by M. W. Wollacott | Mar 7, 2022 | Leonardo da Vinci, Tomes & Tombs
Dietary advice is ten a penny at the moment. Scientific studies which cannot be replicated are taken as gospel until contradicted and every celebrity has some goopy idea or other. So it is no surprise some are going back to long dead greats to see what their diets...
by M. W. Wollacott | Mar 7, 2022 | Leonardo da Vinci, Tomes & Tombs
I’m a light sleeper – it takes a while to get to sleep and I’m woken up easily during the night. Plus I wake up at the time I was born – 3:15am most nights. If only I’d been born at 3:15pm! Like many people, I’ve often wondered how to make my sleep...
by M. W. Wollacott | Mar 7, 2022 | Leonardo da Vinci, Tomes & Tombs
As a child, I struggled with my writing. It was not just spelling, but writing in general. I am left-handed in a world of righties – copying others is difficult when you can’t do it their way. Plus, I constantly ran the risk of smudging my writing and getting...
by M. W. Wollacott | Mar 7, 2022 | Atlantis, Atlantis, Philosophy, Plato, Tomes & Tombs
The Richat structure in Mauritania is the closest known match to Plato’s description of Atlantis. There is no positive evidence to directly tie the two together or of an ancient civilization in the Richat, but it is in the right place, matches the geography of Plato’s...
by M. W. Wollacott | Mar 7, 2022 | Atlantis, Atlantis, Philosophy, Plato, Tomes & Tombs
I’ve known for a long time that Plato discusses Atlantis and its fall. However, I never knew the context. After watching some videos on Atlantis theory, I decided to grab a copy of Timaeus and Critias and have a look at what Plato actually says about the city. Plato...
by M. W. Wollacott | Mar 7, 2022 | Human Evolution
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Tolkien was thinking of a low hillock crowned by a great tree probably somewhere in his native Warwickshire. After his philological discovery he came to the conclusion there were three hobbit races – the harfoots,...
