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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)
88 pts
500 years ago, a German abbot wrote a book on communication with spirits (1998)(cryptome.org)
11y ago·13 comments
39 pts
Medieval Bargain Books(medievalbooks.nl)
11y ago·5 comments
19 pts
Japanese Falconry(bibliodyssey.blogspot.com)
11y ago·10 comments
7 pts
Exploring the warship Mars, the pride of Sweden's 16th-century navy (2014)(news.nationalgeographic.com)
11y ago·3 comments
277 pts
In 1962, a college student answers an ad: “Mortuary Assistant required”(laphamsquarterly.org)
11y ago·94 comments
81 pts
On the front lines of humanity’s high-tech war on rats(theverge.com)
11y ago·32 comments
15 pts
The Emerald Triangle: a year in the lives of California’s marijuana farmers(themorningnews.org)
11y ago·2 comments
10 pts
The Birth of the Weather Forecast(bbc.com)
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90 pts
Finnegans Wake: the book the web was invented for(theguardian.com)
11y ago·35 comments
2 pts
Better Call Caravaggio: Vince Gilligan Borrows from the Baroque(theparisreview.org)
11y ago·discuss
56 pts
Forgotten Failures of African Exploration(publicdomainreview.org)
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30 pts
Cigarettes, damn cigarettes and statistics(timharford.com)
11y ago·14 comments
11 pts
Laplacian Sigils: William George Armstrong’s Electrical Discharge Experiments(dataisnature.com)
11y ago·1 comments
4 pts
Carbon Capture: climate change and conservation(newyorker.com)
11y ago·1 comments
15 pts
Anglo-Saxon antibiotics are just the start – bioprospecting in the past(theguardian.com)
11y ago·1 comments
42 pts
Fruit Mutiny: Whither the breadfruit?(theparisreview.org)
11y ago·17 comments
58 pts
The PhD Factory (2011)(nature.com)
11y ago·30 comments
23 pts
The Inhuman Anthropocene(avidly.lareviewofbooks.org)
11y ago·6 comments
3 pts
American petro-topia(aeon.co)
11y ago·discuss
3 pts
The Wild and the Homegrown: Chinese Pharmacy as Environmental History(academia.edu)
11y ago·discuss
2 pts
A Brief History of Dwarfism(psmag.com)
11y ago·discuss
3 pts
The Calculating Machines of Sir Samuel Morland(history-computer.com)
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23 pts
Why Is America Dotted with Giant, Concrete Arrows?(citylab.com)
11y ago·3 comments
112 pts
The Common Cure for Heroin Addiction Is Also a Magnet for Police Harassment(buzzfeed.com)
11y ago·44 comments
118 pts
What Books Could Be Used to Rebuild Civilization?(openculture.com)
11y ago·112 comments
2 pts
A trip through the shadowy world of an academic book mill (2014)(slate.com)
11y ago·discuss
9 pts
The Last Page of the Medieval Book(medievalbooks.nl)
11y ago·discuss
116 pts
Lifespan depends on month of birth (2000)(pnas.org)
11y ago·55 comments
1 pts
The Ashtray of History (2007)(theatlantic.com)
11y ago·discuss
19 pts
Working Longer Hours Can Mean Drinking More(npr.org)
11y ago·1 comments