The true story of one of the largest extinctions in the history of the planet The publishing house "Alpina Non-Fix" was published by the book "Creation of the Earth. How living organisms created our world ”, which was written by Andrei Zhuravlev, a paleontologist, doctor of biological sciences, professor of the Department of Biological Evolution of the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University. We publish the chapter in which Zhuravlev talks about chalk-paleogen extinction.

The life of Alan Moore in 7 strips Today, May 3, the film “Avengers: Infinity War” is released. We decided to mark this event with a text about Alan Moore, who is not directly related to the current Avengers, but his contribution to the history of comics is enormous. #1 In April 1953, the American magazine MAD published the first issue of a comic strip about Superduperman, a vain and useless superhero.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" An outstanding literary critic, writer, philosopher, specialist in Russian literature and culture, translator Vittorio Strada died in Venice. According to Vita magazine, he would have turned 89 on May 31. The cause of death was health problems.

How animals enhance the library experience The results of the seventh season of the Nora Gal Prize for the translation of short prose from English were summed up in Moscow. The 2018 winner was Muscovite Svetlana Silakova. Her victory was brought by the translation of Lucia Berlin's story “Stars and Saints” from the collection “Guide for Housekeepers”.