Stories by Hooke

Little Foot’s shoulders hint at how a human-chimp common ancestor climbed

1700 Cascadia Earthquake

Genetic Mapping

John Glenn popularized the word “glitch” (2019)

Weary of Work

The Challenges of Animal Translation

Baked meteorites yield clues to planetary atmospheres

AI-based writer identification for the unknown scribes of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Boirault Machine

Brainwaves and other strange sounds from Alvin Lucier’s lab (2014)

Ray Bradbury and the Last Global Pandemic

Pierre Janet and the budget of life

Poetry in the Abstract: What happens when scientists write haiku?

Let us now praise tiny ants

The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever

Why was cycling not included in the ancient Olympics? (2004) [pdf]

Greeks Bearing Gifts: tracking the labyrinthine path of technology’s progress

Theory suggests blobs of material in Earth's mantle are remnants of protoplanet

Elizabeth Loftus Changed the Meaning of Memory

The Mathematical Pranksters Behind Nicolas Bourbaki

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