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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
Dr Mitchill and the Mathematical Tetrodon(publicdomainreview.org)
11y ago·discuss
72 pts
Understanding Hitler’s Anti-Semitism(theatlantic.com)
11y ago·56 comments
19 pts
More Titillated Than Thou: How Amish Conquered the Evangelical Romance Market(thebaffler.com)
11y ago·discuss
10 pts
Episodes in the Life of Bounce(cabinetmagazine.org)
11y ago·discuss
1 pts
Hair Streams(theparisreview.org)
11y ago·discuss
77 pts
How books help us to be better human beings(newstatesman.com)
11y ago·21 comments
38 pts
Metaphors and medically unexplained symptoms(thelancet.com)
11y ago·discuss
9 pts
Will the Pope Change the Vatican or Will the Vatican Change the Pope?(ngm.nationalgeographic.com)
11y ago·1 comments
6 pts
Pupil shape linked to animals’ place in ecological web(news.berkeley.edu)
11y ago·discuss
91 pts
A Submerged Monolith Near Sicily: Evidence for Mesolithic Human Activity(sciencedirect.com)
11y ago·43 comments
4 pts
What happens when you throw a camera into a black hole?(hopesandfears.com)
11y ago·discuss
9 pts
Swimming in Broth: Medicated Baths in Eighteenth-Century Europe(recipes.hypotheses.org)
11y ago·3 comments
3 pts
A Hundred Cities Within Seoul(nytimes.com)
11y ago·1 comments
3 pts
Should we trust robotic surgery?(hopesandfears.com)
11y ago·2 comments
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When ‘Jesus’ was ‘Judas’ and other Bible typos(washingtonpost.com)
11y ago·discuss
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How can philosophy make itself more relevant?(ideas.aeon.co)
11y ago·2 comments
62 pts
No Bad Things: Growing up with obsessive-compulsive disorder(theparisreview.org)
11y ago·15 comments
96 pts
Marie Curie’s Research Papers Are Still Radioactive(openculture.com)
11y ago·25 comments
43 pts
A rare condition causes a doctor to experience other people's sensations(psmag.com)
11y ago·23 comments
51 pts
The Sun's New Trans-Neptunian Planet (1930)(sciencenews.org)
11y ago·11 comments
9 pts
The ‘great and cursed work’ that was the Encyclopédie(bostonglobe.com)
11y ago·discuss
22 pts
Wild in the Streets: A 24-Hour Field Guide to New York City(nytimes.com)
11y ago·2 comments
48 pts
How Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking(npr.org)
11y ago·44 comments
86 pts
UT Austin provides free access to more than 22,000 images of library materials(blog.hrc.utexas.edu)
11y ago·9 comments
7 pts
Breaking the Enlightenment Spell(prospectmagazine.co.uk)
11y ago·2 comments
18 pts
Hiring: The First Librarian of Congress for the Internet Age(theatlantic.com)
11y ago·7 comments
6 pts
The Doctor as Writer(lithub.com)
11y ago·discuss
135 pts
Taarof(en.wikipedia.org)
11y ago·83 comments
38 pts
Head Space: Behind 10,000 Years of Artificial Cranial Modification(atlasobscura.com)
11y ago·2 comments