Stories by Petiver

Marie Curie’s Research Papers Are Still Radioactive

A rare condition causes a doctor to experience other people's sensations

The Sun's New Trans-Neptunian Planet (1930)

The ‘great and cursed work’ that was the Encyclopédie

Wild in the Streets: A 24-Hour Field Guide to New York City

How Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking

UT Austin provides free access to more than 22,000 images of library materials

Breaking the Enlightenment Spell

Hiring: The First Librarian of Congress for the Internet Age

The Doctor as Writer

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

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