Stories by benbreen

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

The Dust That Measures All Our Time

Adventures of a Mathematician brings an unsung scientist back into the light

Darwin’s Barnacles

A Modest Apology for the Man in the Bottle (1749)

The Creeps of the Cosmos (2017)

Adolf Schmidt’s Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde (1890)

Scientists test medieval gunpowder recipes with 15th-century cannon replica

Seventy-Seven Cents on the Thaler? Women’s Wages in the Middle Ages (2016)

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