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Milton’s use of Christian tradition is enlightening. I highly recommend him, even if you choose another path.   He urges us to think about questions and issues that concern us still. This is the Preface to my Milton study, Perversions, Originals, and Redemptions in Milton’s Paradise Lost.   PREFACE In his epic Paradise Lost,Milton employs, extends, and […]

(ANIMAL RESCUE) UNITED KINGDOM — A baby fox rescued from a well is now safe and sound at the Exotic Pet Refuge in Deeping St James, UK. No one is sure how she got in the well, but she may have been abandoned by her mother. The well was in a quarry where workers fortunately

Though plants possess nothing even remotely like brains, they can nevertheless communicate, measure time, and even use camouflage. They may not be thinking in a way that we’d recognize, but our chlorophyll-saturated pals are certainly doing a lot more than sitting around splitting water molecules. Here are ten things plants do that look pretty damn

A generation of students found out the hard way that archaeology isn’t anywhere near as much fun as Indiana Jones made it look. Still, experts in the field do have their exciting, and even shocking, days at the office. Mainly, these occur when they discover baffling artifacts that are half a planet away from where

This gorilla has a pretty enviable life. She’s presented with five kittens, gets to chose as many of them as she wants and is then celebrated for playing with them. But the gorilla hasn’t let her fame and good fortune go to her head. She selflessly takes but one baby cat to carefully cuddle, leaving

American researchers have discovered that those who have a soy protein-rich diet reduce the amount of ‘fatty deposits’ that accumulate around the liver, which can lead to liver disease. Scientists from the University of Illunois found that soy protein, derived from non-animal sources such as tofu and natural yoghurt, significantly slashes the amount of fat