[monochrom] The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life

In the days when Jean Piaget and Sigmund Freud dominated thinking about child development, small children were thought to be irrational, incoherent, and solipsistic in their thinking and both easily distractible and unfocused in their awareness of the world. Recent work in developmental psych

[monochrom] Highgate cemetery: the zenith of nineteenth-century landscape design and funerary architecture

Graveyards in 18-century England were overcrowded and body snatchers active. The Victorians revolted against this, and pressed for secure and hygienic resting places for their dead. A radical reform movement oversaw the building of Highgate, eclectic, ostentatious and quirky.

[monochrom] Military Space: The NRO and the Space Shuttle

Between 1982 and 1992, NASA launched 11 shuttle flights with classified payloads, honoring a deal that dated to 1969, when the National Reconnaissance Office—an organization so secret its name could not bee published at the time—requested certain changes to the design of NNASA’s new space