Mike Jay's Stranger Than Fiction features 24 essays "exploring the twilight zones of history, culture and the human mind" (available in paperback and Kindl...
Mike Jay is perhaps my favourite writer on strange and obscure history: his excursions into rarely traveled back roads of conspiracy theory, mind control, drugs...
Back in March science Writer and blogger Ed Yong gave a TED talk on the subject of parasites and the fascinating ways in which they can sometimes "subvert and o...