Sunday March 4, 1860 -- "This day, a lunatic, named Wheedon, was caught and taken back to the Northern Ohio lunatic Asylum from whic...

Some time ago I wrote a blog post about my first trip to an asylum . A regular reader of my blog posted a comment . In part, she wrote:...

The Kepler Project, launched in 2009, has discovered 2,299 planets (and counting). I love this graphic view of what has been found. We hav...

Hawthornden State  Hospital A couple of years ago I wrote a blog entry about my first visit to a state run psychiatric facility. It wa...

Can't you just imagine horse drawn carriages and early cars dropping off future inmates, patients, and residents of the Tewksbury A...