Stories by benbreen

O-Rings: On the Challenger Disaster (2015) [pdf]

The Politics of the Turtle Feast (2013)

Auerbach Was Right: A Computational Study of the Odyssey and the Gospels

Oulipian Code

Fairy Tales That Predate Christianity

Show HN: My Book Review of Steven Weinberg's 'To Explain the World'

The New Science of Freezing

Vial and Error: Revisiting the “Whig Interpretation” in the History of Science

Bald's Leechbook Now Online – 10th century Anglo-Saxon medical recipe compendium

How Papermaking Crossed the Alps

Early Modern Drugs and Medicinal Cannibalism (2012)

A modern alchemical hoax exposed

Neanderthals in 3D: L’Homme de La Chapelle

Band-e Kaisar – “Caesar's dam”‎‎

A Renaissance Merchant's Life in Clothing (2011)

The Painted Skull (2014)

You've Got Mail Bombs: Tracking Down the Most Dangerous Letters in the World

Holocene shifts in plant and animal communities implicate human impacts

Digital History Projects That Dazzled Us in 2015

What have we lost now that we can no longer read the sky?

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