February 2014

Jonathan Lethem at the National Book Critics Circle Awards in 2012

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Jonathan Allen Lethemwas born on February 19, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York. Jonathan Lethem manages to mix various literary genres in a truly unique way. It’s therefore impossible to predict what his next novel will be like. Being surprised is part of the pleasure of reading this author.
In the course of his life, Jonathan Lethem has been married three times: with the artist Shelley Jackson from 1987 to 1997, with Julia Rosenberg from 2000 to 2002 and from 2004 with Amy Barrett, with whom in 2007 he had a son, Everett Barrett Lethem.

Artistic concept of the Solar Orbiter space probe during its mission (Image ESA/AOES)

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Burnt char bone, also known by other names such as bone black, a black pigment already used more than 30,000 years ago in cave paintings will be used to coat the heat shield of the Solar Orbiter (SOLO) space probe. It’s an ESA mission in collaboration with NASA whose launch is scheduled for early 2017. Its purpose is to study the Sun from a relatively close distance of about 42 million km (about 26 million miles).

Vitals by Greg Bear

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The novel “Vitals” by Greg Bear was published for the first time in 2002.

Hal Cousins ​​is a scientist who is working on biotechnology related to longevity. To find out how to overcome aging he must make an expedition into the depths of the Pacific Ocean. He finds funding from a billionaire interested in living for thousands of years and in the course of an expeditionary in the sea he finds the creatures that he thinks have the right genes to find the secrets of longevity.

Christopher Eccleston at the premiere for Thor: The Dark World

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Christopher Eccleston was born on February 16, 1964, in the Langworthy area of Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire, England. During his career, he participated in many stage, television, and movie productions. He’s most famous for playing the Nine Doctor in the “Doctor Who” relaunch though he left the role after only one season.

Specimen of Pikaia exposed at at the Smithsonian in Washington

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The Burgess Shale is an area in Canada very well known in the world of paleontology because it represents an extraordinary reservoir of fossils from the Middle Cambrian, which is about five hundred million years ago. In 2012, in Kootenay National Park, about 40 km from the original site, a new deposit of fossils was discovered described in a paper just published in the journal “Nature Communications”.