Thomas Edison
The man who disappeared
In September 1890 a Frenchman called Louis Le Prince left his brother in Dijon and boarded a train to Paris,…
Putting the sun in the shade
About a century ago, scientists started meddling with an unfamiliar force of nature and the rest of us were terrified.…
Long life
Most people, when asked if they would rather be deaf or blind, say they would rather be deaf. I would…
America’s war on sleep
The relentless rise of ‘you snooze, you lose’
