Stories by benbreen

NYU Eats World: An alumna laments the rise of an imperial university

De Re Metallica (1556)

Mapping Babel: A Sixteenth-Century Indigenous Map from Mexico (2013)

How Burmese Elephants Helped Defeat the Japanese in World War II

What’s the Big Idea? David Ermitage on “Big History” (2012)

Why the Symbol of Life Is a Loop, Not a Helix

Greeks captivated by Alexander-era tomb at Amphipolis

The Romance of Science in Victorian Natural History Bookbindings

When Global Warming Kills Your God

Yuri Gagarin Sings

Unleashing an Epidemic to Kill Tumbleweeds

Who Is Su: On Amnesia

Force of nature gave life its asymmetry

The Nebulous and the Infinitesimal

People Who Collect Radioactive Glass

The Itch (2008)

How to Understand Your Computer

How scientists taxidermied the last Pinta Island tortoise

The Passing of the Indians Behind Glass

Tinted Glass Spectacles c. 1830