After keeping fans engaged on social media in recent years, indie quizzer Danny Gottschalk, the brains behind Phrenology, is once again dishing up pub trivia in the flesh — and the best place to ...

A historian and sociologist of science re-examines the “posture panic” of the last century. You’ll want to sit down for this.

MP says trade in remains is ‘gross violation of human dignity’, as skulls from Pitt Rivers collection removed ...

Photo Credit: Shutterstock. Phrenology, popular in the 19th century, purported that personality traits and mental abilities were based on the shape and size of bumps on the skull. Developed by ...

It's illegal there to practice "occult arts" - defined as "fortune telling, astrology, phrenology, palmistry, clairvoyance, mesmerism, spiritualism, or any other practice or practices generally ...

In the classical music world, a profession exists that feels as quaint as phrenology or book-binding – piano tuning. In the ...

A long debunked science, phrenology espoused the doctrine that a person's character, as concealed in the brain, was revealed by the shape of the skull. By 1846 the twin crazes of phrenology and ...

The Victorians believed that the shape and size of the skull could reveal details about a person’s demeanour. Now it’s been put to the test.

Octagons still exist, especially in the older neighborhoods of the northeast. But they are all vestiges of a discredited fad that we have discarded, much like Orson Fowler’s phrenology theories.

The Victorians believed that the shape and size of the skull could reveal details about a person’s demeanour. Now it’s been put to the test.

Offering a fun take on phrenology, Ebern Designs uses classic Sailor Jerry-style tattoo motifs to add some edge to the heads. Together they weigh 1kg, which should be enough mass to keep books in ...