Stories by benbreen

Jamestown excavation unearths four bodies and a mystery in a small box

Early telegraph routes were strikingly similar to today’s Internet pathways

Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's Ultimate Mix Tape (2010)

Searching for Jagari: The “Mick Jagger of Zambia” (2014)

The Corpse Exchange

Almost Lovable: on Stalinist architecture

Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table

Phaistos Disc

Are professional ethicists good people? According to research, not especially

NLM Digitizes Unique Early English Books, Allowing Free Online Access

E. L. Doctorow, the Art of Fiction No. 94 (1986)

Tolkien and the Fairy Story (1963)

Peer review: not as old as you might think

Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine

Anthropology, Footnoted: Jared Diamond’s “The World Until Yesterday” (2013)

The Archival Agenda: Thinking Through Scientific Archives at the Royal Society

The Sensualist: What Makes “The Tale of Genji” So Seductive

From Folklore to Exotica: Yma Sumac and the Performance of Inca Identity (2013)

India and the Circulation of Ideas in the Late Eighteenth Century (2013)

Austin's First Electric Streetcar Era (2013)

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