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Category Archives: China
An Iconoclastic and Flirtatious Master
I am currently reading Patricia Fara‘s recent book Science: A Four Thousand Year History which cuts an interesting swathe through different cultures, different individuals and different discoveries (sometimes even the same discovery in different places). It is not your average … Continue reading
Posted in book review, China, Desmond Bernal, History of Science, Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen, Patricia Fara
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Psoriasis
Time was when I thought psoriasis was an obscure pharaoh, possibly one of the late and degenerate Ptolemies. Or possibly a small town in Kansas (pop. 207). Until I got it myself.
Posted in China, Cromercrox In China, diet, expresso, gluten, latte, pharaoh, psoriasis, Science Is Vital, The Singing Detective
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