Stories by benbreen

Antidotes for Melancholy in Early Modern England

The Mysterious, Deep-Dwelling Microbes That Sculpt Our Planet

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought

The Mind Is a Metaphor: About the Database

A Benchmark for Learning to Translate a New Language from One Grammar Book

Diagraming sentences in the 19th century

Oulipo's use of the Tohoku paper (2014)

The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece

Centuries of Childhood: The history of childhood is one of multiplicity

Francis Ford Coppola's "Godfather Notebook"

Edo-period teens tackling math's toughest problems

In the Ruins of Edward Gibbon's Masterpiece

Beginning the End: In the zero thickness of the International Date Line (2009)

Edo-Period Teens Tackling Math's Toughest Problems

Just Live

Surviving History: The Fever (2014)

A Computational Approach to the Nineteenth-Century Language of Technology (2023)

Amateur Historians Heard Tales of a Lost Tudor Palace. Then, They Dug It Up

Why I love etymologies

The Database of Religious History

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