The Sherlock Holmes Museum is situated at 221B Baker Street, London, one of the world’s most famous addresses.

How to get here

Finding one of the most famous addresses in the world couldn’t be easier. We’re just a few minutes’ walk from Baker Street station on the London Underground, as well as easily accessible by bus, or by mainline train (Marylebone Station is just 5 minutes’ walk away).

Underground: We’re just a few minutes’ walk from Baker Street station on the Bakerloo, Jubilee, Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith and City Lines.

Bus: Bus numbers 13, 74, 189 and 274 all stop within a few feet of our front door while numbers 113, 18, 27, 30, 205 and 453 all stop nearby on Marylebone Road.

Train: The nearest mainline train station is Marylebone Station which is served by Chiltern Railways. London Paddington is also only a few stops away on the Bakerloo line.

Car: Limited parking can be found nearby at 170 Marylebone Road and Britannia Parking at the Landmark Hotel London, 222 Marylebone Road.

Opening hours

Monday-Tuesday: closed

Wednesday through Sunday: 10 a.m.—5 p.m.

Tickets

Adults—£15

Concessions (老年优待票)—£12

Children (under 16)—£10

Children (under 6)—Free

Doctors told us that our son, Matti, had a rare disease affecting his kidneys. We were in complete shock.

One of us would need to provide a kidney for him. This situation could have completely thrown us, but we decided to take it as it comes. We were in the hospital for a month and have to come back quite often.

Between the ages of 18 months, Matti was stable with the help of medication. Without warning, the function of Matti’s kidneys went downhill very quickly, before failing completely — what the doctors warned us of at birth.

Initially, we hoped dialysis would only be a couple of months until the kidney transplant happened, but the outbreak of COVID-19 mean I that it was put on hold.

As is known, it was tough trying to keep track of how much water he could take in. He was limited to 600 ml a day as required, but the restriction felt especially hard over the summer. In general, Matti was pretty accepting this — but there were moments when, understandably, he hated it. There were moments when we all got frustrated, I can’t deny.

Stefan and I had decided that he’d be the one to give Matti a kidney. Stefan was rejected, leaving me to be considered. I was nervous that the doctors would discover something that wouldn’t work with me too. But, thankfully, I was a match. I could barely explain the relief I fell when I woke up, to hear that the kidney had made it over to Matti safely.

Of course, there follow a lot of medications, and a specialist comes to bring a bit of fun to what can be a boring day. He is invaluable and occupies my son so that I can grab a coffee and a break. What I have learned is that nothing is more important that health.

Many of us check labels to ensure the food we buy is healthy. But how many of us check what we eat, is produced in a way that benefits the environment? Some fanning methods actually help reduce carbon emissions, for instance by removing carbon from the atmosphere and improving the quality of the soil. Many smaller-scale farmers use these “regenerative farming” practices, but big food companies are also getting on board.

So what is “regenerative farming” and how can you tell if the food is produced in this way? Asking questions about the fanning methods used to produce food may not provide the precise answers you want (unless you talk to the farmers). But interest in and knowledge about regenerative farming are growing, and shops may he able to investigate and come back to you.

How has produce been grown?

Farmers using a regenerative approach typically avoid or minimize tilling (犁地) to protect the structure of the soil and its microorganisms. These microorganisms are vital for soil fertility and protect crops from pests and disease. Good soil structure also helps to prevent flooding and pollution. Regenerative farmers also typically plant a groundcover of herbs, wildflowers and grasses. These add nitrogen (氮) to the soil, encourage wildlife and pollinators, help prevent erosion and flooding, and control weeds.

Have pesticides (杀虫剂) and artificial fertilizers (肥料) been used?

Regenerative farmers may maximize crop diversity and rotate crops to reduce the need for chemical inputs and support wildlife, because artificial fertilizers are responsible for about one percent of all global, carbon dioxide.

How has the product been transported?

How it is transported is important, and food air miles can have 100 times the carbon footprint of miles of transportation by sea. If fruit and vegetables aren’t in season when you buy them, try to find the miles if they have been flown in or grown in a hothouse heated by fossil fuels. “If you can’t buy direct from a local producer, and obviously many people can’t, you need to do some research,” a farmer says, “Try to make your supply chain as short as possible.”

What have the animals been fed?

There are environmental benefits to being grass-fed, and feeding animals imported grains may be bad for the environment.

A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid (小行星) is preparing to launch this week. The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will lift off at 10:20 p. m. PT on November 23, 2021 aboard a Space X Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Live coverage of the event will air on NASA TV and the agency’s site. But the true test for this asteroid deflection (偏转) technology will come in September 2022, when the spacecraft reaches its destination, to see how it affects the motion of a near-Earth asteroid in space.

The mission target is Dimorphos, a small moon orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos. This will be the agency’s first full-scale demonstration of this type of technology on behalf of planetary defense. It also will be the first time that humans have changed the motion of a solar system body in a measurable way, according to the European Space Agency.

It’s the perfect time for the DART mission to occur. Didymos and Dimorphos will be relatively close to Earth—within 11 million kilometers—in September 2022. The spacecraft will come speeding in at about 24,140 kilometers per hour, targeting Dimorphos, said Nancy Chabot, DART coordination leader at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

The mission’s aim is to deliberately crash into Dimorphos to change the asteroid’s motion in space, according to NASA. This collision will be recorded by CubeSat, a companion cube satellite provided by the Italian Space Agency. It’s the Italian Space Agency’s first deep space mission.

The briefcase-size CubeSat will travel on DART and then be moved from it before impact (撞击) so it can record what happens. Three minutes after the impact, the CubeSat will fly by Dimorphos to capture images and video. The video of the impact will be streamed back to Earth, which should be “pretty exciting,” said Elena Adams, DART mission systems engineer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.