Week in Review, December 8-14

JF Ptak Science Books 

Here are my posts for the second week in December: 

• A Hole in the Mirror--Part of the History of Holes series

• The Daily Addict: Feeding Drug Addicitons in 1937

• How Much Did Athanasius Kircher's IQ Weigh? The Polymathic Genius Alphabet

• Is the Mona Lisa Smile Nothing?

• The Ineffable Delicacy of the Million-Pound Shithammer

• Future of Flight, 1836

• Renaissance Fire Eyes and Solar Faces

• The History of Want: Ads in 1871

• Borges in Reverse--Diary Absolutists of Everything.

• Tech Quiz: The Tooth Telephone? (1880)