Stories by benbreen

The word ‘robot’ is meaningless

An architecture for encoding sentence meaning in left temporal cortex

Green Acres: What if Houston were known for its parks instead of its stripmalls?

Rescuing Ancient Seeds from a War-Torn City

The Serpent in the Sword: Pattern-Welding in Early Medieval Swords (1997) [pdf]

Fact-checking Byzantine astrologers

Eat Dirt

The story of a shy academic

The Journal That Couldn’t Stop Citing Itself

Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580)

Steganography: How to Send a Secret Message (2001)

How to Make Ink in the Middle Ages

The Hottest Restaurant of 2081

Small Man on Campus: William Carlos Williams' Letters from University

Rachel Laudan on the History of Food and Cuisine

British Library crowdsourcing translation of a 13th-century sword inscription

Aztec Mexico (2007)

The Elmore Leonard Story

A 17th-Century Woman Artist’s Butterfly Journey

The British Library Puts Over 1M Images in the Public Domain

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