The h2g2 Post: 10.09.18

Created Jul 17, 2018 | Updated Sep 9, 2018

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Posted: 10^th September 2018

Looking Around

In the US, the pools have closed for the summer. The last official picnics have come and gone. We can settle down and wait for autumn, while continuing to complain about the 'unseasonable' heat. Apparently, nobody sent Nature a copy of the online calendar. h2g2 Researchers, wiser than the rest, take advantage of whatever Nature sends, and whatever foolishness their fellow humans get up to, to keep up the search for the meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything. They've got their cameras ready and their typing fingers poised to share. And share they do. This week's issue takes you to some interesting places and shows you some things that may surprise, amuse, and challenge you.
Dahlias and Marigolds

Here are some highlights:

While writing this, I've also been listening to a talk at the National Book Festival given by Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels. In it, he said, 'The past is not....a bedtime story.' Very true. But I do have sort of a bedtime story about the past for you in this issue. It's a shaggy-dog story about a shaggy dog and a preacher, and I hope it will make you chuckle.
If the evolutionary past of our planet were a bedtime story, I'm afraid it would give rise to some strange dreams. Willem provides us with an ample dreamscape in this edition of 'Colours of Wildlife'. Those camels of yore may gallop through your night sky….
Our cameras have been everywhere: the elegant gardens of Vienna, a small-town park, the Sunday School picnic, street-smart Hong Kong, backyards and front yards and the side of the road. Take it all in, leave comments, start discussions.

Cats blocking doorway by Dmitri Gheorgheni

Extra videos this week: the Editor risks life and limb to bring you a pyrotechnic display, SashaQ demonstrates the stylophone, and alien X'Bert from Brightling tries his hand at Action News.
Plenty of fiction to read: 'Seek and Ye Shall Find' is in its third week, the Editor's ridiculously-named historical romp is in its second, and Paigetheoracle starts a chilling tale. Share and enjoy.
SashaQ has found a 'Q' writer to tell you about. You'll want to know.
Quizzes. Humour. Useless advice. Even more useless inventions. What would the week be without them?

Remember: the Create theme this month is about sowing and reaping. Consider sending something to the Post: postteamhg-at-gmail-dot-com. Also remember to take your cameras with you as you go about your business. Post us perplexing pics to ponder.

And have a good week!

September Create Challenge:
Sowing and Reaping

Dmitri Gheorgheni

NATURE, REAL AND IMAGINED
Colours of Wildlife: Real Camels of Yore	Suzie Q Meets Vienna: Among the Statues
Obligatory Cats: Dishy	Weather Report: Fair with Early Bubbles
THINKING HARD
24 Lies a Second The Heart of the Matter.	Post Quiz Collective nouns.
Picture Quiz Park mystery.	Writing Right with Dmitri Let's have The Talk.
LIGHTS, CAMERA, MUSIC
It's a Sign: Heads on Pikes	h2g2 Anecdote Dog gets religion?
Stylophone Serenade	Pyromania!
STORYTELLERS
Seek and Ye Shall Find Chapter 3.	The Civil Servant and the Vampire Chapter 2.
Culture Shock Chapter 1.	Join the Q Quiller-Couch.
CARTOON FUN
Art History 101 Sphinx snobbery.	Gheorgheniplex Brightling Action News.
Cartoon Corner Theme Park.	Heath Robinson Corner Lifting the flood.
USE YOUR IMAGINATION!
Email the Post Team For submissions and editorial feedback	Caption Challenge Brighten the Night.