Stories by benbreen

Will Our Grandchildren Say That We Changed the Earth Too Little? (2015)

The revolutionary ideas of Thomas Kuhn

Earthsea – A Rival to Tolkien and George RR Martin (2015)

Ethics in Machine Learning: Interview with Dr. Hanie Sedghi, Google Brain

Putting Ancient Recipes on the Plate

On the global survival of mafias

Mr. X by Carl Sagan (1969)

William James and the philosophy of pragmatism

Neurology in Ancient Faces (2001) [pdf]

Albert Hofmann discovers the effects of LSD (1943)

Artists and writers whose works enter the public domain in 2018

The Agricultural Revolution a Mistake? Not If You Count Food Processing (2016)

Snails, Hedgehog Heads and Stale Beer: a peek inside premodern cookbooks

A handbook of Ethiopian magic incantations and talisman art

Pods, Pots, and Potions: Putting Cacao to Paper in Early Modern Europe

Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?

On Making Oneself Less Unreadable

Rough Music and Charivari: Letters Between Natalie Zemon Davis and E.P. Thompson

Early Modern Globalization and Exotic Animals (2011)

A dervish beneath the fixed stars

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