“The most wonderful of all living structures is the human brain.”
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This was Alesha Sivartha’s philosophical and scientific proposition in a book he wrote and illustrated, called The Book of Life: The Spiritual and Physical Constitution of Man.Published in 1898, the 152-page abridgment contains a collection of peculiar, hand-drawn brain maps that reveal Sivartha’s even more peculiar interpretation of the human brain’s anatomy. As an avid phrenologist, Sivartha sectioned the brain into a series of compartments, each responsible for certain traits and interests, like religion, intellect, and social status.
A mistake in mapping; Hans Island is divided perfectly in half between Canada and Denmark. Both countries claim it as their own. As a contested space in the north, the control of Hans Island could mean the control of the channel in which it sits and majorly affect the inclusion of the Northwest Passage as either being included in Canada’s internal waters or as an internationally recognized free trade route. The control of this tiny island has, for a long time, been somewhat of a joke between these two countries, with the claim of it changing every number of years. Each time doing so the opposing country leaving a bottle of whiskey in its lighthouse for the new captors.
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