Stories by benbreen

The Ancient History of Intelligent Machines

He Created the Oregon Trail

Talk with the Hand – On the expressive art of chirology

Earth system impacts of the Great Dying in the Americas after 1492 (2019)

To build an 18th-century ship, shipwrights had to remaster a lost craft

The Thrilling Dare of Scorched Rice

The origins of cannabis smoking: evidence from the first millennium BCE (2019)

Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution

Think You Know the 1960s? ‘The Shattering’ Asks You to Think Again

The Engineered Student: On B. F. Skinner’s Teaching Machine

The Most Ambitious Diary in History

Batavia shipwreck reveals a key to Dutch success in 17th-century world trade

Ancient gold burial mask found to be painted with human blood

Astronomers witnessed the death of a star as it happened

A librarian and a food historian rediscovered the recipes of Moorish Spain

In 1949, He Imagined an Age of Robots (2013)

A seventeenth century Jesuit who constructed his own monument

Embodied Intelligence via Learning and Evolution

Before Pong, There Was Computer Space

From Æthelflæd to Ælfthryth: The Idea of Queenship in Tenth-Century England

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