The Astronomical Enquirer
I decided to start a new astronomical journal that would publish only high profile articles that would be fun to read. The first paper is now out: On the Use of Astronomy: Predicting the Doom of Humankind, H.M.J. Boffin et al., 1 April 2104
Best Of The Messenger
In the new digital age, one can easily search for things but it becomes very difficult to make serendipitous discoveries, as one would often make when entering a library and glancing through journals and magazines. I had the chance to have - until recently - a full collection of the Messenger, the ESO journal. I was rather surprised and very amused to see that in the first issues, until the late 1970тАЩs, the editor, Dr. Richard West, did not hesitate to introduce very funny pieces тАУ including cartoons тАУ as well as rather interesting general purposes articles. You can find hereby my personal selection but now that all the Messengers have been digitised, donтАЩt hesitate to have a look at their page (http://www.eso.org/sci/publications/messenger/). Hopefully, we will see again such kind of articles in future issues of The Messenger.