Stories by Hooke

Apple's Folly: Long before the iPhone, the Pippin console flopped hard (2013)

The Strangest Book on the Theory of Computation (2009)

In a new study, those who ate more organic food had fewer cancer diagnoses

Heinlein and Clarke discuss the Moon landings as they happen (2016)

The Jacquard Loom: A Driver of the Industrial Revolution (2016)

The History of Refereeing at Scientific Journals and Funding Bodies

The Galileo Circus is in town

When Televisions Emitted X-Rays

The Complexity of Songs (1977) [pdf]

558M-year-old fossils identified as oldest known animal

“Eat More Onions”: Desperate and massively debatable medical advice from 1918

Single gene mutation may have helped humans become optimal long-distance runners

Inside the American Museum of Natural History’s Hidden Masterpiece (2013)

When Science Was Big (2017)

Tide-Predicting Machine No. 2

Flesh-and-blood Descartes

Origin of the species: where did Darwin's finches come from?

Ancient dreams of intelligent machines: 3,000 years of robots

Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium

The nature of our experience of reality remains elusive

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