From the book “Asteroids: Born of Flame” Nothing calms your nerves and puts you in a philosophical mood like reading about what happened billions of years ago with objects on a scale of tens of billions of kilometers. We publish an excerpt from the book of astronomer Leonid Elenin, dedicated to the time before the birth of the Sun. All of us, since February 24, 2022, have found ourselves in the face of advancing barbarity, violence and lies.

About “Photogenie” by Louis Delluc People did not immediately understand that cinema was not a mixture of photography, literature and theater, but an independent form of art, and one of those who made a decisive contribution to the formation of such an idea was the French critic, fiction writer and director Louis Delluc, who published the book “Photogenie” in 1920. Not at all similar to modern works on cinema, free in style and form, it stands at the origins of modern film studies.