1931 London Underground map

Double-headed serpent, 15th-16th century from Mexico: This serpent embodies how the Aztec empire flourished and the story of their destruction.
Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum

Chinese Zhou ritual bowl, c. 1100-1000 BC, possibly from the Henan province, China: This bowl made to feed the ancestors documents one of the major transformations in China.

Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum

A row of leather shoes that would have been worn by the crew  of The Mary Rose ship

Johannesburg, South Africa, 3 November 2009: Delegates in traditional Ndebele dress at the launch of the Institute of African Royalty. The lobby group aims to increase the influence of the continent's traditional leaders

None the less, when we look at the practice of psychiatry today, we find that, in the case of the most severe mental illnesses at least, the outcomes obtained are little, if at all, better than those obtained at the end of the 19th century. Astonishingly, cross-cultural comparisons show that patients in the developing world do rather better than those in the industrialised nations, and have a greater chance of recovering from their difficulties.

The discovery that many people live relatively happy lives despite their psychotic experiences raises the possibility that some patients may do best without any treatment.
November 2003. From a lecture by Richard Bentall, professor of experimental clinical psychology at Manchester University.
thisemperor has shared a video with you on December 14 2008
Most if not all galaxies, including our own Milky Way, are believed to have massive black holes at their cores.
It was unclear whether black holes came first, helping create galaxies by pulling matter towards them, or whether they arose in already formed galaxies.
"It looks like the black holes came first," said Dr Chris Carilli, from the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico, who took part in the study.
"The evidence is piling up."
Forskarna kartlade släktbanden mellan drygt 76.000 personer med antingen schizofreni eller bipolär "sjukdom". De kom fram till att "sjukdomarna" har samma genetiska rötter. (from The Lancet)
Astronomers are increasingly listening into stars and other space sounds, according to Dr Tim O'Brien, of Manchester University's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics.
"It's interesting in itself," he said. "It's also scientifically useful."
"All you are really doing when you're collecting stuff from space is that you've got to get that information into your brain so you can think about it," he explained in his podcast. http://www.jodcast.net/
HD49933 was one of the stars observed using the Corot telescope












Am I building a Telescope?

http://soi.stanford.edu/results/sounds.html
frostade "svarvade" glaspelare på verandan av förfallet grått timmerhus i skog (dröm)
diam.11,7x6 cm
B R11/6 Clearview  round glass block
http://www.sevesglassblock.com/pedonabili.html