Stories by benbreen

Japanese Lucky Almanacs and Their Knockoffs

Chasing the (Literal) Dragon

How the brain perceives rhythm

A Secret Jew, the New World, a Lost Book: Mystery Solved

What Nutmeg Can Tell Us About Nafta

Finding North America’s lost medieval city

Future tension

The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man

Liberia's Daily Talk: All the News That Fits on a Blackboard (2014)

When the South Held the Keys

A Brilliant Mind’s Pauses: The Fiction of Pushkin

Astral Travels with Jack London

John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician (2015)

A Bed for Fifty People?

Iran's Great Wall Is Now Buried and Forgotten

Leonard Cohen on Poetry, Music and Why He Left the Zen Monastery

“Let Us Calculate”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination

Laws or comets?

Touched by the Goddess: On Ramanujan

Istanbul's Wandering Songbirds

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