08/10/17

[Maik]

Sand cat kittens captured on video in wild for first time

The eight-week-old felines were spotted in the Moroccan Sahara after researchers tracked them for four years.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/sand-cat-kittens-captured-video-wild-first-time-panthera-researchers-africa-sahara-morocco-a7987756.html

[TonyKath]

Very cute but look a bit fazed by the camera!

Tony

[Maik]

Just across the stream, a shark caught near Astakos earlier this week. First thought to be a soap shark, later said to be a Bluntnose Six-gill Shark (Hexanchus griseus). Not particularly dangerous to humans. More info at icunredlist.org


Photo credit: ksiromeritikimatia.blogspot.gr

[Maik]

Origin by Dan Brown – a Nostradamus for our muddled times
Machines with synthetic brains pose a danger to mankind in Brown’s latest dotty apocalyptic thriller

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/08/origin-dan-brown-review

  Hm, that review might dissaude you as much as persuade you, there's a shorter and more appealing review on goodreads.com