Stories by samclemens

First Drafts of History: Earliest Extant Versions of Wikipedia Articles

The wasabi sushi restaurants serve is pretty much never actual wasabi

From Miasma to Ebola: The History of Racist Moral Panic Over Disease

The Morphological Evolution of the Violin

Nazi Monks Against the Panama Canal (2012)

The Power of Drug Color

The Paintings of Miles Davis

57% of Languages Do Not Have Gendered Pronouns

Yesterdays Drugs Are Tomorrow's Medicines

Digitizing the “mirror with a memory”

Sartre on the Nobel Prize (1964)

View from Nowhere: On the Cultural Ideology of Big Data

A Young Chemist Explains How Legal Highs Work

The Price of Black Ambition

The National Mall's Newest Portrait May Best Be Viewed from Space

Does It Help to Know History?

Dealer’s Hand: Why are so many people paying so much money for art? (2013)

The Closed Mind of Richard Dawkins

Why Not Eat Octopus?

How History Forgot Its Role in Public Debate

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