Stories by Petiver

In the Middle Ages, the Upper Class Went Nuts for Almond Milk

Asthma and the Civil Rights Movement

The Case for Not Being Born

Scientists Identify a Third Orangutan Species

Arsenic and Old Leeches

What Do We Do with Our Dead?

What Sewing Samplers Tell Us About Women’s Lives from the 17th to 19th Centuries

The Mystery Hiding in the Cracks of a 17th-Century Painting Has Been Revealed

“Peer review” is younger than we think

Collecting the World by James Delbourgo – The Life of Hans Sloane

Hilary Putnam’s most surprising philosophical shift began at home

Human Forms in Nature: Ernst Haeckel’s Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath

The Great Man Paradox

The dwarfs of our vocabulary

Stargazing: The Invention of Celebrity, 1750–1850

Heretical Things Statistics Tell Us About Fiction

How Social Norms Are Like Chili Peppers

Paradise Possible

Genomes of straight-tusked elephants

Medieval Scholars Believed in the Possibility of Parallel Universes

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