The pups Poppy and Sam have found an almost complete skeleton of an ichthyosaur, 190 million years old, on a beach in Somerset. Palaeontologists are now trying to establish whether the remains belong to a new species of extinct marine creature. In short, walk your doggies more often
At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least
