The suspicious deaths at the core of "Ghostwalk" occurred in and around Trinity College, Cambridge, during the 17th century, when the plague was at its peak and Isaac Newton was solving every scientific puzzle in sight.
Typed definitions and scientific descriptions of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell appear on a screen at the beginning of each section; there's a particular pleasure in finding that there's no dumbing down in the way information is stated.
I got really into the scientific mechanisms of sight and visual culture, which culminated in studies that focused on communication theory, history, anthropology, hard (military) vs. soft (cultural) politics, the advent of the leisure society and popular culture.
In such situation, two scientific approaches, at first sight opposed, are possible.
In the sleepy Istrian village of Vodnjan – 20 minutes from Pula airport (Ryanair flies from Stansted) – lies the parish church of St Blaise, a sight of much scientific wonderment and the resting place of six mummified saints (Corpi Santi), one dating back to the 12th century.
Hence, Suarez-Kurtz, in his own words, suggests that scientific knowledge should not lose sight of its roots when immersed in the complex and controversial realities of particular historical situations.
If your brain cells are unstimulated by stuffed eagles and dusty models of the solar system, Europe's rich history of scientific discovery and wondrous natural sights is sure to inspire.
Though the public has been kept at a safe distance, this scientific scrum has been in plain sight of museum visitors.
Concurrently with technology advances in genome sequencing there is clearly an understanding in the avian research communities that, with enormous increases in genomic data, we need to ensure that we do not lose sight of the fundamental scientific questions.
So it seemed more than a little odd that the one time I made a sighting worthy of a scientific publication, I was looking out of my living room window.
