Stories by benbreen

The Spanish Flu: Testimonies from a 1918 diary (2018)

Gardens as Crypto-Water-Computers (2012)

Writers on the Books That Bring Them Comfort

George Gershwin, Then and Now

Though NY Public Library Is Closed, You Can Now Access Its Databases Online

Typhoid Mary's tragic tale exposed the health impacts of 'super-spreaders'

How coffee took over the world

The easterner goes west in three early American comics

Reverse of the medal: The posthumous reputation of Patrick O’Brian

Oxus Treasure

‘God preserve us all’: Samuel Pepys and the Great Plague (2015)

The Science of Abolition

Is Economic Growth a Moral Imperative?

PTSD and Gene Kelly’s Lost Wartime Star Turn (2013)

My life with Oliver Sacks: ‘The most unusual person I had ever known’ (2017)

How to Be Tudor (2016)

Form Constant

The Man Who First Said 'Cyborg,' 50 Years Later (2010)

Perennial philosophy

“Theire Soe Admirable Herbe”: How the English Found Cannabis

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