Stories by benbreen

Searching for Jagari

On a farm in Missouri, a radical experiment in self-sufficiency (2013)

The Secret to Getting Top-Secret Secrets

The Psychology of Space (2013)

A digital collection of over 10,000 cylinder recordings

Return to the Antikythera Shipwreck: Marine Archaeology Goes High-Tech

A Short History of the Executioner

Drinking Blood and Eating Flesh: Corpse Medicine in Early Modern England (2011)

In the Trenches: Pierre Minault’s First World War Diary (1914)

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

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