There are very good reasons for calling “the most excellent and great sovereign prince Pyotr Alekseyevich, leader of all the Russias” Czar Peter the Great. It is impossible to exaggerate […]
Monthly Archives: September 1996
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With its inevitable link to food and drink, taste is probably the one sense that links health to pleasure more closely than any of the other senses. Eating, sharing meals, […]
This third part of a “Siren Song” special series looks at our sense of sight. It is said that eighty percent of our perception comes from this one sense alone. […]
In 1991, old scars were ripped back open when fighting broke out again in the former Yugoslavia. Five years of ethnic cleansing, war rapes, concentration camps, a quarter of a […]
Much has been written about the atrocities committed over the past five years in the heart of Europe: the concentration camps, war rapes and the ethnic cleansing. Much has also […]
There are very good reasons for calling “the most excellent and great sovereign prince Pyotr Alekseyevich, leader of all the Russias” Czar Peter the Great. It is impossible to exaggerate […]
This second part of a “Siren Song” special series looks at our sense of sound. How would we communicate without speech and laughter even in the digital age? What is […]
By the time Guatemala’s decades-long civil war came to an end in 1996, some 200,000 people had died or disappeared in the violence, most of them by far having been […]