Tag: history
From ‘arse-ropes’ to ‘flying venom’, a history of how we have come to talk about viruses and medicine
Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND
Symptom, virus, epidemic, quarantine.
We’ve become used to these terms in 2020. But the “COVID-19 vocabulary” might have been very different had it not...
Sunday essay: who was Jeanne Barret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe?
A modern portrait of Jeanne Barret disguised as a man,
based on the author’s interpretation. Timothy Ide, Author provided
In 1765, a young, peasant woman...
Australia’s drive-ins: where you can wear slippers, crack peanuts, and knit ‘to your heart’s content’
Picture: cinematreasures.org
We have seen many changes in Australian’s consumption of media during isolation.
There has been an increase in television viewing; cinemas were forced to close (although some have...
History repeats itself. That’s bad news for the 2020s
When there are too many elites in a society, competition for power makes
existing problems worse. Francisco Goya / Wikimedia
What will happen in the...
A scope as big as humanity can conjure: the Terracotta Warriors & Cai Guo-Qiang
Installation view of Cai Guo-Qiang’s Murmuration (Landscape)
2019 (detail) Realised in Dehua, Fujian. province and Melbourne, commissioned
by the NGV. Proposed acquisition supported...
POTATO JACK
Potato Jack often left home without his jacket on. His mum warned him he’d catch his death, but she was wrong. Just like she...