The Renaissance

The exact birth of the Renaissance is widely disputed. The Renaissance itself was a glittering period in Europe that bridged…

Autopsies

Opening up bodies to establish the cause of death has been going on for a very long time. The word…

Daniel Gajdusek

In the mid-1960s the Fore were dropping like flies as the kuru epidemic threatened to do to the Fore what…

The Fore People

Dr. Ekman, who sports a grey goatee beard befitting perhaps of a man with a reputation as “the best human…

Facial expressions

Ask any aquarium director what they want most in life and you’re likely to get some very strange answers but…

Whales

Whales, not Wales, but whales. Neither are really places you want to find yourself in albeit one more fatal than…

Lord Ashcroft

Charles Upham’s Victoria Cross and bar were stolen, alongside many other medals awarded to New Zealand servicemen, from an army…

The Victoria Cross

Before the flak-jacketed John Simpson there was William Howard Russell, a gritty Irish journalist, who pioneered war reporting from the…

Sir Joseph Bazalgette

It was the great stink that started it. July 1858 and London was hot. Hot like Spain. Nice in the…

Ka-CHING!

There was no call, just a note to say Please call sometime, sometime today. It didn’t feel right it felt…