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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."
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33 pts
James Sowerby's British Mineralogy (1802–1817)(publicdomainreview.org)
4y ago·2 comments
26 pts
They Want to Break T. Rex into 3 Species. Other Paleontologists Aren’t Pleased(nytimes.com)
4y ago·18 comments
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In Bhutan, a Rare Tiger’s Mysterious Illness Had a Surprising Source(atlasobscura.com)
4y ago·discuss
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How does a crustacean become a crab? (2021)(eurekalert.org)
4y ago·15 comments
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Whales in the Cliff Face(hakaimagazine.com)
4y ago·discuss
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Metaphysical Animals review – four women who changed philosophy(theguardian.com)
4y ago·discuss
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A Dictator’s Marginalia: Stalin’s “signs of attention”(laphamsquarterly.org)
4y ago·discuss
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The Common Tongue of Twenty-First-Century London(newyorker.com)
4y ago·12 comments
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Charles Darwin, somewhat aimless student and excellent beetle hunter(laphamsquarterly.org)
4y ago·discuss
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Turtles Fly South for Winter(hakaimagazine.com)
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Japan’s Monkey Queen Faces Challenge to Her Reign: Mating Season(nytimes.com)
4y ago·17 comments
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Badger leads archaeologists to hoard of Roman coins in Spain(cnn.com)
4y ago·26 comments
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A Victorian-Science Murder Mystery(theatlantic.com)
4y ago·discuss
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Calculate but don’t shut up(aeon.co)
4y ago·24 comments
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Surprises from Dumping Alligators in the Sea(hakaimagazine.com)
4y ago·discuss
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The World’s Largest Bee Is Not Extinct (2019)(nytimes.com)
4y ago·discuss
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Scientists find preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird(theguardian.com)
4y ago·151 comments
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Did Girolamo Mercuriale misdiagnose a plague in sixteenth-century Venice?(laphamsquarterly.org)
4y ago·discuss
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Notebooks from the Steppe: William Bateson in Central Asia, 1886-1887 (2019)(specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk)
4y ago·1 comments
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The Astronomical Librarian(thonyc.wordpress.com)
4y ago·discuss
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A Utopia of Useful Things(laphamsquarterly.org)
4y ago·11 comments
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Slime(granta.com)
4y ago·discuss
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The experience of colour: A new book reveals the history of colour(prospectmagazine.co.uk)
4y ago·1 comments
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Mammalian Face as an Evolutionary Novelty(pnas.org)
4y ago·4 comments
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Paranormal Politics: A poltergeist sowed division in 18th-century England(historytoday.com)
4y ago·discuss
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Project Stardust: A Photographer Scours Rooftops for Minuscule Cosmic Particles(thisiscolossal.com)
4y ago·6 comments
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Trapped in amber: Fossilized dinosaur-era crab bridges evolutionary gap(arstechnica.com)
4y ago·2 comments
186 pts
Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it?(prospectmagazine.co.uk)
4y ago·355 comments
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A Mind in Pain(nybooks.com)
4y ago·1 comments
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How Old Is the Maltese, Really?(nytimes.com)
4y ago·8 comments