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Petiver

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)
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Æpyornis Island(en.wikipedia.org)
2y ago·discuss
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Pleistocene Rewilding(en.wikipedia.org)
2y ago·discuss
58 pts
Ancient Texts Can Shed Light on Auroras(smithsonianmag.com)
2y ago·8 comments
19 pts
A Swimming Dinosaur? Maybe Not, Study Says(nytimes.com)
2y ago·5 comments
40 pts
Renaissance Women(yalereview.org)
2y ago·76 comments
38 pts
'Byron: A Life in Ten Letters': The Regency's rakish rock star(wsj.com)
2y ago·15 comments
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Like a Top Hat: Review of Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography(lrb.co.uk)
2y ago·discuss
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Space telescopes transformed our ability to understand the universe(theguardian.com)
2y ago·4 comments
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A Fossilized Tree That Dr. Seuss Might Have Dreamed Up(nytimes.com)
2y ago·discuss
37 pts
What Is Incoherence?(aeon.co)
2y ago·12 comments
90 pts
The geometry of other people(aeon.co)
2y ago·4 comments
26 pts
What was the biggest art theft in history?(thecollector.com)
2y ago·67 comments
69 pts
The Early History of the Channel Tunnel(publicdomainreview.org)
2y ago·23 comments
28 pts
The Crypt of Civilization (2006)(damninteresting.com)
2y ago·4 comments
97 pts
How to Lose a Library(publicbooks.org)
2y ago·24 comments
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The First Costume Book: 1562(publicdomainreview.org)
2y ago·1 comments
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Lake Tanganyika's Scale Eating Fish(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
2y ago·4 comments
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The naked reader: Child enslavement in the Villa of the Mysteries fresco(journals.uchicago.edu)
2y ago·30 comments
4 pts
The Reluctant Levitator: Teresa of Avila's Humble Raptures(publicdomainreview.org)
2y ago·discuss
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If you plant milkweed, they will come(nytimes.com)
2y ago·89 comments
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Collection Cost: Eighteenth-century British naturalists in west Africa(laphamsquarterly.org)
2y ago·discuss
47 pts
Orthographic Depth(en.wikipedia.org)
2y ago·53 comments
43 pts
The Details Are in the Devil’s Tumors(hakaimagazine.com)
2y ago·11 comments
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Fluorescent mammals are far more common than earlier thought(theguardian.com)
2y ago·17 comments
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Naturalists Unknown: Lives marked by discovery and erasure(theamericanscholar.org)
2y ago·3 comments
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The possibly never-ending quest for the golden owl(atlasobscura.com)
2y ago·22 comments
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Open Air Schools of the 1900s(blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)
2y ago·55 comments
38 pts
The curious incident of the dog and the palm tree (2015)(ancientrecipes.wordpress.com)
2y ago·8 comments
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Health risks of travel in early-modern Britain(dralun.wordpress.com)
2y ago·65 comments
38 pts
Finding Hope in the Dark Power of Fungus(noemamag.com)
3y ago·1 comments