June 2005
The Pharmaceutical Journal: Freud, Sherlock Holmes and Coca Cola — the cocaine connection
"I gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career."
Science Daily: Australia's Megafauna Coexisted With Humans
Humans and "gigantic three tonne wombat-like creatures", amongst others, co-existed for 15,000 years.
May 2005
'First platypus' still intact
what happened to that original specimen that so famously bamboozled the experts?
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Bioprospecting Historical Texts
A vast, untapped source of biomedical information may be sitting on the shelves of old libraries.
April 2005
Andreas Broeckmann: A Visual Economy of Individuals
PhD thesis on The Use of Portrait Photography in the Nineteenth-Century Human Sciences
Joseph Amato: On Foot - A History of Walking. NYU Press, 2004
large-scale and small-scale stories of what was man's first mode of travel—walking.
Mithridates
the bookish blog of Mithridates, King of Pontus
The Independent: Deciphering the Oxyrhynchus Papyri
by 1 otherIn the past 4 days alone, classicists have discovered writing by Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod, and others, which had been lost for millennia
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Book arson 'a Taleban-style' act
Officials of a prestigious library in India's north-eastern state of Manipur say nearly 145,000 books have been destroyed in an arson attack.
The Genographic Project - Human Migration, Population Genetics, Maps, DNA
"a landmark study of the human journey"
The Waitt Family Foundation--National Geographic's Genographic Project
"an ambitious global project whose goals are twofold: to capture a snapshot of human history locked within our DNA before it disappears forever, and to highlight the untold stories and uncertain future of indigenous peoples worldwide."
Acoustic Radar.
Acoustic location - detecting aircraft by picking up engine noise. Some bizarre images...
March 2005
History of the Study of Locomotion
theorists of movement
Historic Cities: Maps & Documents
by 1 otherThis site contains maps, literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic cities
Kamikaze Images
This web site explores diverse portrayals and perceptions of the young men who carried out suicide attacks near the end of World War II.
New Scientist Breaking News - Brain reconstruction hints at 'hobbit' intelligence
Analysis of the diminutive cranium of Homo floresiensis - a tiny hobbit-like human that lived in Indonesia just 13,000 years ago - confirms it as a unique species and reveals remarkably advanced features for such a small brain.
February 2005
Science in the 19th Century Periodical
searchable index to the science content of 16 19th C. periodicals
Linda Hall Library History of Science Collection
digitised full texts of some rare history of science books
April 2004
Modern Opium History
The story of opium, from 1800 to the present day.
March 2004
Gallica Anthologie
by 1 otherAnthologie des collections : Mille trésors de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France
