Stories by benbreen

Watching the sixties and seventies through 2001 and Alien

In the 20th century, the frequency of the definite article “the” decreased

Getting Drunk in Colonial America (2013)

Anglo-Saxons did not use the four-letter profanities we credit them with

What David Foster Wallace Taught Paul Thomas Anderson

Ancestral Hierarchy and Conflict in Early Primates (2012) [pdf]

The Smart, Angry Home

How Photographers Tried to Capture the Terror of Night Zeppelin Raids During WWI

The Hunter, the Hoaxer, and the Battle Over Bigfoot

Smithsonian Digitizes 40,000 Asian and American Artworks

The Last of the Magicians: On Jack Parsons and JPL

The Medieval Origins of the Modern Footnote

A Bibliographic Miracle

Jupiter Moon Europa's Giant Geysers Are Missing

History and the Technopolitics of Identity: Apartheid South Africa (2010) [pdf]

Mae Keane, the Last 'Radium Girl,' Dies at 107

Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir

That Debt from 1720? Britain’s Payment Is Coming

Sex and the Industrial Revolution

Unexpected Life Found in the Ocean's Deepest Trench

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