by Lucille Turner | Jan 9, 2020 | History and Fiction
One day, in 1514, a modest Polish physician and scholar named Nicolaus Copernicus dared to suggest that everyone had the wrong idea about how the universe was arranged. Most people still believed the Earth was flat and stationary, so to convince people that in fact it...
by Lucille Turner | Jan 20, 2018 | History and Fiction
The word prophecy goes back a long way. It has its roots in the astronomy and astrology of ancient Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilisation. Almost as soon as we learned how to write, we learned how to prophesy. Later still, the ‘gift’ of prophecy was harnessed by...
by Lucille Turner | Apr 23, 2016 | Art
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...
by Lucille Turner | Apr 6, 2016 | Art, Science
The world finds polymaths worrying. Those who are good at everything are usually bullied, toppled from their pedestals, and criticised. Look at Socrates, Aristotle and Newton. All were criticised, even persecuted at some point in their lives. Aristotle once said,...
