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Petiver

10,875karma·622submissions·December 2, 2014
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He called skippers "hogs", swallowtails "Royal Williams," walls as "Enfield Eyes," and marbled whites as "Half-Mourners."
recent activity (622 total)
88 pts
Found: A Miniature Incan Llama at the Bottom of Lake Titicaca(atlasobscura.com)
6y ago·16 comments
30 pts
Why did the atomic spy do it?(nature.com)
6y ago·43 comments
13 pts
The First Best Seller: Samuel Richardson’s Pamela(laphamsquarterly.org)
6y ago·1 comments
12 pts
Quantifying Vitality: The Progressive Paradox(hedgehogreview.com)
6y ago·2 comments
52 pts
Zamburak(en.wikipedia.org)
6y ago·28 comments
101 pts
The world of cheap produce and its consequences(the-tls.co.uk)
6y ago·121 comments
79 pts
Eating Thai Fruit Demands Serious Effort but Delivers Sublime Reward(nytimes.com)
6y ago·147 comments
9 pts
The Unfinished Project of Enlightenment(bostonreview.net)
6y ago·discuss
121 pts
Cannabis and Frankincense at the Judahite Shrine of Arad(tandfonline.com)
6y ago·24 comments
51 pts
An English Clergyman’s Advice for Quarantine(nybooks.com)
6y ago·20 comments
48 pts
The 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis(laphamsquarterly.org)
6y ago·8 comments
63 pts
You can’t prove I meant X(lrb.co.uk)
6y ago·120 comments
14 pts
Do it yourself? When the researcher becomes the subject (2016)(sciencemag.org)
6y ago·discuss
28 pts
White Gold: How Chinese porcelain became a worldwide sensation(historytoday.com)
6y ago·1 comments
77 pts
Musth(en.wikipedia.org)
6y ago·15 comments
7 pts
Slow Time and Broad Horizons(the-tls.co.uk)
6y ago·discuss
56 pts
In Kaua‘i, botanists rediscover an extinct plant once mistaken for another(atlasobscura.com)
6y ago·2 comments
10 pts
Victorian spiritualists believed that ghosts could be captured on film(daily.jstor.org)
6y ago·2 comments
105 pts
Boredom is but a window to a sunny day beyond the gloom(aeon.co)
6y ago·25 comments
10 pts
Coronavirus Genome Posted on the UCSC Genome Browser(news.ucsc.edu)
6y ago·discuss
4 pts
Remembering organic chemistry legend Robert Burns Woodward (2017)(cen.acs.org)
6y ago·1 comments
26 pts
The Plague Shawl: 1878(thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com)
6y ago·6 comments
48 pts
A History of the Wolf(historytoday.com)
6y ago·13 comments
1 pts
Making Up Stuff(aeon.co)
6y ago·discuss
11 pts
Arthur Koestler’s life embodied the existential dilemmas of our age (2007)(city-journal.org)
6y ago·discuss
1 pts
Ancient Chinese views of the balance between the human and natural worlds(laphamsquarterly.org)
6y ago·discuss
59 pts
Classics for the People(aeon.co)
6y ago·14 comments
30 pts
Smart Toaster Can’t Hold a Candle to the Apollo Computer(theatlantic.com)
6y ago·19 comments
25 pts
A Brief History of the Fox(historynewsnetwork.org)
6y ago·4 comments