The secret language of doctors
Why and how the 17th century Portuguese tropical medicine specialist, Aleixo de Abreu, tried to prevent proles from reading his cure for scurvy.
Tag: galicia
Mosquitoes, alcohol and violence
A Catalan children’s song remembered by Francesc Candel; early rave culture on Central America’s eastern seaboard.
Link sink for 30/05/2009
Mid-20th century Ibero-American hits, state-controlled media, the personal and the public.
“Discretion Environment Elegance”
An illegal brothel at Girona Airport.
Link sink for 25/05/2009
Hell, no one reads my Greader feed anyway.
Spanish airport traffic trends
Variation in air traffic numbers throws interesting light on Spain’s problems as it plunges into recession.
Star Trek, the origins
Kalebeul’s investigation into Vosk and the Na’kuhl temporal conduit yields some surprising results.
Marathon day
Three racing results just in.
How can Galicia be a nation if you can’t get there from Brussels?
Centre-periphery logistics and nationhood.
More registered than apparent actual unemployed in Spain
Are Spanish unemployment statistics the result of fraud or incompetence?