Stories by Hooke

Historian Discovers a Prized Galileo Manuscript Was Forged

Cybersecurity in 1989: Looking Back at Cliff Stoll's Classic the Cuckoo's Egg

Why were medieval monks so susceptible to intestinal worms?

The ejector seats that fire through the floor

The Elusive Origin of Zero

Tracing history of early seafarers through genes

Imaginary numbers are real

The elusive truth of Farm Hall

A Soviet scientist dreamed of melting the Arctic with a 55 mile dam (2013)

Ten Percent of the Brain Myth

Ancient DNA at the Edge of the World: Neolithic Lineages in Bronze Age Orkney

Re-analysis of a fossil finds it’s from the earliest vertebrate branch

The Planet Inside: Scientists are probing the secrets of the inner core

About the Reactor

How did a woman with a missing temporal lobe become bilingual?

Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes

Ithacus – A New Concept of Inter-Continental Ballistic Transport (1964) [pdf]

A pilot’s paean to the great cities of the world

Of War and Electric Death: A Brief History of Push-Button Anxiety

Hydroelectricity and Engineered Climate Change in the Atlantropa Project (2016)

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