Blessed Days of Anaesthesia
Imagine a world without pain relievers…
Imagine a world without pain relievers…
What Rebecca has been reading.
Donald Ritchie looks at how the Presidential Inauguration moved from the East Front of the Capitol to the West Front.
Ammon looks at encyclopedias.
The podictionary word of the week is “boggle”.
Scotland: A Very Short Introduction author Rab Houston talks about the history of Burns Suppers.
Simon Morrison shares the story of the premier of Prokofiev’s ballet “Romeo and Juliet,” in which Romeo and Juliet live happily ever after.
Anatoly Liberman looks at the oddest English spellings.
Jerry Coyne says Happy 200th Birthday to Charles Darwin.
Ben looks at inaugural geography.
A look at how Islamic culture views the Nobel Prize.
A look at our brains.
A look at A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.
What Cassie’s been reading this week.
Ammon Shea looks at who wrote the first American dictionary.
A glimpse into Gérard Prunier’s newest book on Congo and the Rwandan Genocide.