Stories by Petiver

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

A Guide to the Breads of India

A Book Unfinished: Paracelsus in Hand-Press Sheets

The Soil Depletion Crisis: A tragic episode from the 19th century

Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple? (2008)

What the Trees Say

Freud’s Discontents

Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence

Deep in New Zealand

Bringing the Drugstore Home: An Interview with Deanna Day

A Book by Its Cover: The strange history of books bound in human skin

Animal Minds: The new anthropomorphism

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