Stories by benbreen

What's Wrong with Public Intellectuals?

Dying beauties: the wooden buildings of Istanbul

Don’t like Valentine’s Day? Blame Chaucer

Happy Lupercalia (2011)

Love Tokens from the Thames

From Grad School to 'The Atlantic'

The Cosmological Limits of Information Storage

The Case for Hollywood History

Synchronicity and Scale in the Logic of the Anthropocene

Why reading a book 100 times is a great idea

Be not brave

Beauty Spots and French Pox

Measles in History

The vault where Harvard keeps millions of books

What language tells us about the roots of the stone age diet

Why Are We Obsessed with Talking Animals?

Depicting the Medieval Alchemical Cosmos (2013) [pdf]

Reproducing Hollow Cast Medals from a 16th Century Book of Secrets

Nazi Monks Against the Panama Canal (2012)

How did science come to speak only English?

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