Hello there, this is Alex speaking writing a little announcement here. Most Odd was a little blog and a small idea I started about 13 months ago. It has helped me learn, improved my writing and g...
https://mostodd.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/a-most-odd-announcement/
It spreads like wildfire beneath the skin, the slight prickling sensation of itching. Tiny and innumerable fibres seem to poke through the skin and tiny parasites creep beneath the surface. The u...
https://mostodd.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/morgellons-the-non-existent-epidemic/
Near the dawn of the 19th century medicine advanced inwards. Doctors began once more to diagnose problems with the heart and lungs by placing their ears against the bodies of patients and listeni...
https://mostodd.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/invention-of-the-stethoscope/
You make decisions. How good you are at doing so is irrelevant, what matters is that you make them. You make them in the same way as a bee. But how is that? Decision making is a, decidedly comple...
In 2009, some listeners in received some peculiar signals hailing
https://mostodd.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/television-bouncing-back/
Witley Park lies in the county of Surrey, England. In 1889 it was founded by Whitaker Wright, a man who had made a fortune in the oil business. For himself he constructed a grand house with a the...
https://mostodd.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/underneath-the-lake/
1942, World War II was raging across the land and the oceans too. At this time Britain sent out a call for help, and many Chinese responded. One of these brave or foolish souls was Poon Lim. He w...
https://mostodd.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/wait-and-sea-the-tale-of-poon-lim/
In 2004 some developers planned a shopping complex in the Chinese municipality of Chongqing. As per normal they bought the land and swiftly evicted the 280 home owners, however they met resistanc...
In August 1878 a Union Pacific train was making its rounds through rural Wyoming, America. The day was warm and the steam train pulled along through the uneventful landscape. Meanwhile George Par...
https://mostodd.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/the-skin-of-big-nose-george/
In 19th Century Paris, just as with any other time in Paris, there were many suicides. In Paris, the Seine was a favourite, at a time when most could not swim the large river was often a death se...
https://mostodd.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/the-famous-nameless-face/