Blue Skies, Cream Teas

After a Saturday morning of rain lashing down, the village draws a collective sigh of relief as blue skies start to dominate the western hor...

Composition of the Hunter-Gatherer Diet

I bumped into a fascinating paper today by Dr. Loren Cordain titled "Plant-Animal Subsistence Ratios and Macronutrient Estimations in ...

Vaccinations: They're not just for kids

Now that you are a grown up, you may think that tiny tots are the only ones that have to go to the doctor’s office and get regular vaccinati...

Being Bould

One fine winter's afternoon in 1997 I came across Bould's garage in King's Cliffe in Northamptonshire. It had been closed for so...

The Glooston Terror

It is late afternoon, the brassy sun starting to dip down towards the field edge. But against the lane something stirs under the bark of an ...

A Maine Giant in Medicine and Public Health

A pioneer in medicine, genetics, and public health from Maine died earlier last week. Victor McKusick, MD was born in 1921 in Parkman, Maine...

Birthday Blog

This blog celebrates its first birthday today. What a time I've had. A Dorset Rhubarb Kiosk, a Gloucestershire Fire Extinguisher. An Ess...

The Inuit: Lessons from the Arctic

The Inuit (also called Eskimo) are a group of hunter-gatherer cultures who inhabit the arctic regions of Alaska, Canada and Greenland. They ...

Hurricane season is here: Do you have a plan?

Hello, Dolly! Hurricane season is here. It's a long way from Broadway to the Gulf Coast, but Dolly knows how to perform for a crowd, no ...