Restoring Mayberry

  Happy New Year, everyone! To all my American friends and family, I'm sorry about the current upheaval, and after everything we've ...

Of the planet’s 7,500 million, about one-thirty-seventh of one percent of one percent come from in or around Ferguson, Missouri, w...

I talked to my neighbour, Angela, about what it was like during the tuberculosis epidemic of the 1950s.

A few weeks ago, I posted a video about the silver linings to this crisis and quarantine. Now that countries are either opening up or announ...

Recently I was able to interview another one of my elderly neighbours -- by phone this time -- and he told me all about the dangers of tuber...

This covers some of the same ground as the article, but I'm hoping people find it useful. Stay safe everyone! https://www.youtube.com...

For those who haven't yet been informed, most of my articles are not moving to the new web site and host of my ongoing projects, Old S...

I think it turned out pretty well.

I have a new project I'll be announcing soon, but first: I mentioned a while ago that the BBC programme QI, former hosted by Stephen...

It’s been an eventful few weeks, but before I wrote about anything else, I wanted to note the passing of my grandfather. A few years ...