Stories by benbreen

The leak that brought the H-bomb debate out of the cold

George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the great Big Bang debate

Forging Ahead: The medieval industry of fake charters

Person from Porlock

Picturing Scent: The Tale of a Beached Whale

The Triple Revolution

Virtuosos of the Asylum

A Proposal for the Dartmouth Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (1955)

Buddha and Mind

Gazing at the Mother Tongue: Analyzing Twitter’s Image Cropping Algorithm

The Metal Age of Thailand and Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage

Pessoa: An Experimental Life review – a portrait with bags of personality

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

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