Stories by Hooke

Renaissance Science: the base ten number system

Favourably Arranged

The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700

Galois’ Last Letter (2008)

Earliest known human burial in Africa

If I fits I sits: illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats

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

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