Stories by benbreen

Sea monsters and their inspiration: serpents, mermaids, the kraken and more

17th-century botanists filled their gardens with plants from around the world

The Cold War Fashion Showdown

Coins, the Overlooked Keys to History

Restaurant prices in the 19th and 20th centuries (2009)

What animals see in the stars, and what they stand to lose

Michael Pollan’s All-Natural Highs

What termites and cells have in common

The Cost of Omission: Dr. Valentina Wasson and Getting Our Stories Right (2020)

Solid Objects: 16th-Century Geometric and Perspective Drawings

The Brontë archive needs to be secured for public use and made accessible

Mount of piety

Derbyshire cave house identified as ninth-century home to exiled king

UCSF Launches Translational Psychedelic Research (TrPR) Program

The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two

Night of the Guillotine: The Fall of Robespierre

Zygalski Sheets

The Private Life of a Cat (2020)

Psychedelics open a new window on the mechanisms of perception

The spread of weighing systems across Western Eurasia 4k years ago

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