The Incredible String Band’s Wee Tam and The Big Huge was released as a double album in November, 1968, its name an allusion to someone looking up at the stars and becoming aware of the vastness of the universe.

In the 18th century thousands of poor women left newborn babies in London’s Foundling Hospital, believing that this would be best for them.

It is said that the 9th century Chinese Chan master Joshu responded to a monk’s question about whether or not a dog has Buddha-nature with the single word ‘Mu!’, and that his answer became one of Zen’s most famous koans.

It is heartening to see that Rose Wylie, at an age when most people have long since retired from the fray, has a new exhibition in a major New York gallery.

These curious and enigmatic objects from India, variously known as ‘sectarian body stamps’, ‘chhappa’, and ‘tika jali’, are used by Hindu Vaishnavite devotees (and sometimes Shaivites) to express loyalty to their deities and to transfer to themselves some of the gods’ power and beneficence.