Stories by benbreen

A 17th Century Spreadsheet of Deaths in London (2014)

Why Farsi is actually easier than the major European languages (2011)

Derek Yu’s “Spelunky”

King Tut's dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms

Dedicated followers of fashion

Jane, John, Leslie? A Historical Method for Algorithmic Gender Prediction

The Vikings at home

A Forgotten Moment in ASCII Art History

Images of a New World: The Watercolors of John White (2012)

William Dampier: Pirate, Navigator, Naturalist, and Explorer

The pressure to publish pushes down quality

The Amorality of Self-Driving Cars

We Are Closing the Toast July First

Forgotten Mayan city: Is it just an old cornfield?

What Makes Texas Texas

The First Opium War: Production and Consumption (2011)

The Power of Oral History as Journalism

The Hidden Messages of Colonial Handwriting

Free the Public Universities

Six Degrees of Separation

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