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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)
11 pts
The Factious, High-Drama World of Bird Taxonomy(theatlantic.com)
9y ago·3 comments
33 pts
Walt Disney's Dinosaurs: The Story of the Rite of Spring(extinctblog.org)
9y ago·3 comments
18 pts
“Other” Televisions at the New York World's Fair (1995) [pdf](earlytelevision.org)
9y ago·3 comments
58 pts
Medieval books reveal the extreme methods with which artists achieved their reds(theparisreview.org)
9y ago·4 comments
67 pts
Restoring tropical forests from the bottom up(science.sciencemag.org)
9y ago·4 comments
1 pts
Crafting the Koran(nybooks.com)
9y ago·discuss
41 pts
The Mystery of the World's Least American Cactus(atlasobscura.com)
9y ago·10 comments
24 pts
Socrates to Euthyphro: three strikes and you are out(90cubedrule.com)
9y ago·3 comments
26 pts
Really big numbers(blog.oup.com)
9y ago·19 comments
1 pts
Little Things: The outsized pleasures of the very small(harpers.org)
9y ago·discuss
35 pts
For Ben Franklin’s Birthday, His First Piece of Printing Reappears(nytimes.com)
9y ago·1 comments
52 pts
A Meeting of the Fern Society(theparisreview.org)
9y ago·6 comments
28 pts
An exhibition to commemorate 75 years since the first human trials of penicillin(blog.wellcomelibrary.org)
9y ago·6 comments
348 pts
Just how smart is an octopus?(washingtonpost.com)
9y ago·312 comments
90 pts
How can existentialist philosophy help with the anxiety and dread of fatherhood?(aeon.co)
9y ago·105 comments
167 pts
The First Female Doctor in Britain Spent 56 Years Disguised as a Man(atlasobscura.com)
9y ago·73 comments
7 pts
Behind the Scenes with the World's Top Feather Detective(audubon.org)
9y ago·1 comments
43 pts
What I learned about China by searching for the world’s rarest bird(medium.com)
9y ago·2 comments
1 pts
Around the World in Bottom Pot(kitchenbutterfly.com)
9y ago·discuss
311 pts
A Guide to the Breads of India(luckypeach.com)
9y ago·152 comments
22 pts
A Book Unfinished: Paracelsus in Hand-Press Sheets(circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov)
9y ago·discuss
63 pts
The Soil Depletion Crisis: A tragic episode from the 19th century(historytoday.com)
9y ago·19 comments
99 pts
Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple? (2008)(smithsonianmag.com)
9y ago·43 comments
59 pts
What the Trees Say(nybooks.com)
9y ago·3 comments
41 pts
Freud’s Discontents(thenation.com)
9y ago·38 comments
122 pts
Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence(medium.com)
9y ago·49 comments
40 pts
Deep in New Zealand(nybooks.com)
9y ago·34 comments
13 pts
Bringing the Drugstore Home: An Interview with Deanna Day(cabinetmagazine.org)
9y ago·2 comments
19 pts
A Book by Its Cover: The strange history of books bound in human skin(laphamsquarterly.org)
9y ago·2 comments
32 pts
Animal Minds: The new anthropomorphism(chronicle.com)
10y ago·19 comments