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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)
42 pts
To Be a Field of Poppies: turning cadavers into compost(harpers.org)
4y ago·50 comments
14 pts
Albert Millican’s Travels and Adventures of an Orchid Hunter (1891)(publicdomainreview.org)
4y ago·discuss
26 pts
How the lives of mothers matter to offspring survival in wild primates(johnhawks.net)
5y ago·3 comments
27 pts
Mangrove Restoration Frustration(hakaimagazine.com)
5y ago·3 comments
96 pts
Cuttlefish remember the what, when, and where of meals, even into old age(arstechnica.com)
5y ago·20 comments
1 pts
A Woolly Mammoth’s Tusks Reveal a Map of Where It Roamed in Life(nytimes.com)
5y ago·discuss
33 pts
Benjamin Banneker’s Broods of Cicadas(historytoday.com)
5y ago·discuss
51 pts
Against Persuasion(bostonreview.net)
5y ago·57 comments
3 pts
The Hard Sell of Whale Sanctuaries(hakaimagazine.com)
5y ago·discuss
7 pts
Edward Gorey's Toys(newyorker.com)
5y ago·2 comments
40 pts
Eat like Jane Austen with recipes from her sister-in-law’s cookbook(atlasobscura.com)
5y ago·9 comments
153 pts
Regarding Michael Pollan’s New Book This Is Your Mind on Plants(harpers.org)
5y ago·76 comments
2 pts
The Feminist Past History Can't Give Us(bostonreview.net)
5y ago·discuss
22 pts
Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe(lrb.co.uk)
5y ago·discuss
6 pts
An eighteenth-century pirate, troll, and nemesis of Alexander Pope(laphamsquarterly.org)
5y ago·discuss
24 pts
Can the Māori Connection to Antarctica Help Safeguard the Continent’s Future?(atlasobscura.com)
5y ago·17 comments
21 pts
Cats and the Good Life(lareviewofbooks.org)
5y ago·2 comments
41 pts
Fashion for pointy shoes unleashed plague of bunions in medieval Britain(archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com)
5y ago·18 comments
1 pts
Joseph George Strutt's Sylva Britannica (1822/1830)(publicdomainreview.org)
5y ago·discuss
1 pts
Placing the Platypus(historytoday.com)
5y ago·discuss
28 pts
Trivialism(en.wikipedia.org)
5y ago·12 comments
42 pts
The Strange Tale of the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program(daily.jstor.org)
5y ago·2 comments
86 pts
The Loaf Guardians: Parsing the Early History of the Anglo-Saxons(laphamsquarterly.org)
5y ago·12 comments
97 pts
Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper (2016)(atlasobscura.com)
5y ago·41 comments
30 pts
Reconstruction of ancient microbial genomes from the human gut(nature.com)
5y ago·3 comments
60 pts
The Hume paradox: how great philosophy leads to dismal politics(prospectmagazine.co.uk)
5y ago·56 comments
22 pts
WW1: Was it the first world war? (2014)(bbc.com)
5y ago·30 comments
55 pts
Before he wrote a thesaurus, Roget had to escape Napoleon’s dragnet(smithsonianmag.com)
5y ago·1 comments
14 pts
At Home Among the Birds: An Interview with Jonathan Meiburg(theparisreview.org)
5y ago·2 comments
164 pts
Why bumblebees love cats and other beautiful relationships(longreads.com)
5y ago·74 comments