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Man shoots nail into brain and thinks nothing of it
Dante Autullo believed he was only grazed when nailgun went off and didn't believe doctors when they showed him X-rayA man has survived firing a nailgun into his own brain – in what surgeons worryingly said was not an unheard-of occurrence.Dante Autullo of Chicago thought doctors were joking, feeling sure he had only been grazed by the nail when it flew past as he was building a shed. Even when...
FRIDAY 20. JANUARY 2012
My hero: Evariste Galois by Andrew Miller
'His collected work runs to only 60 pages but is brimful of ideas that mathematicians today still feed off profitably'Galois was to mathematics what Arthur Rimbaud, a generation later, was to poetry. He was born in a small town south of Paris in 1811. His family were highly political, though it was a time in French history – between the revolutions of 1789 and 1830 – when to think at all was...
Aardvark baby takes its first steps at Antwerpen zoo - video
Nuru the baby aardvark was born in Antwerpen zoo in Belgium two weeks ago. It is only the 10th baby aardvark born in the zoo in more than 50 years...
THURSDAY 19. JANUARY 2012
In praise of … stargazing | Editorial
Somewhere along the road to modernity, this simple enjoyment got lost - but now it's back with a bangWhether to navigate or simply to dream, we have always stared at the sky – or at least we always used to. But somewhere along the road to modernity, the simple enjoyment of those shimmering lights above our heads got lost. All of us were in the gutter, but none of us were looking at the stars –...
The Birds of America by John James Audubon – in pictures
On Friday, this masterpiece of ornithological illustration is up for auction – and it's predicted to be the most expensive book ever...