Today I learned there is a small kingdom called Boomeria outside of Santa Cruz, California. Yes, you read that last sentence correctly. The King, also known as Mr. Preston Boomer, has been teaching physics and chemistry at San Lorenzo Valley High School for over fifty years when he’s not busy...
My grandfather had perfect eyesight until the day he died, unfortunately he did not pass that gene to me as I’ve recently had to start wearing glasses. Oh well. It’s not the end of the world. I can still see the Stichting Nationaal Brilmuseum, or the National Museum of Spectacles,...
As someone who has poor blood (anemia), I think I might pick up some Blood Purifier next time I’m at the chemist. But I’ll probably be too tired to go. Seen at the Streetlife Museum in Hull, England.
Any film or book set in Bangkok is usually about some tourist dude who gets tied up with drugs and some underground gang is after him and then he ends up in a dirty, overcrowded prison with cockroaches laying eggs in his skin aka the Bangkok Hilton. This all sounds...
I’ve been pretty quiet on the blog these last few months. Sorry about that. You know, life…it happens. In case you were interested, one annoying thing that happened recently - I cracked my phone twice in a 48 hour period, which I didn’t think was possible. I had to replace...
Wow! October is right around the corner, which can only mean one thing. It’s almost time for my annual attempt to highlight spooky museums and historic places, like the “Most Haunted House in Sweden” and Italy’s Serial Killer Museum for example. So in order to get you people ready for...
Due to the small number of cadavers available for anatomical study in British medical schools during the early 19th century, many criminals committed grave-robbing, and even murder, to make some money. One such infamous case was the serial killer duo of Burke and Hare. Irish immigrants who lived in Edinburgh,...
Feb 5 in 1909 Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announced the creation of Bakelite, the world’s first synthetic plastic. And the world has never been the same since. The scientist was already a millionaire thanks to the sale of his photographic paper patent to Kodak, but phenol-formaldehyde (the not-so nice name...
A set of sixty miniature heads for the use of phrenology; Manchester, England; ca. 1831. Science Museum, London Phrenology is a pseudoscience that originated with German physician Franz Joseph Gall and his colleague, Johann Kaspar Spurzheim. Phrenologists believed that the shape and size of various areas of the brain and...
London’s Garden Museum (formerly the Museum of Garden History) offers exhibitions and programs on gardens and garden design. It’s located in a former parish church. I think Britain is the perfect place for a museum devoted to gardens. All that rain helps the flowers grow.
