Stories by benbreen

Plutonium and poetry: Where Trinity and Oppenheimer's reading habits met (2021)

Wanderwort

The Unravelling of an Expert on Serial Killers

Documenting Drugs: The Artful Intoxications of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

A Botanical Mystery Solved, After 146 Years

When Mongols Set Out to Conquer the World, There Was One Limiting Factor: Grass

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

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