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Sungazing (SA/2022)   "And as she lay, she looked up through her fingers at the central sun whose outer edges streamed brilliance....

  Liz Truss promises to ride out the storm, whilst Boris Johnson says he'll return to his plough.      I.    There was nothing new or i...

  Singer and songwriter Nellie Mackay  Poet and novelist Michel Houellebecq    "My oh my, walkin' by  Who's the apple of my eye...

A female false widow spider  (SA/2022)     I'm not an arachnologist , but I think that the creature pictured above that I discovered hid...

  Cover of the French magazine   Noir et Blanc (12 June 1959)     Despite the best efforts of the press in the 1950s to create a rivalry be...

Caricature of Lord Moulton  Vanity Fair (4 Oct. 1900)   "The great principle of Obedience to the Unenforceable is no mere ideal,  but ...

Charles Penrose  The Laughing Policeman (1922) [1]     "A fool lifteth up his voice with laughter; but a wise man doth scarce smile a l...

"We want to become those who we are - the new, the unique, the incomparable,  those who impose on themselves their own law, those who c...

As the ancient proverb says:  Never let a monkey sneeze in your face, or a shark walk up behind you ...   I.    Steven Salzberg published a...

A 16th-century illustration showing Archimedes  in his bathtub     I.    Eureka! is a transliteration from the ancient Greek word εὕρηκα, m...