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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)
55 pts
In the Middle Ages, the Upper Class Went Nuts for Almond Milk(atlasobscura.com)
8y ago·79 comments
41 pts
Asthma and the Civil Rights Movement(nyamcenterforhistory.org)
8y ago·6 comments
4 pts
The Case for Not Being Born(newyorker.com)
8y ago·discuss
1 pts
Scientists Identify a Third Orangutan Species(theatlantic.com)
8y ago·discuss
3 pts
Arsenic and Old Leeches(laphamsquarterly.org)
8y ago·discuss
2 pts
What Do We Do with Our Dead?(newyorker.com)
8y ago·discuss
57 pts
What Sewing Samplers Tell Us About Women’s Lives from the 17th to 19th Centuries(hyperallergic.com)
8y ago·12 comments
1 pts
The Mystery Hiding in the Cracks of a 17th-Century Painting Has Been Revealed(atlasobscura.com)
8y ago·discuss
129 pts
“Peer review” is younger than we think(sappingattention.blogspot.com)
8y ago·37 comments
1 pts
Collecting the World by James Delbourgo – The Life of Hans Sloane(ft.com)
9y ago·discuss
19 pts
Hilary Putnam’s most surprising philosophical shift began at home(chronicle.com)
9y ago·8 comments
14 pts
Human Forms in Nature: Ernst Haeckel’s Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath(publicdomainreview.org)
9y ago·discuss
80 pts
The Great Man Paradox(thonyc.wordpress.com)
9y ago·30 comments
60 pts
The dwarfs of our vocabulary(blog.oup.com)
9y ago·16 comments
1 pts
Stargazing: The Invention of Celebrity, 1750–1850(literaryreview.co.uk)
9y ago·discuss
90 pts
Heretical Things Statistics Tell Us About Fiction(newyorker.com)
9y ago·35 comments
1 pts
How Social Norms Are Like Chili Peppers(peterturchin.com)
9y ago·discuss
47 pts
Paradise Possible(firstthings.com)
9y ago·12 comments
1 pts
Genomes of straight-tusked elephants(johnhawks.net)
9y ago·discuss
96 pts
Medieval Scholars Believed in the Possibility of Parallel Universes(atlasobscura.com)
9y ago·46 comments
21 pts
Stupendous intelligence of honey badgers(the-tls.co.uk)
9y ago·20 comments
15 pts
The Animalcule: A Life of Thomas de Quincey(lrb.co.uk)
9y ago·1 comments
26 pts
Mathematical Treasure: Robert Fludd’s History of the Macrocosm (2014)(maa.org)
9y ago·1 comments
19 pts
Look back with danger: on nostalgia(the-tls.co.uk)
9y ago·2 comments
13 pts
Artifacts at an Exhibition: The Art and Science of Healing(recipes.hypotheses.org)
9y ago·discuss
67 pts
The Long-Ignored Reptile Rewriting the Prologue to the Dinosaur Story(theatlantic.com)
9y ago·1 comments
19 pts
Ali Qushji(en.wikipedia.org)
9y ago·8 comments
83 pts
Foucault’s work on power(aeon.co)
9y ago·66 comments
2 pts
Milton Friedman’s Misadventures in China(theamericanscholar.org)
9y ago·discuss
103 pts
We Need More ‘Useless’ Knowledge(chronicle.com)
9y ago·58 comments