On this
day in 1938 Orson Welles, best known these days for his role as the narrator in
the 1980s animated transformers film, broadcast his radio play of H.G. Wells'
War of the Worlds. The play told the story of alien invasion through a series of
faux news bulletins and this fooled many American's who had missed the start
into thinking the Earth really was being invaded.
And now
the news:
My theory is he's a relative: Monkey is dead ringe...
Honey-bees found to have bite that stuns
Apeman of the Amazon
Brazil: Saving endangered monkey helps forest
Zimbabwe weighs cost of too many elephants
Whale Racket: Sounding out How Loud the Oceans Wer...
NYC Museum Celebrates Teddy Roosevelt's Conservati...
Size Does Matter in Sexual Selection, at Least Amo...
Firefighters in nutty squirrel rescue
The
play in full, epic even today:
This blasted recession is really beginning to hit. Unlike some of our competitors we are not going to try and blackmail you into donating by saying that we won't continue if you don't. That would just be vulgar, but our lives, and those of the animals which we look after, would be a damn sight easier if we receive more donations to our fighting fund. Donate via Paypal today... 
Richard Freeman's remarkable new book is now available. However, for some reason known only to themselves amazon.co.uk have listed it as taking 3-5 weeks to arrive.
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In November Sahar Dimus, our guide on four CFZ Sumatra expeditions, died of liver failure leaving a widow Lucy and four Children. On the 2nd November, Dezyama D. Sangma, wife of our friend and colleague Dipu Marak, our collaborator on the 2010 Indian expedition died, leaving her grieving husband and two small children.
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