After the success that the cult series of Crime Scene Investigation (C.S.I.) harvested in the United States, distributing complicated cases through Miami, Las Vegas or New York, a journalist asked its creator Anthony E. Zuiker when he was going to carry out his project to the big screen. Zuiker answered that he would think about this proposal after approximately thirty seasons on television. C.S.I. continues to make converts in commercial channels worldwide and the script seems to be endless.

On the unknown surface of the furthest galaxy, the shadow projected by man is elongated. In this case it does not articulate battles between empires and the company of the force, but a profound peace and the fragility of ancient cultures. The Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI), the Superior Council of Scientific Research (CSIC) and the International Initiative Universe Awareness (UNAWE) pay tribute to the International Year of Astronomy (IYA 2009) with a book on stories about celestial phenomena, from the hand of distinguished specialists and following the narrative tradition of cultures in great part extinct.

The power of music goes far beyond the pure charm or fun. Its effect mobilises more cognitive areas of the brain than language itself; but this is not the same the world over. As a curiosity, the English neurologist Oliver Sacks explains in this book that there are people who are totally “a-musical”; it is not that they do not like music, they are just are incapable of differentiating music from any other noise. For the rest of mortals, the melody is a pleasure taken from its own existence. The majority of our memories and our most genuine emotions have the soundtrack to a particular piece of music or a song...

In 1938, Orson Welles used actors of his company to represent a very realistic adaptation for radio of the novel of H.G. Wells The War of Worlds. The result caused such a stir that many inhabitants from New Jersey abandoned their houses in a panic state thinking they where being invaded by alien forces. It became obvious that there is suggestion in the way of explaining things, may they be certain or not (Publicists took good notice of it).

A pure and hard two hour documentary (not just about schizophrenia, but about the schizophrenic), like a deserved punch, a slap in the face. You can say that you do not care, but you will never again feel alien… A documentary also has this function. The enchantment of a sunset over the Serengeti, Natural Park in Tanzania, cannot enrich us aesthetically without considering the true ethics underlying the entire African continent; and has more to do with the poverty of the human republic than the richness of the animal kingdom. A good documentary stinks, harms, even hurts.

He is 59 years old, he loves DIY, but his real passion is the crude and indispensable art of drilling skulls; skulls of live and frightened people. When Henry Marsh, neurosurgeon from St George Hospital in London, explains to his Ukrainian patients that he will drill their skulls with an electric drill and without anaesthetic, in order to remove a cerebral tumour whilst at the same time discussing the harshness of winter, they [the patients] do not run away nor do they despair; they have nowhere else to go and are desperate.

The hollow crash of a cane hitting the ground makes us guess the coming of a blind person without even seeing him. The voice of a blind person sounds even louder; sometimes even rude. Because the blind person does not know if we see him, but he knows we can hear him and he demands to be heard. His misfortune saddens us, but does not trouble us too much; we know he cannot do us any harm, nor can he infect us with his blindness. Nobody is afraid of a blind person. In Toronto, Canada, Fernando Meirelles puts in 'Blindness' voice and image to a novel of Jose Saramago 'Essay on Blindness', which speculates with the effects of a global blindness...