Stories by Petiver

We Need More ‘Useless’ Knowledge

The Factious, High-Drama World of Bird Taxonomy

Walt Disney's Dinosaurs: The Story of the Rite of Spring

“Other” Televisions at the New York World's Fair (1995) [pdf]

Medieval books reveal the extreme methods with which artists achieved their reds

Restoring tropical forests from the bottom up

Crafting the Koran

The Mystery of the World's Least American Cactus

Socrates to Euthyphro: three strikes and you are out

Really big numbers

Little Things: The outsized pleasures of the very small

For Ben Franklin’s Birthday, His First Piece of Printing Reappears

A Meeting of the Fern Society

An exhibition to commemorate 75 years since the first human trials of penicillin

Just how smart is an octopus?

How can existentialist philosophy help with the anxiety and dread of fatherhood?

The First Female Doctor in Britain Spent 56 Years Disguised as a Man

Behind the Scenes with the World's Top Feather Detective

What I learned about China by searching for the world’s rarest bird

Around the World in Bottom Pot

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