Stories by benbreen

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

OCR and Medieval Manuscripts: Establishing a Baseline (2015)

What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like?

List of price of medieval items (2006)

A Memorial in Line Segment Cipher from Peru (1604)

Solved: The Ciphers in Book III of Trithemius' Steganographia (1998) [pdf]

Some Rules for Historians (1973)

Revisited: Watership Down

Connecting to Google Sheets with Python

Arsenic and Old Leeches

The Blazing World

Robot of Jihad? A Guide to Tipu’s Tiger (2014)

Hunting Gorillas in the Land of Cannibals (2014)

Defining the Demonic

When Science Was Big

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