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Shining the Light on Baby Crabs (hakaimagazine.com)

2 years ago | Petiver | hakaimagazine.com | frontpage

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The evolutionary innovations that wait millions of years to come good (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | Petiver | theguardian.com | frontpage

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The Paratethys Sea was the largest lake in Earth’s history (bigthink.com)

2 years ago | Petiver | bigthink.com | best

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The Rules of the Games in Tudor England (laphamsquarterly.org)

2 years ago | Petiver | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

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Family Matters: Everyday Life in the Neo-Assyrian Empire (laphamsquarterly.org)

2 years ago | Petiver | laphamsquarterly.org | best

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Club-Wielding Ancestors: Myth or Reality? (sapiens.org)

2 years ago | Petiver | sapiens.org | frontpage

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How Not to Tell the History of Science (bostonreview.net)

2 years ago | Petiver | bostonreview.net | frontpage

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A taste of Brazil: How guaraná soda became a national icon (notevenpast.org)

2 years ago | Petiver | notevenpast.org | frontpage

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May He Sweat Copiously: A doctor must practice (laphamsquarterly.org)

2 years ago | Petiver | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

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Glory or Gravity? John Hutchinson and Isaac Newton (historytoday.com)

2 years ago | Petiver | historytoday.com | frontpage

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A Wiser Sympathy: Theorizing plant intelligence in the nineteenth century (laphamsquarterly.org)

2 years ago | Petiver | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

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Monotreme Dreams (nybooks.com)

2 years ago | Petiver | nybooks.com | frontpage

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Rocks of Ages (historytoday.com)

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“Let us Calculate”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination (2016) (publicdomainreview.org)

2 years ago | Petiver | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

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Shaking Ordinary Ice (Hard) Transformed It into Something Never Seen Before (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | Petiver | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Illusory Wealth: Victor Dubreuil’s Cryptic Currencies (publicdomainreview.org)

2 years ago | Petiver | publicdomainreview.org | best

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‘The One’: Platonic particles and waves of history (wsj.com)

2 years ago | Petiver | wsj.com | frontpage

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The Problem with Silent Spring Environmentalism (newrepublic.com)

2 years ago | Petiver | newrepublic.com | newest

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‘Endless Flight’ Review: The Vision and Anguish of Joseph Roth (wsj.com)

2 years ago | Petiver | wsj.com | frontpage

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Sharp points found in Idaho could be first American-made tools (science.org)

2 years ago | Petiver | science.org | frontpage

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A Canaanite’s wish to eradicate lice on an inscribed ivory comb from Lachish [pdf] (huji.ac.il)

2 years ago | Petiver | huji.ac.il | best

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Lobster and snow crab fisheries search for alternative baits (hakaimagazine.com)

2 years ago | Petiver | hakaimagazine.com | frontpage

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Shattered by Nazi Bombs, a Fossil’s Lost Copies Are Just Being Found (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | Petiver | nytimes.com | newest

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A treasure hunt for microbes in Chile’s Atacama desert (knowablemagazine.org)

2 years ago | Petiver | knowablemagazine.org | frontpage

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The Toxic History of Color (atmos.earth)

2 years ago | Petiver | atmos.earth | frontpage

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The day the dinosaurs died (2019) (newyorker.com)

2 years ago | Petiver | newyorker.com | best

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New study reveals complex identity of ancient Britons (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | Petiver | theguardian.com | frontpage

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The Computer in the Aegean (historytoday.com)

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Cultural transmission makes animals flexible, but vulnerable (knowablemagazine.org)

2 years ago | Petiver | knowablemagazine.org | frontpage

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Exploring the richness and variety of letters sent to the East India Company (blogs.bl.uk)

2 years ago | Petiver | bl.uk | best

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A moonshot for coral breeding (hakaimagazine.com)

2 years ago | Petiver | hakaimagazine.com | best

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How the ‘black death’ left its genetic mark on future generations (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | Petiver | nytimes.com | best

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The sarcastic fringehead's broad-mouthed display is reserved for fighting (nytimes.com)

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Cork is making a comeback (bbc.com)

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The curious case of Norway’s demon wall (2021) (atlasobscura.com)

2 years ago | Petiver | atlasobscura.com | best

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Imperfect Wisdom: On Rachel Aviv’s “Strangers to Ourselves” (lareviewofbooks.org)

2 years ago | Petiver | lareviewofbooks.org | frontpage

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Fugitive Colors: A true crime story about poached butterflies (1997) (orionmagazine.org)

2 years ago | Petiver | orionmagazine.org | frontpage

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Vietnam’s ancient whale temples

2 years ago | Petiver | atlasobscura.com | best

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Mythology could help demystify dog domestication

2 years ago | Petiver | sciencenews.org | best

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Between Fact and Fable: Historical Fiction or Nonfictional Novel?

2 years ago | Petiver | lithub.com | frontpage

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St. Cuthbert's Beads

2 years ago | Petiver | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Why do some humans love chili peppers?

2 years ago | Petiver | sapiens.org | best

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Our long, vulnerable childhoods may be the key to our success

2 years ago | Petiver | spectator.co.uk | frontpage

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What Our Fantasies About the European Middle Ages Say About Us

2 years ago | Petiver | hyperallergic.com | frontpage

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A High School Teacher Changed Early 20th-Century Insect Science

2 years ago | Petiver | atlasobscura.com | frontpage