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For generations Italians have taken comfort from a saying that the political situation was critical but not serious .
With the latest political crisis, the parlous state of the country can no longer be laughed away.
After the patience of 79 year old president Sergio Mattarella snapped, Mario Draghi, the former head of the European Central Bank accepted a mandate on Wednesday to form a new government. The prime minister s designation was asked to tackle head on “the serious health, social, economic and financial emergencies” facing Italy. Mario Draghi (L) arrives at the Quirinal Palace for a meeting with President Mattarella after the former ECB head was asked to form a new government. EPA
An artistic rendering of Kraken Mare, the large liquid methane sea on Saturn’s moon Titan. Astronomers estimate Titan’s largest sea is 1,000 feet deep
January 20, 2021
Far below the gaseous atmospheric shroud on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, lies Kraken Mare, a sea of liquid methane. Cornell astronomers have estimated that sea to be at least 1,000 feet deep near its center – enough room for a potential robotic submarine to explore.
After sifting through data from one of the final Titan flybys of the Cassini mission, the researchers detailed their findings in “The Bathymetry of Moray Sinus at Titan’s Kraken Mare,” which published Dec. 4, 2020, in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
About 252 million years ago a carnivorous crocodile-like reptile 4m-long was hunting in what is now the Alps.Its footprints were fossilised and thrust upwards to be part of the Gardetta Plateau in
by Kathy Melvin | Presbyterian News Service
Paolo Naso, national coordinator for Mediterranean Hope, will be a featured speaker during Tuesdayâs webinar. (Photo provided by Mediterranean Hope)
LOUISVILLE â The Office of Public Witness, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance and Presbyterian World Mission will offer a webinar on the migration crisis in Southern Europe from noon through 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, Jan. 19.
During the webinar, participants will learn how non-governmental organizations and churches in Southern Europe are working together to welcome refugees facing xenophobia and racism. Theyâll also learn about new life-saving efforts such as humanitarian corridors, which can save many lives now lost in the Mediterranean Sea.
Caligulaâs Garden of Delights, Unearthed and Restored
Relics from the favorite hideaway of ancient Romeâs most infamous tyrant have been recovered and put on display by archaeologists.
 A theatrical mask in marble dust, recovered from the Horti Lamiani, the pleasure garden of the Roman emperor Caligula.Credit.Nadia Shira Cohen for The New York Times
By Franz Lidz
The fourth of the 12 Caesars, Caligula â officially, Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus â
was a capricious, combustible first-century populist remembered, perhaps unfairly, as the empireâs most tyrannical ruler. As reported by Suetonius, the Michael Wolff of ancient Rome, he never forgot a slight, slept only a few hours a night and married several times, lastly to a woman named Milonia.