The astronomer, Professor David Peck Todd (1855-1939), will probably go down in history as the husband of Mabel Loomis Todd, the mistress o...

Reading books on subjects that you're not interested in is, in itself, pretty interesting. Recently I read two books about Draughts (or ...

Last Sunday I went to a longer than usual life drawing session with a single four hour pose. My plan was to keep redrawing the same thing to...

While reading about the history of mathematics in Japan I found a mathematical sequence which, for reasons I do not know, happens to contain...

On the 3rd May 1875 a steamship, the Kynance was rammed in "thick weather" at four in the morning off St Ive's Head by an unid...