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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)
29 pts
Scratching the Surface: How geology shaped American culture(chronicle.com)
1y ago·16 comments
4 pts
Weeds Are Everywhere. Why Aren't We Eating Them More?(nytimes.com)
1y ago·2 comments
30 pts
The Saga of a Celebrated Scientist – and His Rodent Dystopia(chronicle.com)
1y ago·17 comments
2 pts
Was Stone Age Scandinavia Struck by Plague?(nytimes.com)
1y ago·discuss
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Hairballs Shed Light on Man-Eating Lions' Menu(nytimes.com)
1y ago·discuss
11 pts
When Two Sea Aliens Become One(nytimes.com)
1y ago·3 comments
63 pts
Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother(theguardian.com)
1y ago·38 comments
156 pts
A Trail Gone Cold(damninteresting.com)
1y ago·16 comments
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When a She-Bear Swims Ashore(hakaimagazine.com)
1y ago·discuss
59 pts
What the photographer who’s taken philosopher portraits thinks of philosophers(aestheticsforbirds.com)
1y ago·20 comments
9 pts
The Analyst and the Bard(hedgehogreview.com)
1y ago·1 comments
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Women Who Forged Medieval England(historytoday.com)
1y ago·discuss
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Here a Bee, There a Bee, Everywhere a Wild Bee(hakaimagazine.com)
1y ago·63 comments
41 pts
Marine worms made at least some trace fossil burrows called Bifungites(nytimes.com)
2y ago·13 comments
5 pts
Unusual Origin Found for Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs(nytimes.com)
2y ago·discuss
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How Did Roses Get Their Thorns?(nytimes.com)
2y ago·discuss
3 pts
Science Fiction Themes: What Has Changed? (2018)(darkworldsquarterly.gwthomas.org)
2y ago·discuss
105 pts
Fossil hints that Jurassic mammals lived slow and died old(nytimes.com)
2y ago·19 comments
40 pts
The Plague of Lust: A History of Venereal Disease in Antiquity (1901 Edition)(publicdomainreview.org)
2y ago·13 comments
2 pts
"Are There Men on the Moon?": Churchill on Alien Life, 1942(winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu)
2y ago·discuss
3 pts
David and Marian Fairchild's Book of Monsters (1914)(publicdomainreview.org)
2y ago·discuss
54 pts
Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery(new.nsf.gov)
2y ago·63 comments
22 pts
Transforming the National Gallery, one painting at a time(apollo-magazine.com)
2y ago·1 comments
38 pts
The Unusual Evolutionary Journey of the Baobab Tree(nytimes.com)
2y ago·6 comments
60 pts
Being Green: A new book marvels at the strangeness of plants(slate.com)
2y ago·11 comments
8 pts
Ancient malaria genome from Roman skeleton hints at disease's history(nature.com)
2y ago·1 comments
3 pts
To Help the Allied War Effort, Scientists Got Drunk on Nitrogen(smithsonianmag.com)
2y ago·discuss
62 pts
When Nostalgia Was Deadly(historytoday.com)
2y ago·34 comments
45 pts
Dark extinction: the problem of unknown historical extinctions (2021)(royalsocietypublishing.org)
2y ago·discuss