Kaleidoscope, a Birmingham-based British non-profit organization specialized in the research and conservation of old television programs, announced that it discovered and acquired a copy of the episode “Tunnel of Fear” of the first season of the TV show “The Avengers”. It’s an extraordinary event because so far of the first season only the first episode’s first act and two complete episodes were available.
The novel “The Rise of Endymion” by Dan Simmons was published for the first time in 1997. It’s the fourth book of the Hyperion Cantos and is the sequel to “Endymion”.
Pope Julius XIV is dead and they have to proceed to a new conclave. When Lenar Hoyt resurrects again, he gets re-elected pope but this time decides to take a different name and becomes Pope Urban XVI. As his first act, he announces a crusade against the Ousters with a new fleet of Archangel class starships.
Raul Endymion is on Earth with Aenea but it comes time to resume their journeys. The two of them must separate for a certain period and the trip creates between the two of them a time lag so when they meet again on the planet T’ien Shan Aenea is 21 years old. There Aenea is considered a messianic or even a divine figure but the most difficult part of her journey is still to come.
An article published in the journal “Current Biology” describes the study of fossils of Drepanosaurus unguicaudatus, a reptile that lived in the Triassic period, about 212 million years ago. The discovery complete fossils of this animal in New Mexico allowed to carry out detailed exams which confirmed that it had very strong forelimbs with a huge claw and an anatomic conformation definitely out of the normal that surprised the paleontologists.
The short story “Big Bang Larissa” by Cristian M. Teodorescu was published for the first time in 2014. It was translated from Romenian by Loredana Fratila Cristescu.
Larissa is twenty years and starts asking her mom questions about the nature and origin of money. Her mother doesn’t want to give her only ritual commandments and answers based on various rules and tries to explain how Accounting, Mint and other elements of Finance work but her daughter’s curiosity threatens to trigger a crisis.
An article published in the journal “Current Biology” describes a research on a species of reptile that was called Triopticus primus. A group of paleontologists led by Michelle Stocker of Virginia Tech College of Science studied this reptile that lived about 230 million years ago, noting several features similar to those of pachycephalosaur dinosaurs that lived 100 million years later. The research also revealed other similarities between animals contemporary to Triopticus primus and dinosaurs that lived millions of years later.
