Articles by Petiver
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Cat Gap (wikipedia.org)

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Luke Howard's Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865) (publicdomainreview.org)

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A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson (historynewsnetwork.org)

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The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806) (publicdomainreview.org)

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A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Seeking Signs of Life on Venus (nautil.us)

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Seeking Signs of Life on Venus (nautil.us)

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Enchanting Imposters (jstor.org)

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Enchanting Imposters (jstor.org)

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Citizen Kane, the New Deal, and the Second World War (historytoday.com)

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Lonely Island Adventures (woman-of-letters.com)

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The Rise of 'Conspiracy Physics' (wsj.com)

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Crocodile Relative Was One of Dinosaurs' Most Fearsome Predators (nytimes.com)

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Creatures Apart: Shulamith Firestone's portraits of madness (bostonreview.net)

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Beyond Food and People (aeon.co)

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No Cheese Please (lrb.co.uk)

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Videos from the Amazon Reveal an Unexpected Animal Friendship (nytimes.com)

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Human Stigmergy: The world is my task list (aethermug.com)

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The Origin of the Research University (asteriskmag.com)

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The Perils of 'Design Thinking' (theatlantic.com)

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The Political Journey of Thomas Mann (hedgehogreview.com)

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Martin Crusius' Armchair Voyage (historytoday.com)

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The Tongue Is a Fire (lrb.co.uk)

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Instruments of Empire (newleftreview.org)

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Rot: A History of the Irish Famine (historytoday.com)

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Codd's Cellular Automaton (wikipedia.org)

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Muscle Memory (theamericanscholar.org)

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Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman's Revenge (1912) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Researchers search for more precise ways to measure pain (washingtonpost.com)

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The Race to Decipher Cuneiform in the 19th Century (smithsonianmag.com)

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The Prehistoric Psychopath (worksinprogress.co)

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The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Virgins (newyorker.com)

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'The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages' by Shane Bobrycki Review (historytoday.com)

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In Praise of Subspecies (aeon.co)

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Snakeskin: It's Fashionable, and It Scares Predators Away from Bird Nests (nytimes.com)

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A Dark Age Beacon (2019) (archaeology.org)

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All-or-None Law (wikipedia.org)

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Where Glaciers Melt, the Rivers Run Red (nytimes.com)

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Scratching the Surface: How geology shaped American culture (chronicle.com)

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Weeds Are Everywhere. Why Aren't We Eating Them More? (nytimes.com)

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The Saga of a Celebrated Scientist – and His Rodent Dystopia (chronicle.com)

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Was Stone Age Scandinavia Struck by Plague? (nytimes.com)

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Bumblebee Queens Prefer to Live in a Toxic Home (nytimes.com)

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Hairballs Shed Light on Man-Eating Lions' Menu (nytimes.com)

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When Two Sea Aliens Become One (nytimes.com)

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Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother (theguardian.com)

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A Trail Gone Cold (damninteresting.com)

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When a She-Bear Swims Ashore (hakaimagazine.com)

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What the photographer who’s taken philosopher portraits thinks of philosophers (aestheticsforbirds.com)

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The Analyst and the Bard (hedgehogreview.com)

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Women Who Forged Medieval England (historytoday.com)

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Here a Bee, There a Bee, Everywhere a Wild Bee (hakaimagazine.com)

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Marine worms made at least some trace fossil burrows called Bifungites (nytimes.com)

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Unusual Origin Found for Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs (nytimes.com)

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How Did Roses Get Their Thorns? (nytimes.com)

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Science Fiction Themes: What Has Changed? (2018) (gwthomas.org)

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Fossil hints that Jurassic mammals lived slow and died old (nytimes.com)

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The Plague of Lust: A History of Venereal Disease in Antiquity (1901 Edition) (publicdomainreview.org)

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"Are There Men on the Moon?": Churchill on Alien Life, 1942 (hillsdale.edu)

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A Bug's Life: David and Marian Fairchild's Book of Monsters (1914) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery (nsf.gov)

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Transforming the National Gallery, one painting at a time (apollo-magazine.com)

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The Unusual Evolutionary Journey of the Baobab Tree (nytimes.com)

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Being Green: A new book marvels at the strangeness of plants (slate.com)

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Ancient malaria genome from Roman skeleton hints at disease's history (nature.com)

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To Help the Allied War Effort, Scientists Got Drunk on Nitrogen (smithsonianmag.com)

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When Nostalgia Was Deadly (historytoday.com)

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Dark extinction: the problem of unknown historical extinctions (2021) (royalsocietypublishing.org)

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Æpyornis Island (wikipedia.org)

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Pleistocene Rewilding (wikipedia.org)

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Ancient Texts Can Shed Light on Auroras (smithsonianmag.com)

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A Swimming Dinosaur? Maybe Not, Study Says (nytimes.com)

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Renaissance Women (yalereview.org)

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'Byron: A Life in Ten Letters': The Regency's rakish rock star (wsj.com)

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Like a Top Hat: Review of Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography (lrb.co.uk)

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Space telescopes transformed our ability to understand the universe (theguardian.com)

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A Fossilized Tree That Dr. Seuss Might Have Dreamed Up (nytimes.com)

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What Is Incoherence? (aeon.co)

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The geometry of other people (aeon.co)

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What was the biggest art theft in history? (thecollector.com)

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The Early History of the Channel Tunnel (publicdomainreview.org)

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The Crypt of Civilization (2006) (damninteresting.com)

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How to Lose a Library (publicbooks.org)

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The First Costume Book: 1562 (publicdomainreview.org)

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Lake Tanganyika's Scale Eating Fish (mitpress.mit.edu)

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The naked reader: Child enslavement in the Villa of the Mysteries fresco (uchicago.edu)

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The Reluctant Levitator: Teresa of Avila's Humble Raptures (publicdomainreview.org)

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If you plant milkweed, they will come (nytimes.com)

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Collection Cost: Eighteenth-century British naturalists in west Africa (laphamsquarterly.org)

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Orthographic Depth (wikipedia.org)

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The Details Are in the Devil’s Tumors (hakaimagazine.com)

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Fluorescent mammals are far more common than earlier thought (theguardian.com)

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Naturalists Unknown: Lives marked by discovery and erasure (theamericanscholar.org)

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The possibly never-ending quest for the golden owl (atlasobscura.com)

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Open Air Schools of the 1900s (britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)

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The curious incident of the dog and the palm tree (2015) (ancientrecipes.wordpress.com)

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Health risks of travel in early-modern Britain (dralun.wordpress.com)

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Finding Hope in the Dark Power of Fungus (noemamag.com)

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Atop an Underwater Hot Spring, an ‘Octopus Garden’ Thrives (nytimes.com)

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Genome of the Tyrolean Iceman reveals unusually high Anatolian farmer ancestry (sciencedirect.com)