The Learned Pig

Art – Thinking – Nature – Writing

Author: Mansour Chow

  • Finley Styles

    Finley Styles

    Conceptual artist, painter and writer, Finley Styles, was born in Gosport, Hampshire, England on August 15, 1972. The son of market-trader parents, Styles proved academically gifted despite a shoddy school attendance record. From the age of twelve, he would regularly skip high school and, later, 6th form college to look after his parents’ market stall,…

  • Ignaz Semmelweis and Anthropogenic Global Warming

    Ignaz Semmelweis and Anthropogenic Global Warming

    Mortality rates in mothers from childbirth in Europe were shockingly high during the mid-19th century. Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician working in the General Hospital of Vienna, was curious as to why the medical students’ obstetrician clinic had a mortality rate over five times higher than the trainee midwives’ clinic within the same hospital. His…