July 2014

The Nightmare of Black Island by Mike Tucker

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The novel “The Nightmare of Black Island” by Mike Tucker was published for the first time in 2006.

While the Tardis is in flight, Rose Tyler is sleeping but her rest is disturbed by a nightmare. When she wakes up, the Tenth Doctor is puzzled because the Tardis was showing signs of discomfort as if she was having a nightmare along with Rose. This means that there’s some telepathic emission that causes those bad dreams. He wants to look into the issue, trace a route to its source and the Tardis arrives at Ynys Du, a Welsh village.

The arrival of the Doctor and Rose is worthy of the nightmare because they find strange spots of blood on the ground and suddenly they are reached by a group of monstrous creatures. The two of them manage to escape and find shelter in a pub full of locals. There they discover that the village nights are tormented by those monsters but what’s the involvement of Nathaniel Morton, a millionaire born there who recently came back?

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After the surprising defeat suffered last Saturday in the fourth round of the singles tournament, Serena Williams was hoping to win at least the doubles tournament with her sister Venus. Yesterday, however, she tried to play against Stefanie Voegele and Kristina Barrois but had to withdraw after only three games because she could barely stand. According to the official announcement, she contracted a virus.

Waste reaching Kamilo Beach in the Hawaii

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A study published in the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” presents the results of a research on plastic waste in the world’s oceans. A group of scientists took samples of waste in various ocean areas in 2010 and 2011 and from the data they gathered they estimated that the amount of plastic in the oceans is up to 40,000 tons. Other researches that that took into account the data down to the ’70s estimated that thare might be up to one million tons of plastic in the oceans and this raises the question of what happened to the missing plastic.