Happy Reading

Nighty Night Circus Nighty Night Circus is a  bedtime story  for little children that will delight them and get them to sleep as they watch each character prepare to sleep and switch off their lights one after the other. The story begins with a little owl is sleepy and flies to a branch to get ready for bed. The owl is startled by a noise and flies down to find out. There is a circus outside town and the animals are getting ready to call it a night. First we see the bear who makes shapes with balloons. He is very sleepy. The bear blows out his candle and goes to bed. Then we see a sleepy bunny rabbit with his magic wand who dozes off while practicing magic tricks, he soon goes to bed and we wish him goodnight. We go to the elephant’s den next, the elephant is practicing on his stool. He too goes to sleep as we say goodbye. In a kettle shaped home, the snake rattles his tail, does tricks with the balls on the shelf using his tail and then finally slithers into his bask...

Neolithic surgeons might have practiced their skull-drilling techniques on cows Bovine brain surgery is pretty rare. So if you were visiting the Neolithic dig site at Champ-Durand in France and you found a roughly 5,200 year-old  cow  skull with a large hole in it, you’d probably assume it was an accidental goring. Perhaps some other cow stabbed this one in the head with its horn. You’d dutifully record your observations, assigning blame to some long-lost murder cow and move on, confident in your analysis. But you’d be wrong—at least in this case. French researchers recently revisited the purported goring victim’s  skull  and realized that this was no accident. The hole was too regular and round. There were no signs of trauma. And little cut-marks near the gaping hole look like the result of a sharp tool, not a giant horn. In fact, they resembled the scrapes seen on human skulls that have undergone trepanation, which is exactly what these sci...