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How about this for a fossil?
How about this for a fossil? I am sure there is still some 10 per cent of charge left in it
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The Witch, John Collier, 1893
And why a witch, exactly? Because the woman is asleep and awake at once, having taken the form of a black cat.
Geography · Observations · Science
The Sharpest Photograph of Uranus Yet
A reminder: Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, the third largest by diameter and the fourth by mass in our system. Please look upon this beauty as you did on the starry sky in childhood, and forget all that is transient and vain; leave your sorrows, fears and
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The Ministry of Justice in England is planning to digitise historical documents from its archives
The Ministry of Justice in England is planning to digitise historical documents from its archives. We are speaking of wills covering at least the last two hundred years. This is held to be a boon for historians and genealogists, who will gain access to the documents. Where does this initiative
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However You Pray for the Weekend to Be Prolonged, the Working Week Comes Round All the Same
NB! · Observations · Science · Nature
Simply Incredible Photograph of the Moon
Coming Up · Moscow · Observations · Pop Culture · Reportage · Saint Petersburg · Humour
In a world after some irreversible catastrophe, only one Oleg Kikimora remains: a thinker shaped like a bun, wrinkled as a dried fig, who lives in a deadly bog and arranges his existence under the dictatorship of aggressive flora and…
To keep boredom at bay, Oleg Kikimora sets up his own radio station, SPGS, and with his broadcasts shatters the silence of a nature reserve in hiding, lit only by smoky skies and the occasional saluting meteorite. The radio's programme consists of conversations with subscribers, for instance an
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Paris
New look for the rooster as the decor is recreated after the original was lost in a fire
It is disconcerting that the new symbol of Notre-Dame de Paris differs so greatly from the original figure made by the French sculptor Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume, author of the statues of the twelve apostles at the foot of the spire. And yet one may see a certain logic in
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Frost down to minus 10 degrees expected today, readers advised to dress warmly
Don't forget to wrap up warm! Down to -10* today
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages
A new contemporary art fair, Catalog, has opened in the Sytin printing house on Pyatnitskaya Street
A new contemporary art fair, Catalog, has opened in the Sytin printing house on Pyatnitskaya Street. The fair is organised by the Association of Galleries and may be regarded as normative: laid out in a single line, clearly arranged, with all the galleries on an equal footing, to the point
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Delighted to Meet You, Caravaggio
Conversing with strangers on the internet reaches a new level
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The chief thing that the "ugliest fountain in Europe", unveiled for the 150th anniversary of Vienna's water supply, this little "masterpiece" by the art group Gelatin costing 2 million euros, makes one ponder is why one part of society admires it, surely…
Yet what, if not such provocative, even nauseating art, can compel us to reflect? The question is not a new one, but ought art, after all, to be beautiful? What function do such works serve? Beauty awakens feelings familiar to everyone: at the sight of a butterfly fluttering over a