The More Things Change | Issue 06

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013

This week, a masterpiece is uncovered, and science prevails. April 8, 1820: On a small Aegean island that nobody had previously heard of, a peasant discovered a statue that would subsequently become one of the most famous pieces of ancient Greek art ever. It is now called the Venus de Milo, Read more...

The More Things Change | Issue 05

Posted 6:30pm Sunday 24th March 2013

This week, there is some very bad behaviour and a serious conflict about punctuation. 27 March, 1915: Public health authorities arrested and quarantined Mary Mallon, who is better known as Typhoid Mary, so named because she was the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever. Because of her Read more...

The More Things Change | Issue 04

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013

This week, some extensive travel is involved, and we get a city out of it. 23 March, 1848: After an apparently uneventful three-month journey, the first Scottish settlers arrived in Port Chalmers and founded a city they called Dunedin. The name was derived from the fairly unpronounceable Read more...

The More Things Change | Issue 03

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013

This week, the Internet’s ascent hits a milestone, and scientists continue to claim each other’s ideas. 12 March, 1894: In the small and otherwise unassuming city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Coca-Cola was bottled and sold for the first time. It had originally enjoyed a career as a coca wine, Read more...

The More Things Change | Issue 02

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 3rd March 2013

This week scientific progress abounds, and a cultural icon is born. 6 March, 1869: Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society, which was particularly impressive because he’d left spaces for elements that apparently didn’t exist. The relevant Read more...

The More Things Change | Issue 01

Posted 9:54pm Sunday 24th February 2013

Kia ora and welcome to “The More Things Change,” a sojourn into the coming week’s news per the annals of history. Formative moments of today’s affairs and milestones of the human race will abound, as well as a few things from which people have hopefully learned by now. If nothing else you might pick Read more...