In the late 15th and early 16th centuries, the Hall of Five Hundred in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy, was adorned with frescoes by Renaissance artists. In 1504, a government employee named Piero Soderini arranged a competition between Michelangelo [read more...]
One of the most bizarre instances surrounding the study of genetics and genomics is the story of Henrietta Lacks. In 1951, Lacks, a 31-year-old African American woman, was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Without her knowledge or consent, doctors at Johns [read more...]
On 19 May 1536, Anne was beheaded on Tower Green. She protested her innocence until the last, but her final reported words were uncontroversial, “I am come hither to die, for according to the law and by the law I [read more...]
THE DIATOMIST is a short documentary about Klaus Kemp, master of the Victorian art of diatom arrangement. Diatoms are single cell algae that create jewel-like diatom art arrangements. Diatoms, a form of algae, are invisible to the naked eye. But when [read more...]
If we didn't have enough examples of how words change meaning according to the climate of society as time changes, here's another: spinster. Today the word has somewhat of a derogatory meaning, however, the word was simply a legal term, used [read more...]
Let's use a "brain-as-a-big-city" metaphor here to try and better understand our Fluorescent Green Brains in Mice from Outer Space friends better. Imagine your brain is a big, bustling city filled with different types of workers. There are the construction [read more...]
Have you ever wondered why the world is the way it is? Why there always seems to be war and conflict, despite the fact that we as a species have made so much progress in other areas? The answer is [read more...]
Researchers are now looking into an intriguing connection between two fascinating and ever increasing environmental anomalies: the punch cloud in the sky, and the sink hole below in the earth. Punch hole cloud Could the punch clouds be [read more...]
In an undercover laboratory in Vancouver, scientists have been slaving away for the find of the century. It’s not a cure for cancer, or even a way to conquer death. This research is a lot more sinister. Scientists have found [read more...]
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