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Petiver

10,874karma·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)
8 pts
Enchanting Imposters(daily.jstor.org)
10mo ago·1 comments
2 pts
Citizen Kane, the New Deal, and the Second World War(historytoday.com)
10mo ago·discuss
3 pts
Lonely Island Adventures(woman-of-letters.com)
10mo ago·discuss
2 pts
The Rise of 'Conspiracy Physics'(wsj.com)
11mo ago·1 comments
3 pts
Crocodile Relative Was One of Dinosaurs' Most Fearsome Predators(nytimes.com)
11mo ago·discuss
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Creatures Apart: Shulamith Firestone's portraits of madness(bostonreview.net)
11mo ago·discuss
18 pts
Beyond Food and People(aeon.co)
1y ago·5 comments
18 pts
No Cheese Please(lrb.co.uk)
1y ago·6 comments
1 pts
Videos from the Amazon Reveal an Unexpected Animal Friendship(nytimes.com)
1y ago·discuss
65 pts
Human Stigmergy: The world is my task list(aethermug.com)
1y ago·19 comments
144 pts
The Origin of the Research University(asteriskmag.com)
1y ago·45 comments
52 pts
The Perils of 'Design Thinking'(theatlantic.com)
1y ago·64 comments
1 pts
The Political Journey of Thomas Mann(hedgehogreview.com)
1y ago·discuss
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Martin Crusius' Armchair Voyage(historytoday.com)
1y ago·1 comments
25 pts
The Tongue Is a Fire(lrb.co.uk)
1y ago·44 comments
3 pts
Instruments of Empire(newleftreview.org)
1y ago·discuss
3 pts
Rot: A History of the Irish Famine(historytoday.com)
1y ago·discuss
21 pts
Codd's Cellular Automaton(en.wikipedia.org)
1y ago·4 comments
2 pts
Muscle Memory(theamericanscholar.org)
1y ago·discuss
29 pts
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)(publicdomainreview.org)
1y ago·2 comments
92 pts
Researchers search for more precise ways to measure pain(washingtonpost.com)
1y ago·81 comments
38 pts
The Race to Decipher Cuneiform in the 19th Century(smithsonianmag.com)
1y ago·2 comments
52 pts
The Prehistoric Psychopath(worksinprogress.co)
1y ago·39 comments
4 pts
The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Virgins(newyorker.com)
1y ago·discuss
2 pts
'The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages' by Shane Bobrycki Review(historytoday.com)
1y ago·discuss
21 pts
In Praise of Subspecies(aeon.co)
1y ago·7 comments
19 pts
Snakeskin: It's Fashionable, and It Scares Predators Away from Bird Nests(nytimes.com)
1y ago·4 comments
32 pts
A Dark Age Beacon (2019)(archaeology.org)
1y ago·7 comments
2 pts
All-or-None Law(en.wikipedia.org)
1y ago·discuss
79 pts
Where Glaciers Melt, the Rivers Run Red(nytimes.com)
1y ago·84 comments