Stories by benbreen

Johannes Hartlieb's Book of Herbs (1462)

How the Denisovans Survived the Ice Age

World’s End (1980)

Antidotes for Melancholy in Early Modern England

The Mysterious, Deep-Dwelling Microbes That Sculpt Our Planet

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought

The Mind Is a Metaphor: About the Database

A Benchmark for Learning to Translate a New Language from One Grammar Book

Diagraming sentences in the 19th century

Oulipo's use of the Tohoku paper (2014)

The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece

Centuries of Childhood: The history of childhood is one of multiplicity

Francis Ford Coppola's "Godfather Notebook"

Edo-period teens tackling math's toughest problems

In the Ruins of Edward Gibbon's Masterpiece

Beginning the End: In the zero thickness of the International Date Line (2009)

Edo-Period Teens Tackling Math's Toughest Problems

Just Live

Surviving History: The Fever (2014)

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