Indonesia

This week on Sexy Beasts, we get a little head. And by that I mean we tackle the decapitated flying entrails witch known as the LEYAK. Indonesia’s finest black magic woman, be nice to her and she might bring you luck but if you cross her…

Not many people outside military or medical personnel know of the devastating effects a grenade can have on the body. We may imagine it or read about it or even see it in a bloodless explosion in a Captain America movie but still its…

Indonesia is no stranger to gory horror films. In 1981 it produced the cult favourite Mystics in Bali where a German woman fights off floating heads with their guts still attached. In 2008 the Mo Brothers – Timo Tjahjanto and Kimo Stamboel…

The holy love child of the Coen brothers and Sergio Leone, Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts is the type of fresh inventive genre take that winds up an art-house classic. With the sweltering-hot countryside of modern day Indonesia…

In October 2016, Amitav Ghosh wrote a very long feature in the Guardian asking a very simple question: where is the fiction about climate change? In the years since, merely typing in “climate change fiction” brings up several helpful lists,…

The summer of 1816 has an unusual claim to fame. It is known as The Year Without a Summer. How did it come by this unusual moniker? The answer lies in the events of the previous year. In 1815 Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa in the…

I am a zoologist and conservationist. Most of my short career has been focused in Southeast Asia, namely Indonesia. Indonesia is endowed with breath-taking landscapes and rainforests bursting with diverse wildlife. Over the past few…

The woman who would become famous as Mata Hari, the “Eye of the Dawn”, was born in 1876 as Margaretha Geertruida Zelle. Her parents, Adam and Antje, were middle-class but prosperous Dutch people, living in Leeuwarden. Her father had a hat…

Y you should stop smoking A paper just published in Science found that smoking results in men losing their Y chromosome in blood cells. This study carried out in the USA compared the DNA of men who smoked and those who did not at the…

I've been meaning to write some articles for HeadStuff for a while now but it seems that I just kept getting bogged down in writing as part of my PhD research. However, with the publication of my first paper from my research, I figure this…