Stories by benbreen

An arrowhead made of meteoritic iron from the late Bronze Age

Why early modern books are so beautiful

What Benjamin Franklin Learned While Fighting Counterfeiters

The cutting-edge cartoons of Winsor McCay

The First Map of the Moon

Earliest curry in Southeast Asia and the global spice trade 2000 years ago

Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?

Hallucinogenic plants in Chinese herbals

The persistence of the Saturday Evening Post (2021)

Stone walls and historical harbors are unexpected havens of biodiversity

Bayesian methods to provide probablistic solution for the Drake equation (2019)

The Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Survey

Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, revolutionary, cryptologist… suspected spy?

Nimatron

Kakure Kirishitan

Gadgets and gizmos that inspired Adam Smith

Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?

Echoes of Eco in His Library

William Saville-Kent: Marine Biology's Unsolved Murder (2021)

Tombs rich in artifacts discovered by Swedish expedition in Cyprus

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