I’m working on a new book right now, and as part of my research, I have enrolled in an online course on forensics. My professor is one Roderick Bates, an organic chemist and associate professor at Nanyang Technological University in… Read More
Yesterday in the New York Times there was an article about a growing fad in New Orleans and elsewhere for propping dead people in life-like poses. The idea is that loved ones who attend the wake may have one last… Read More
Have you ever wondered why almost no one smiles in old-fashioned photographs?
In 1839, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre invented a way to create a permanent image, using a camera. The first daguerreotypes required the subject to remain still for fifteen to thirty… Read More