Stories by Petiver

I Now Pronounce You Legally Null and Void

The Surprising History (and Future) of Fingerprints

How Advertising Shaped the First Opioid Epidemic

How the Manhattan Project’s Nuclear Suburb Stayed Secret

A new book on Renaissance mathematics makes a bold case

The impossibly wide learning of Sabine Baring-Gould

Cupholders Are Everywhere

American Drugs in Egyptian Mummies (2005)

Centaur or fop? How horsemanship made the Englishman a man

Errol Morris on his movie, and long friendship, with Stephen Hawking

The Greenhouse Effect: Eco-friendly glass architecture that incorporates flora

Darwin's Beard and George Eliot's Hands

Don’t Mess with the Birds

The Connections Between Coffee and Biodiversity

Deluxe printing: Antoine Vérard’s 1498 illuminated Merlin

Cryptography: Or the History, Principles, and Practice of Cipher-Writing (1898)

The Long, Strange Legacy of One of the World’s Earliest Fake Mermaids

When Books Read You, a Defense of Bibliomancy

'I really want to find it before I die': why are we so fascinated by lost books?

The humble apron of the 18th century

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