IRIS

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day provides a little Classical Content:

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This is not strictly classical, but I have a serious case of invidia bibliothecae for internet entrepreneur Jay Walker’s personal library:
Nothing quite prepares you for the culture shock of Jay Walker’s library. You exit the austere parlor of his New England home and pass through a hallway into the bibliographic equivalent of a Disney ride. [...]

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I wish I could say I was surprised, but the laudable efforts to replant fire-ravaged Olympia are well behind schedule.
“ATHENS, Greece – Greece’s Olympic Committee said Thursday that work to replant fire-ravaged woods at the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games was far behind schedule, and urged “drastic improvement” before the flame-lighting ceremony for the [...]

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For those who like their news the same way they like their classes (Latine scilicet), Nuntii Latini has posted its weekly round-up of world news:
Forum argentarium fluctuat
Facinora piratarum aucta
Lapidationem in Irania finiendam
Beneficia vitamini D

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Readers of the Iliad or the Odyssey will remember Nestor as the oldest man in the Trojan War–a lovable, loquacious councilor (or ancient, rambling codger–depending on your taste).
While perusing YLE Radio 1’s Nuntii Latini, I came across a story about the word’s oldest man, a 116-year-old Ukrainian shepherd by the name Gregory Nestor.
Gregori Nestor, pastor [...]

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