To All the Scents I’ve Loved Before
Perfume is the ultimate con. Here’s a bottle of fragrant water, apply to your pulse points and take a sniff […]
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What Not To Do In Portugal, 1826 Edition
“The Portuguese are not very delicate in their mode of describing any indisposition with which they may have been troubled,”
Facing disease at the Museum of Portuguese Dermatology
“People have heard of La Specola,” the curator of the Museum of Portuguese Dermatology begins, surveying her kingdom of wax
A trio of London museums & three pieces of Jeremy Bentham
Earlier this year, I got on a plane to London for a quick rendezvous with a philosopher. I was excited,
On the trail of Diogo Alves, the 1800s serial killer whose head is kept in a jar
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a city in possession of a faculty of medicine must be in possession
A Coruña and the aquarium at the end of the world
I think we were at the drugstore when I first told my co-traveler about my plans to include a daytrip
Death and taxonomy in Santiago de Compostela
It’s a moody city, Santiago de Compostela, and I say it with a heart full of love and a pair