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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)
36 pts
St. Cuthbert's Beads(en.wikipedia.org)
4y ago·11 comments
112 pts
Why do some humans love chili peppers?(sapiens.org)
4y ago·175 comments
84 pts
Our long, vulnerable childhoods may be the key to our success(spectator.co.uk)
4y ago·36 comments
8 pts
What Our Fantasies About the European Middle Ages Say About Us(hyperallergic.com)
4y ago·10 comments
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A High School Teacher Changed Early 20th-Century Insect Science(atlasobscura.com)
4y ago·1 comments
84 pts
Nephromyces: A mystery wrapped in a riddle wrapped in a kidney(theatlantic.com)
4y ago·10 comments
9 pts
Jumbo’s Ghost: Elephants and Machines in Motion(publicdomainreview.org)
4y ago·discuss
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Manned Orbiting Laboratory(en.wikipedia.org)
4y ago·discuss
35 pts
Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1757–1795)(publicdomainreview.org)
4y ago·3 comments
33 pts
Revising the History of DDT’s Long-Tailed Legacy(lareviewofbooks.org)
4y ago·4 comments
14 pts
Wielding Wheat(nybooks.com)
4y ago·4 comments
164 pts
Why roller coaster loops aren’t circular anymore(vox.com)
4y ago·107 comments
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Shark evolution: a 450M year timeline(nhm.ac.uk)
4y ago·8 comments
1 pts
The role of patients and professionals in the definition of schizophrenia(historytoday.com)
4y ago·discuss
57 pts
A new exhibit focuses on the Egyptian team who worked on finding King Tut’s tomb(atlasobscura.com)
4y ago·7 comments
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Sabertooth carcass consumption behavior and Pleistocene large carnivoran guilds(nature.com)
4y ago·1 comments
43 pts
Research Confirms Eastern Wyoming Paleoindian Site as Americas’ Oldest Mine(uwyo.edu)
4y ago·8 comments
49 pts
Scientists Uncover a Shady Web of Online Spider Sales(nytimes.com)
4y ago·24 comments
107 pts
How I Started to See Trees as Smart(newyorker.com)
4y ago·41 comments
46 pts
The quest to explore Colombia’s untouched jungle(bbc.com)
4y ago·23 comments
36 pts
Plague, Crisis, and Science During the London Caterpillar Outbreak of 1782(cambridge.org)
4y ago·2 comments
21 pts
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt(blogs.bl.uk)
4y ago·2 comments
24 pts
Who invented modern political satire?(newramblerreview.com)
4y ago·22 comments
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AI’s First Philosopher(aeon.co)
4y ago·discuss
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In the Drug Archives (2021)(nybooks.com)
4y ago·discuss
106 pts
The world’s largest bee and the cautionary tale of its rediscovery(atlasobscura.com)
4y ago·29 comments
43 pts
Scientists peek into the kitchen of the Bronze Age Indus Valley civilization(archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com)
4y ago·9 comments
198 pts
Johns Hopkins Beast(en.wikipedia.org)
4y ago·48 comments
22 pts
Night Shifts: Can technology shape our dreams?(harpers.org)
4y ago·8 comments
54 pts
Weird Science(lareviewofbooks.org)
4y ago·17 comments