German media has several reports on a giant squid recently caught in the sea near Antarctica: here's link to the Spiegel's report, and a link to what Süddeutsche Zeitung reports. (There are dozens of other reports about this. This were just those I found first.)

Well, it seems to be a Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, and thus, according to the entry in ( Read more... )

Well, there have been people wondering about the identity of astronomical facts in the Potterverse and in Our World before (cf. this thread in the Leaky Lounge. And now (TLC once again seems to have spotted this first) we have a publication date for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows": 2007-07-21: One month after the summer solistice in Our ( Read more... )