– credit, Surojit52 CC 4.0. BY-SA This year will invite many of us to gallop forward with blazing speed and boldness as the year of the horse arrives under the heavenly branch of fire. It will be a time when reserved action and meekness will be replaced with aggressivity and passion, which invites some to … Read more
Ptilotus senarius, a relative of Mulla Mulla – by Aaron Bean / iNaturalist A plant-lover who snapped a photo of an interesting shrub he found on a trip to the Outback inadvertently proved that it wasn’t, in fact, extinct, something which scientists had presumed. With 60 years having passed without a confirmed sighting of the … Read more
Graham Garnett – Supplied by police A 66-year-old man who had been missing in the rugged backcountry of New Zealand for over two weeks has now been found, even though rescue officials called off the search three days ago. Graham Garnett was discovered alive yesterday sheltering in a hut in the Kahurangi National Park by … Read more
– An image from social media just before the fire Out of the fire that claimed over 40 young lives in Switzerland on New Year’s Eve comes a story of heroism and coincidence that allowed an Italian Swiss father to help rescue 10 of the youth trapped inside the underground venue. In the Swiss town … Read more
Dylan Nolte via Unsplash A Spanish town devastated by wildfires in spring has seen its luck turn with a hundred-million-dollar windfall from a national lottery program. Left with 120,000 acres of scorched woodland and 8,000 displaced residents, La Bañeza, in the region of Castilla y León, was engulfed in trauma and grief as much as … Read more
Superman #1 via CGC and Heritage Auctions Their mother often boasted to her three sons that she had very valuable comic books upstairs, but they never sought to verify or explore her claim. Now, her Superman No.1 comic book has become the most valuable one ever auctioned, after hauling in $9.1 million on November 20th. … Read more