September 2019

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The novel “To Die in Italbar” by Roger Zelazny was published for the first ime in 1973.

Heidel von Hymack is a man who, thanks to a contact with a deity, received the power to treat people simply by touching them with his hands. Known simply as “H”, he uses his power on several planets but as a result of an accident the other face of that power starts manifesting itself, the one that causes death by touch instead of healing.

Malacar Miles has been a military man for many years and thinks he can exploit the powers of Heidel von Hymack to destroy his enemies. Finding him, however, isn’t simple and in his research he must overcome various obstacles because higher forces are also at work and have other plans for “H”.

Ken Uehura (Christopher Naoki Lee) in My Perfect World (Image courtesy AMC Studios / Amazon. All rights reserved)

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“My Perfect World” is the seventh episode of the second season of the TV show “The Terror”, which was named “The Terror: Infamy”, and follows “Taizo”. It’s broadcast in the USA on AMC Studios and in other nations on Amazon Prime Video.

Note. This article contains some spoilers about “My Perfect World”.

While Yuko Tanabe (Kiki Sukezane) possesses a doctor to fix her body, Chester Nakayama (Derek Mio) receives a package containing the letters he sent to Luz Ojeda (Cristina Rodlo) and decides he can’t stay in the internment camp. Several people at the camp fell ill, including the doctors, but Major Bowen has no intention of doing anything, so Ken Uehura (Christopher Naoki Lee) turns to extreme means to help them.

A stiff skull behind the powerful bite of Tyrannosaurus rex

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An article published in the journal “The Anatomical Record” reports a study of the anatomy of Tyrannosaurus rex’s skull which offers an explanation of how it could have bite so powerful that it could crush of its prey’s bones without breaking its own bones. A team of researchers led by Ian Cost of Albright College examined the characteristics of the T. Rex skull also using computer simulations concluding that it was as stiff as those of modern hyenas and crocodiles and not as flexible as those of snakes and birds.

A proposal to reconstruct the colors of fossil animals

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An article published in the journal “Biological Reviews” presents a study on the pigmentation of fossil animals. A team of researchers proposed a number of steps to reconstruct the pigmentation of a species based on specific tests of fossils and, if no information can be found, based on the examined animal’s hypotheses concerning physiology, ecology and behavior. The aim is to improve and expand our current knowledge on the subject.

An impact in the asteroid belt might have triggered the Great Ordovician Biodiversity Event on Earth

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An article published in the journal “Science Advances” reports a study linking the fragmentation of an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter about 466 million years ago to what is known as the Great Ordovician Biodiversity Event (GOBE). A team of researchers led by geologist Birger Schmitz of Lund University, Sweden, analyzed micrometeorites from that era. The ones of L-type chondrite type that can be linked to the fragments of that asteroid date back to the time of the ice age that marked the beginning of that biodiversity.