Month: May 2016
The technological inventiveness of the Industrial Revolution extended to mental health inventions intended to shock and startle the mad back to their senses. From revolving patients at 100 rotations …
An 1847 annual report for Aberdeen Lunatic Asylum shows various causes of insanity in the 19th century. These were split into two categories, which was fairly typical – physical …
During the time of the medieval Black Death, the city of London published weekly statistics of people who’d died that week and from what cause. As you’d expect, “plague” …
In supernatural burials, The dangerous dead were buried face down, bricks shoved in their mouths, staked, nailed or decapitated. Born out of wedlock, unbaptized, conceived during a holy time, …
The Top 10 New Species list is compiled annually by ESF’s International Institute for Species Exploration (IISE). Established in 2008, the list highlights discoveries that are made even as …
The Recent controversy over trans people and bathroom use exposes a subject we usually keep a lid on – the humble toilet. The practice of gender-segregated pooping and peeing as …
The Rocket Girls started out as a group of “computers” at the Jet Propulsion Lab. Using only paper, a pencil, and their minds they were responsible for all the …
