Some amazing photos at the following BBC link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/19978529 Junior overall winner Owen Hearn took this image 'Flight paths' at his grandparents' farm in Bedfordshire, UK. Owen, aged 14, photographed the red kite at the site chosen for London’s third airport in the late 1960s. "Opposition to the planned airport stopped it going ahead, which is why I can photograph the wildlife on the farm today" he explained.
Creativity is often part of a mental illness, with writers particularly susceptible, according to a study of more than a million people. More@http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19959565
Troubled minds
Novelist Virginia Woolf, who wrote A Room of One's Own and To the Lighthouse, had depression and drowned herself
Fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen, who wrote The Ugly Duckling and The Little Mermaid, had depression
US author and journalist Ernest Hemingway, who wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls, had depression and killed himself with a shotgun
Author and playwright Graham Greene, who wrote the novel Brighton Rock, had bipolar disorder
Just returned home after seeing the fascinating premiere of “The Believers“, the Cold Fusion documentary made by 137 Films which is part of the Chicago International Film Festival. It will be shown again on October 20th at 2pm. The AMC River East 21 is located @ 322 E Illinois St, Chicago, Illinois 60611
More info. on the Chicago International Film Festival at: http://www.chicagofilmfestival.com/ Synopsis of The Believers on 137 Films website:
"The Believers begins in March of 1989, when two respected scientists from the University of Utah stand in front of a wall of reporters; flashbulbs pop as the pair --- one shy, the other cracking jokes --- announce a startling claim: they can solve all the world’s energy problems using seawater, batteries, and the mysterious glass contraption they hold in their hands as they pose proudly for the US and international press. “Cold Fusion” is born. Within days, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann are on the cover of Time Magazine. But, only three short months later, their careers in tatters and their reputations ruined, they flee the country and cold fusion becomes synonymous with "bad science." Everyone - the press, the public, and especially the mainstream science community - assume Cold Fusion is dead.
But there are those who refuse to accept that. More than twenty years after the infamous event, a band of professional and amateur scientists, a high school whiz kid and a Hollywood-based internet DJ are confident that Pons and Fleischmann were right after all and Cold Fusion will save the world. They're The Believers."
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is for China roughly what Homer is for Europeans: a swashbuckling adventure story, with lots of blood, excitement and craftiness on the battlefield. According to the following BBC article, it's a good thing to read if you want to discover how China really works! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19897371
The Ghent Altarpiece, also known as the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, is being restored at a cost of more than 1m euros (£800,000; $1.3m). More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19885610
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