
The Flying Boy Experiment— in which scientists electrocuted children for entertainment and to demonstrate the power of the new discovery. This was one of the milder experiments.
From Electricity: The Spark of Life at the Wellcome.

The Flying Boy Experiment— in which scientists electrocuted children for entertainment and to demonstrate the power of the new discovery. This was one of the milder experiments.
From Electricity: The Spark of Life at the Wellcome.

Detail from Graveyard in the Tyrol, John Singer Sargent, 1914.

Minerva. Roman, 2nd century. “Found” on the Esquiline Hill. Helmet by Carlo Albacini 1783. British Museum.

While a student at the Slade, Augustus John would rip up and discard his sketches. Another student pulled them out of the trash and compiled albums out of the remnants. Weird; but weirder still, the albums are on display in the UCL Art Museum.


My pedestrian commute through central London often takes me across the UCL campus, where I always take a moment to say hello to Jeremy Bentham.

Fortnum & Mason. Not coeliac safe, but awfully pretty.