I bought a map at the station and walked down past La Scala Opera House to the grand cathedral – Il Duomo – in the city centre before walking to Cairoli and catching a tube to Lotto. The weather was super-hot and the walk to San Siro was tough going. I first thought that I woul...
Today I’ll focus not on the ugly news topics of the week—there are plenty; go find them for yourselves if that’s what floats your boat—but on fascinating bits of life in the past, in the form of massive hidden aquifers, cats small enough to curl up on your hand, and—saving th...
It’s much more accurate to refer to it as the First Plague Pandemic, or even Early Medieval Plague. One day I’ll explain in detail on my research blog—but today is not that day. Today let’s just say there’s evidence ofYersinia pestis(the bacterium that causes bubonic—and pneumonic...
Today I’ll focus not on the ugly news topics of the week—there are plenty; go find them for yourselves if that’s what floats your boat—but on fascinating bits of life in the past, in the form of massive hidden aquifers, cats small enough to curl up on your hand, and—saving th...