The pandemic timeline is plotted below for three separate countries. One I currently work/reside in, one I’m currently on holiday in and one I’m supposed to re-locate to in the near future. I’ll let you work out which is which. [Read More]

William Blake (1757-1827), poet and visionary, author of “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” was an accomplished artist and printmaker, something I knew very little about until recently. Drawing upon Shakespeare (Pity), Dante (The Lovers Whirlwind), personal imagination or historical figures (Newton) he created stunning array of paintings not only... [Read More]

I put this together at the bequest of my father. However, it was difficult to do so because of an incredible amount of notable omissions (no “Like a Rolling Stone”, “Blowin’ in the Wind” or anything from “Blood on the Tracks”), but here ya go (each song accompanied by a... [Read More]

Several years ago, we embarked on a journey to look for mirror neurons in mice, i.e. cells that fire both when an animal performs a certain action and when it observes another doing the same. Our starting point was the seminal work done in non-human primates over the last 30... [Read More]

Konstantin Yuon was an exceptionally gifted Russian painter whom I accidentally uncovered a couple of years ago, while browsing through some early Soviet art. Now I almost feel ashamed I hadn’t known about him before. [Read More]