944-1945 a large part of the German-occupied Netherlands suffered from severe shortages of food and

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Arts & Entertainment News 

Science searches the mystery of Gravity

April 11, 2015April 11, 2015 René van Slooten 414 Views

Will we soon have flying carpets? Skyscrapers without elevators? Airplanes without wings? We should start to think seriously about such

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Literature Poetry 

Edgar Allan Poe for the dreamers

April 8, 2015 René van Slooten 408 Views

Was Edgar Allan Poe an alien? Many of his contemporaries seemed to think so, and so do quite a few

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Christmas and Winter Solstice International News 

Dutch adopt the heroes that liberated Europe

December 21, 2014December 21, 2014 René van Slooten 346 Views

Photo above: Dutch and Belgian veterans saluting the grave of a fallen American comrade, Capt. Donald R. Emerson, a fighter

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