Leonardo Da Vinci
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The market where fame and overhyped art meet
- Art & Design
- November 4, 2014, 01:00
In the museum business – if you can look on it as a business for a moment – it is said that if you want a surefire winner of an exhibition, one tha(...)

A potted history of western culture by infographic
- Technology
- August 14, 2014, 01:00
This wonderful animated infographic from Nature Video is based on a new scholarly paper offering a macroscopic perspective of cultural history. The vi(...)

Left-handers celebrate day of...being left handed
- World
- August 13, 2014
It’s perhaps no more than a gimmicky celebration, but today, August 13th, is devoted to International Left Handers Day – when lefties everywhere get a(...)

Skull picked up in German antique shop crafted by Leonardo da Vinci
- Science
- June 11, 2014, 18:44
A model skull picked up in an antique shop in 1987 turns out to have been crafted by the great Renaissance artist and anatomist Leonardo da Vinci. Che(...)

Cry your eyes out: it might do you some good
- People
- March 7, 2014, 01:00
Video of Bat Kid in San Francisco; a romcom; the heating was broken two weeks ago when it snowed. These are just some of the answers to the questio(...)

Mr Peabody & Sherman
- Film
- February 7, 2014
Well, this sounds like an impressively terrible idea for a family film. The title characters – an urbane dog and his perky adopted human son – first a(...)
Róisín Ingle on ...
- Life & Style
- August 31, 2013, 00:00
I ’m reading an article about how what you wear to drop the children off to school reveals “where you’re at” in life. Big sunglasses and big hair say (...)

Florence tomb opened in search for Mona Lisa
- World
- August 10, 2013, 13:15
Researchers opened a centuries-old Florence tomb in a search for remains that could confirm the identity of the woman whose enigmatic smile Leonardo d(...)