To all lovers of this season:

O thou, with dewy locks, who lookest down

Thro’ the clear windows of the morning; turn

Thine angel eyes upon our western isle,

Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring!

                              from William Blake’s To Spring (from Poetical Sketches) 1783

One of the most visionary writers of our age, Margaret Atwood talks about storytelling.  Her latest novel is Maddaddam (2013).

With great interest this wonderful poem of Chaucer should be read in our days concerning a plea for his annuity in his well-known sophisticated and higlly intellectual manner. Enjoy reading!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/feb/02/complaint-chaucer-purse-poetry

March 21st is spring equinox and International Poetry Day too. if poetry can be described as a kind of eqiuilibrium between words and ideas, enjoy some poetry reading to celebrate the coming of spring!

William Blake “The Tyger”

Percy Busshe Shelley “Ozymandias”

Listen to Adrienne Rich herself reading “In those Years”

The world’s most magic live lab: the Coral Reef.

Enjoy its beauty in this enlightening BBC video also presenting the great danger it is in.

Dark matter is one of the most intriguing subjects studied scientifically all over the world’s leading institutions  in our days. Watch an interesting lead-in video from BBC about the scientific proximity on a new theory concerning what the universe is made of.

Jane Silber, head of Ubuntu, explains how the new low-budget smartphone will make a difference.

Recently revealed in an archaelologic dig in Leicester’s car park, King Richard’s skeleton was identified via DNA examination. Richard III reigned for a short period in medieval England and died in battle in 1485 defeated by Henry VII who inaugurated the Tudor period and put an end to the War of Roses. Now the skeleton is rivalled between Leicester and York.

Watch more on BBC about Richard III’s reconstructed face and the rival between the two cities.

Original news video from BBC.

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