Oska Bright April Blog by Sarah Watson and Matthew Hellett We’ve just finished our Oska Bright meeting for April. We are shattered! There was a lot of heated debate in the meeting. First of all we had to think about Oska Bright 2011 and the place we will have it in – will it be in Brighton or a different area? We still don’t know where we will have it – we have to get some information from the places that we might have it in before we can make our decision. Because of the recession we haven’t got as much money as we would like. So we had to think about cutting things, and making things...

It’s been some time since we started reading an article here at Inventura about the sexual life of drones. The article says, among other things, that the role of a drone is to fertilize the queen bee and that the engagement ritual of bees is beautiful, “but very unusual, compared to human experience. Imagine that the queen bee mates at a drone congregation area with several (up to eight) drones at the same time. Every drone dies after mating, the queen bee goes back to her hive and never again returns to the drone congregation...

Participants of the creative writing course and their teacher, Tomáš Pivoda, imagined in one of their sessions the atmosphere of the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe and wrote their own text variations on the poem. See for yourself how successful they were. Here is the first stanza of the original:   Edgar Allan Poe: THE RAVEN Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume...

Portál je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky