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Posté dans Hypotheses This in from the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective, happily coinciding with The Recipes Project...

Back in January, I posted about a Korean fecal wine named Tsongsul, which is drunk as a remedy for all manner of ills. But it turns out there's a long tradition of drinking fecal wine in the UK as well. Over at the Recipes Project, a blog about early...

History of science in the last month circled around the 100th anniversary on 7th November of the death of Wallace: Not that Wallace you idiot Alfred Russel Wallace co-discovery of the concept of evolution by natural selection: Alfred Russel Wallace...

Thence with mighty content homeward, and in my way at the Stockes did buy a couple of lobsters, and so home to dinner, where I find my wife and father had dined, and were going out to Hales’s to sit there, so Balty and I alone to dinner, and in the middle...

Embed from Getty Images — Whilst I strongly advocate not poking fun at the medical beliefs and practices of our ancestors, now and again it does no harm to remind ourselves of just how…unusual they could sometimes appear. And so I give you my top ten...