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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...


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 –...