Stories by benbreen

Does evolutionary theory need a rethink?

The “Natural Language of the Hand” and the Early History of Educating the Deaf

Mary Somerville, the woman who translated Laplace

The Labors of Leisure

Europe's first farmers were also its first carpenters

Interview with Raymond Carver (1983)

The Contestant

The Stradivarius Affair

Consumed: A meditation on being eaten

The Grand Illusion: Does time have a future?

On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits [pdf]

Put a Propeller on It: The Golden Age of Tinkering

The Poet, the Physician and the Birth of the Modern Vampire

The Second Best Bed: All About's Shakespeare's Will

Reinventing the Academic Journal (2013)

Hopi Drawings of Kachinas (1903)

Declassified: The CIA Canoe Commuters

French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war

What drives writers to drink?

Beethoven transformed music, but has veneration of him stifled his successors?

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