Stories by benbreen

Earthen Messages: Nikola Tesla in his Laboratory (ca. 1899)

Pharmacology

Some Like It Fraught: How Billy Wilder Survived the Twentieth Century

Stanislav Grof Interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann, Big Sur, California (1984)

What did the ancient Babylonians discern in the skies above?

Why Would Two Ordinary People Steal a $160M Willem de Kooning Painting?

Turin Papyrus Map

Rome’s New Cooking Museum Invites Visitors to Feast with Their Eyes

Philipp Hainhofer’s Große Stammbuch (1596–1633)

Pólya Urn Model

Mummification in the Mesolithic

Cosmopolitan Railway

Boiling Oil, Red-Hot Irons, 26-Second Amputations: How Surgery Evolved

Manhattan Phoenix review: epic history of how New York was forged by fire

A Native American Provenance Enigma

Keeping Time at Stonehenge

Enhanced Interplay of Neuronal Coherence and Coupling in the Dying Human Brain

Doomed ship of gold’s ghostly picture gallery is plucked from the seabed

All You Zombies

Mapping the Wander Lines: The Quiet Revelations of Fernand Deligny (2015)

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