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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)
63 pts
Why is history always about humans?(bostonglobe.com)
8y ago·57 comments
1 pts
What Knitting Can Teach You About Math(smithsonianmag.com)
8y ago·discuss
43 pts
Patterson's Cipher for Jefferson – Challenge Solved After 200 Years (2009)(cryptiana.web.fc2.com)
8y ago·9 comments
57 pts
I Now Pronounce You Legally Null and Void(laphamsquarterly.org)
8y ago·52 comments
16 pts
The Surprising History (and Future) of Fingerprints(theparisreview.org)
8y ago·4 comments
2 pts
How Advertising Shaped the First Opioid Epidemic(smithsonianmag.com)
8y ago·discuss
95 pts
How the Manhattan Project’s Nuclear Suburb Stayed Secret(atlasobscura.com)
8y ago·37 comments
47 pts
A new book on Renaissance mathematics makes a bold case(newrepublic.com)
8y ago·45 comments
99 pts
The impossibly wide learning of Sabine Baring-Gould(theweek.com)
8y ago·27 comments
15 pts
Cupholders Are Everywhere(theatlantic.com)
8y ago·64 comments
40 pts
American Drugs in Egyptian Mummies (2005)(faculty.ucr.edu)
8y ago·42 comments
1 pts
Centaur or fop? How horsemanship made the Englishman a man(aeon.co)
8y ago·discuss
41 pts
Errol Morris on his movie, and long friendship, with Stephen Hawking(slate.com)
8y ago·discuss
26 pts
The Greenhouse Effect: Eco-friendly glass architecture that incorporates flora(metamute.org)
8y ago·6 comments
3 pts
Darwin's Beard and George Eliot's Hands(publicbooks.org)
8y ago·discuss
59 pts
Don’t Mess with the Birds(newyorker.com)
8y ago·6 comments
45 pts
The Connections Between Coffee and Biodiversity(daily.jstor.org)
8y ago·2 comments
22 pts
Deluxe printing: Antoine Vérard’s 1498 illuminated Merlin(blogs.bl.uk)
8y ago·discuss
75 pts
Cryptography: Or the History, Principles, and Practice of Cipher-Writing (1898)(publicdomainreview.org)
8y ago·2 comments
5 pts
The Long, Strange Legacy of One of the World’s Earliest Fake Mermaids(atlasobscura.com)
8y ago·discuss
12 pts
When Books Read You, a Defense of Bibliomancy(berfrois.com)
8y ago·discuss
55 pts
'I really want to find it before I die': why are we so fascinated by lost books?(theguardian.com)
8y ago·27 comments
13 pts
The humble apron of the 18th century(georgianera.wordpress.com)
8y ago·discuss
17 pts
When Whimsical Anti-Theft Tea Caddies Protected the World's Most Precious Leaf(collectorsweekly.com)
8y ago·1 comments
59 pts
The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420(publicdomainreview.org)
8y ago·3 comments
303 pts
'It Was the First Time I Cried in the Operating Room'(spiegel.de)
8y ago·68 comments
24 pts
Of unicorns and other oddities: an 18th century Persian medical manual(blogs.bl.uk)
8y ago·1 comments
78 pts
Why humans need to rethink their place in the animal kingdom(newstatesman.com)
8y ago·61 comments
113 pts
The Spice of Life(slowfood.com)
8y ago·61 comments
30 pts
The Person in the Ape(laphamsquarterly.org)
8y ago·6 comments