Stories by benbreen

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

5k-year-old hunter-gatherer is earliest known person to have died with plague

Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s)

Hierapolis, Turkey's mysterious 'portal to the underworld'

Mass Observation Project: recording everyday life in Britain

Duenos Inscription

Siberian cave hosted Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern humans

Why it took us thousands of years to see the colour violet

Chasing After Wind: Reframing the Book of Ecclesiastes

Euphuism

A Star Is Born

Dickinson’s Improvisations

The Historian and the Murderer

Little Wars by H.G. Wells

Blood, Stones and Holy Bones

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