Stories by Petiver

Brasília at Midnight

How an obscure mycologist left her mark on fungi

How Exhaustion Became a Status Symbol

It Makes No Sense to Judge Groups of People by Their Histories of Invention

The Card Maker Who Brought the Joker into the World

Six Centuries of Secularism

War and Planets: Astronomical Tables in the History of Science

Over 600 years ago, Fiji was dramatically affected by changing sea levels

Where are the Scriptoria? (2013)

An 18th Century North African Travelling Physician's Handbook

The all-conquering Wikipedia?

A new generation of doctor writers is investigating the mysteries of medicine

Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish populations have been rising since the 1960s. Why?

A Brief History of Drowning

The new book 'The Other Slavery' will make you rethink American history

The Baked Possum

Humans are the highest energy apes, making us smarter but also fatter

Buddhist Sculptures Discovered in Ruins of Ancient Shrine

Text Mining the History of Medicine

To Save Something, We Have to Eat It

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