Back in the day, I worked with a design agency whose director’s first name was Merriman. At the time I thought this quite odd and...

In 1897, stonemasons and bricklayers traipsed up a hill on the west coast of Scotland, one of the wettest places in Europe, to build the...

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) and of robots in particular is very likely to have a tremendous impact on the job ...

This week, two-hundred and twenty-four years ago, Robden of Solway Firth died. He was just 37 years of age. His lighter-Scots dialect...

In December of 1983 the Italian hill town of Calcata was shocked by the greatest theft in its known history. It was the priest who had...

In 1537, as the Spanish people tucked into patatas bravas for the first time and reflected on Pope Paul’s suggestion that indigenous...

It's 1947. Ferrari and Saab debut their first cars, Edwin Land introduces the world to something called the instant camera, and the first...

On January 5, 1643, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony was still heartily suckling from her bullying mother’s engorged breasts, a woman...

No Man’s Land, the legendary London burial ground of 17th century plague victims, is no longer a legend. Excavations for unwieldy and...

As of Wednesday, at least 530 brands had officially boycotted Facebook, with the intention of forcing Mark Zuckerburg to take a stand...