Stories by benbreen

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?

Romancing the Stones: On the winter solstice, modern Druids flock to Stonehenge

Making Drinkable Gold for the King of Siam

Northampton's medieval chess workshop 'first to be found'

Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia

What Andrew Sullivan's exit says about the future of blogging

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