Dreaming Boudica’s Gods: a book review and reflection

Some books walk into my life as though my reading them is inevitable and necessary for the functioning of the universe. Maybe a tad melodramatic, but that’s how I felt at the time when Dreaming the Eagle appeared before me, in my old school hall one evening at a talk by the author herself. I

Thoughts after Stonehenge – Lost Memories

Watching the BBC documentary Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed tonight brought back to my mind some ideas that have bothered me before, concerning such things as Neolithic monuments. As explained by Prof Alice Roberts, the predecessor to Stonehenge was constructed around 3000 BCE in Wales, and later moved to Salisbury Plain, England. The megaliths were

Maillardet’s marvellous yet creepy Automaton

A neuroscience article I was reading earlier briefly mentioned, whilst discussing automatism in criminal law, an old machine made by Swiss mechanician Henri Maillardet known as Maillardet’s automaton. It piqued my interest, so I googled it. Take a look at what I found out. Just from this photo, it’s spooky enough already. Built around the