Stories by benbreen

Perception of musical pitch varies across cultures (2019)

Responsible Use of Machine Learning APIs

The Musk Ox and Me

The telephone transformed – into almost everything (1993)

Bernard Bailyn, Eminent Historian of Early America, Dies at 97

Following lunatics: The fantasies of Mussolini and Hitler

Dickens in Brooklyn

The Cleopatra’s Nose of 1914

The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road

Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (2008) [pdf]

Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction (2015)

Primary Sources: A Natural History of the Artist's Palette

Centuries-old paintings help researchers track food evolution

Chinua Achebe, the Art of Fiction No. 139 (1994)

Aristotle's Lost Book on Magic (2018)

Richard Powers, the Art of Fiction No. 175 (2003)

Fernando Pessoa’s Disappearing Act (2017)

Who were the Hyksos? Strontium isotope analysis of remains from ancient Egypt

The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road

A long-lost perfume got a second life after 150 years underwater

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