Stories by Hooke

W. B. O’Shaughnessy and the Introduction of Cannabis to Modern Western Medicine

The Fourteen Who Forgot

Victorian asthma cigarettes: who was Dr Batty? (2016)

The Magic of Keith Thomas (2012)

Can We Bring Back the Passenger Pigeon?

An insider’s tale of how biography works

How Things Hang Together

Kenneth Arrow and the golden age of economic theory

A Renaissance Artist-Engineer Icon – Vitruvian Man

Opium, Empire, and India

The Subjective Effects of Nitrous Oxide (1882)

Why Japan’s Rail Workers Point at Things

How many great minds does it take to invent a telescope?

The Beautiful TI-108

The Hollywood Exec and the Hand Transplant That Changed His Life

Beyond Silent Spring: An Alternate History of DDT

Bashford Dean and the Development of Helmets and Body Armor During World War I

Arthur Coga’s Blood Transfusion (1667)

Why Do We Have Blood Types? (2014)

What does it mean to be human? Analysing the genetics of ancient humans

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