Stories by Petiver

A taste of Brazil: How guaraná soda became a national icon

May He Sweat Copiously: A doctor must practice

Glory or Gravity? John Hutchinson and Isaac Newton

A Wiser Sympathy: Theorizing plant intelligence in the nineteenth century

Monotreme Dreams

Rocks of Ages

“Let us Calculate”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination (2016)

Shaking Ordinary Ice (Hard) Transformed It into Something Never Seen Before

Illusory Wealth: Victor Dubreuil’s Cryptic Currencies

‘The One’: Platonic particles and waves of history

The Problem with Silent Spring Environmentalism

‘Endless Flight’ Review: The Vision and Anguish of Joseph Roth

A Canaanite’s wish to eradicate lice on an inscribed ivory comb from Lachish [pdf]

Lobster and snow crab fisheries search for alternative baits

Shattered by Nazi Bombs, a Fossil’s Lost Copies Are Just Being Found

A treasure hunt for microbes in Chile’s Atacama desert

The Toxic History of Color

The day the dinosaurs died (2019)

New study reveals complex identity of ancient Britons

The Computer in the Aegean

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