Jerry Radio - Grateful Dead radio station streaming on-demand bootleg concerts in Real Audio

Jerry Radio - Grateful Dead radio station streaming on-demand bootleg concerts in Real Audio also historic and studio out takes, other bands and performers.

Skeptical Inquirer: 'The Devil's footprints': solving a classic mystery

Skeptical Inquirer: 'The Devil's footprints': solving a classic mystery
Sceptical view of the affair mentioned in the previous blog, attributing it to multiple sources but especially "contagion" - a milder form of "mass hysteria", leading to people seeing the same unnatural phenomenon in a wide range of different events (cats' paw-prints, partly melted; hoaxers at work; many other causes). Certainly people are inclined to search out common patterns. But can this explain the speed of diffusion of the view that exceptional forces were at work?

BBC - Devon Features

BBC - Devon Features Mysterious and surprisingly overlooked anniversary this week.

Drug Trade

Drug Trade

Pharmacy, medicine and commerce in early modern Europe - much on early herbals etc - large gallery

BBC - Radio 4 - Tristram Shandy

BBC - Radio 4 - Tristram Shandy

Tristram Shandy is currently being draatised on BBC radio 4, in 15 minutes chunkc. Its a brilliant inroduction for anyone who has trocuble getting into the book, that makes IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELLER look old hat... This is the TS page with a compettion.