September 2015

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The Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic has won the tennis Grand Slam tournament of the U.S. Open 2015 defeating the Swiss Roger Federer in the final 6-4 5-7 6-4 6-4. For Djokovic it’s the second U.S. Open title and the 10th Grand Slam title.

Flavia Pennetta at Roland Garros 2015

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Flavia Pennetta has won the Grand Slam U.S. Open title defeating her countrywoman Roberta Vinci in the final 7-6 (4) 6-2. For Pennetta it’s the first Grand Slam title. After the match she stated that she wants to retire from tennis.

The Philosopher's Stone by Colin Wilson (Italian edition)

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The novel “The Philosopher’s Stone” by Colin Wilson was published for the first time in 1969.

Howard Lester is just a kid when he meets Sir Alastair Lyell and discover that he share with him a passion for science and music. Soon, Lyell becomes like a second father to the boy, who lives more with him than with his own family.

When his mentor dies, Howard contacts his family and ends up getting in touch with other people that expand his interests. After spending a long time studying problem of longevity, he starts investigating the expansion of mental skills. Over the years, along with colleague Henry Littleway he performs various experiments but also discovers the existence of the Great Old Ones and the possible dangers posed by them.

Part of the bones of the hominids called Homo naledi discovered in South Africa (Photo Lee Berger and colleagues)

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An article published in the online magazine “eLife” describes the discovery of about 1,500 pieces of bones from at least 15 individuals in a cave called Rising Star about 50 kilometers northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. According to the researchers, it’s a species related to humans unlike any known one they called Homo naledi. Another article will be published in the October issue of the magazine “National Geographic”. However, the classification of these fossils has already generated some controversy.

Peter Sellers in 1973

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Richard Henry Sellers – this was his birth name – was born on September 8, 1925 in Southsea, a suburb of Portsmouth, England. During his career, Peter Sellers was a stage, radio, television and cinema actor. Among his biggest successes there are the Pink Panther series, in which he played the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, and Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”