Stories by benbreen

X-15B (2019)

Historians of science have too many big pictures, not too few (2016)

Vanguard 1

The Search for the Origin of Eels

To study ancient seafarers, researcher built a replica ship and sailed it

Colonizing the Cosmos: Astor’s Electrical Future

Puzzle Monday: A Divine Script from the Congo

Margaret Mead’s call for less “orthodox” grantmaking

What Was the First Transit Map? Understanding the Tabula Peutingeriana

Living in a fringe environment: three Late Roman settlements in the Kharga Oasis

How Mathematics Changed Me

Has a War on Drugs Ever Been Won?

An Hallucinated Man: The battles over T. S. Eliot’s legacy

From the Dry Goods Economist 1909: Selling and Store Displays

Systems and Cost Analysis for Nuclear Subterrene Tunneling Machine (1973) [pdf]

The Itch (2008)

Black Hours, Morgan MS 493

The Case of Tut's Missing Collar

Historical patterns and sustainability implications of worldwide bicycle use

Project Highwater

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