Stories by Petiver

Taarof

Head Space: Behind 10,000 Years of Artificial Cranial Modification

500 years ago, a German abbot wrote a book on communication with spirits (1998)

Medieval Bargain Books

Japanese Falconry

Exploring the warship Mars, the pride of Sweden's 16th-century navy (2014)

In 1962, a college student answers an ad: “Mortuary Assistant required”

On the front lines of humanity’s high-tech war on rats

The Emerald Triangle: a year in the lives of California’s marijuana farmers

The Birth of the Weather Forecast

Finnegans Wake: the book the web was invented for

Better Call Caravaggio: Vince Gilligan Borrows from the Baroque

Forgotten Failures of African Exploration

Cigarettes, damn cigarettes and statistics

Laplacian Sigils: William George Armstrong’s Electrical Discharge Experiments

Carbon Capture: climate change and conservation

Anglo-Saxon antibiotics are just the start – bioprospecting in the past

Fruit Mutiny: Whither the breadfruit?

The PhD Factory (2011)

The Inhuman Anthropocene

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