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Fossils from the Ediacaran Period prove to be microorganisms, not animal traces
540-Million-Year-Old Microfossils from Brazil, Long Regarded by Palaeontologists as Traces of the Movement of the Earliest Worm-Like Animals or Meiofauna, Turn Out to Be Fossilised Colonies of Bacteria and Algae. The discovery casts doubt on the hypothesis that complex, mobile animals were widely active before the
Cinema · People · Nature
Filming of “Roar” with Tippi and Melanie Griffith, who was wounded by a lion
The American actress Tippi Hedren, famed for Hitchcock's The Birds, and her "domestic" big cats. Tippi, whose full name is Natalie, is the mother of the actress Melanie Griffith and the grandmother of Dakota Johnson. In 1969, with her second husband, Noel Marshall, she made the
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Prohibitions Alone Will Not Do
Prohibitions alone will not do. The best defence is attack. A humanitarian intervention must be followed by a clever humanitarian response. The series «GDR» and «Dear Willy» have already appeared, but that is clearly not enough. Nor do these series touch on our own times. That is why I am
Observations · Society · Humour
Author doubts that painting a pool could cost 13 million dollars
Friends, painting even the largest swimming pool in the world cannot possibly cost 13 million dollars. Unless it is the pool of some middling river with its tributaries. Officials, for all that, are the same the world over. And the most dreadful thing is that the social order which allows
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Modest Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov", orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and in the version of Leonid Baratov, on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre
Modest Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov", orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and in the version of Leonid Baratov, on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. Alexander Pirogov as Boris, Bronislava Zlatogorova as Fyodor, Nikandr Khanayev as Shuisky, Alexander Peregudov as the boyar Khrushchov. Photo by Semyon Mishin-
Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris
French Parliament unanimously passes law on restitution of colonial artefacts
The French National Assembly has unanimously passed a law on the restitution of cultural artefacts removed from former colonies between 1815 and 1972. The year 1815 is that of the Congress of Vienna, after which France returned what Napoleon had plundered across Europe. The year 1972 is the date of
Art · Society · Reportage
A Brief Chronicle of the Venice Biennale, Continued
🇮🇱 The backstory to the jury's April resignation has come to light. On the eve of it, Belu-Simion Fainaru, artist and commissioner of the Israeli pavilion, sent the foundation a legal notice, construing the jury's declaration as antisemitism and discrimination on grounds of nationality. In other
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Don't you think that's rather a lot of preliminaries for assembling a simple IKEA bedside table?
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Portraits of the First Twelve Caesars, and of 63 of Their Wives and Relatives, Engraved from Ancient Coins; Together with Their Lives and Deeds, Gathered from Various Authors
Portraits of the First Twelve Caesars, and of 63 of Their Wives and Relatives, Engraved from Ancient Coins; Together with Their Lives and Deeds, Gathered from Various Authors. Primorum Caesarum et LXIII Ipsorum Uxorum et Parentum, by Levinus Hulsius. A rare Renaissance numismatic book, published in 1597 and 1599. It
Archaeology · Science · Palaeontology
Aberdeen researchers find Neanderthals used rhinoceros teeth as tools
Researchers from the University of Aberdeen have analysed marks on the teeth of the narrow-nosed rhinoceros Stephanorhinus hemitoechus from two Middle Palaeolithic sites in Spain and France, dating to some 100,000 years ago. The grooves, notches, sliding marks and scratches proved to be precisely what repeated percussion leaves
Archaeology · Museums
A walker finds a Scandinavian gold fitting of the Migration Period on the ground
In south-western Norway a tourist accidentally picked up a gold mount from a sword scabbard of the first half of the sixth century. Not a treasure hunter, not an illicit digger, not an amateur archaeologist, but simply a walker found a badly worn little piece of gold lying on