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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)
47 pts
A Wiser Sympathy: Theorizing plant intelligence in the nineteenth century(laphamsquarterly.org)
3y ago·1 comments
27 pts
Monotreme Dreams(nybooks.com)
3y ago·3 comments
12 pts
Rocks of Ages(historytoday.com)
3y ago·1 comments
33 pts
“Let us Calculate”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination (2016)(publicdomainreview.org)
3y ago·2 comments
41 pts
Shaking Ordinary Ice (Hard) Transformed It into Something Never Seen Before(nytimes.com)
3y ago·48 comments
42 pts
Illusory Wealth: Victor Dubreuil’s Cryptic Currencies(publicdomainreview.org)
3y ago·discuss
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‘The One’: Platonic particles and waves of history(wsj.com)
3y ago·2 comments
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The Problem with Silent Spring Environmentalism(newrepublic.com)
3y ago·1 comments
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‘Endless Flight’ Review: The Vision and Anguish of Joseph Roth(wsj.com)
3y ago·1 comments
51 pts
Sharp points found in Idaho could be first American-made tools(science.org)
3y ago·36 comments
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A Canaanite’s wish to eradicate lice on an inscribed ivory comb from Lachish [pdf](jjar.huji.ac.il)
3y ago·12 comments
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Lobster and snow crab fisheries search for alternative baits(hakaimagazine.com)
3y ago·38 comments
3 pts
Shattered by Nazi Bombs, a Fossil’s Lost Copies Are Just Being Found(nytimes.com)
3y ago·discuss
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A treasure hunt for microbes in Chile’s Atacama desert(knowablemagazine.org)
3y ago·5 comments
46 pts
The Toxic History of Color(atmos.earth)
3y ago·2 comments
65 pts
The day the dinosaurs died (2019)(newyorker.com)
3y ago·17 comments
25 pts
New study reveals complex identity of ancient Britons(theguardian.com)
3y ago·47 comments
39 pts
The Computer in the Aegean(historytoday.com)
3y ago·22 comments
22 pts
Cultural transmission makes animals flexible, but vulnerable(knowablemagazine.org)
3y ago·5 comments
86 pts
Exploring the richness and variety of letters sent to the East India Company(blogs.bl.uk)
3y ago·25 comments
220 pts
A moonshot for coral breeding(hakaimagazine.com)
3y ago·39 comments
76 pts
How the ‘black death’ left its genetic mark on future generations(nytimes.com)
3y ago·63 comments
81 pts
The sarcastic fringehead's broad-mouthed display is reserved for fighting(nytimes.com)
3y ago·27 comments
129 pts
Cork is making a comeback(bbc.com)
3y ago·53 comments
119 pts
The curious case of Norway’s demon wall (2021)(atlasobscura.com)
3y ago·28 comments
28 pts
Imperfect Wisdom: On Rachel Aviv’s “Strangers to Ourselves”(lareviewofbooks.org)
3y ago·discuss
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Fugitive Colors: A true crime story about poached butterflies (1997)(orionmagazine.org)
3y ago·1 comments
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Vietnam’s ancient whale temples(atlasobscura.com)
3y ago·13 comments
54 pts
Mythology could help demystify dog domestication(sciencenews.org)
3y ago·33 comments
5 pts
Between Fact and Fable: Historical Fiction or Nonfictional Novel?(lithub.com)
3y ago·1 comments