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Leonardo and The Third Eye

We take our eyes for granted. How often do we try to imagine what life would be like if we lost our sight? But one aspect of our eyesight we often overlook (sorry) is our peripheral vision. In case you’re wondering what peripheral vision is, try keeping your head...

Leonardo, the Dyslexic Visionary

Do you know anyone who is dyslexic? How about Jamie Oliver, Steven Spielberg, Richard Branson? All successful people, and all able to defy what many perceive as a handicap, but which is really just a state of mind, and sometimes an advantageous one. It was around the...

Why all the fuss with Mona Lisa?

  Knowing who Mona Lisa was does not answer the questions that persist; if anything, it augments them. In recent years art historians have accepted that the sitter for the Mona Lisa portrait was Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a silk merchant from Florence, but...