Petiver

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

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Fri Nov 7, 2025 6:16am PST

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

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Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:01am PST

Seeking Signs of Life on Venus

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Wed Oct 22, 2025 6:41am PST

Enchanting Imposters

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Enchanting Imposters

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Sun Oct 12, 2025 6:53pm PST

Citizen Kane, the New Deal, and the Second World War

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Lonely Island Adventures

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Tues Sep 16, 2025 4:32am PST

The Rise of 'Conspiracy Physics'

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Fri Aug 29, 2025 4:18am PST

Crocodile Relative Was One of Dinosaurs' Most Fearsome Predators

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Sat Aug 23, 2025 11:32pm PST

Creatures Apart: Shulamith Firestone's portraits of madness

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Sun Jul 27, 2025 7:11am PST

Beyond Food and People

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No Cheese Please

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Videos from the Amazon Reveal an Unexpected Animal Friendship

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Tues Jul 15, 2025 7:27pm PST

Human Stigmergy: The world is my task list

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The Origin of the Research University

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The Perils of 'Design Thinking'

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The Political Journey of Thomas Mann

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Mon May 19, 2025 10:01pm PST

Martin Crusius' Armchair Voyage

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The Tongue Is a Fire

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Instruments of Empire

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Mon May 5, 2025 4:00am PST

Rot: A History of the Irish Famine

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Codd's Cellular Automaton

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Fri Apr 11, 2025 6:03am PST

Muscle Memory

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Mon Mar 31, 2025 5:35am PST

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

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Mon Mar 24, 2025 3:57am PST

Researchers search for more precise ways to measure pain

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The Race to Decipher Cuneiform in the 19th Century

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The Prehistoric Psychopath

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Mon Mar 17, 2025 4:29am PST

The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Virgins

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Fri Feb 21, 2025 5:35am PST

'The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages' by Shane Bobrycki Review

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Mon Feb 3, 2025 10:17pm PST

In Praise of Subspecies

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Sun Jan 26, 2025 5:39pm PST

Snakeskin: It's Fashionable, and It Scares Predators Away from Bird Nests

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Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:27am PST

A Dark Age Beacon (2019)

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All-or-None Law

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Where Glaciers Melt, the Rivers Run Red

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Scratching the Surface: How geology shaped American culture

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Mon Nov 11, 2024 5:25am PST

Weeds Are Everywhere. Why Aren't We Eating Them More?

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The Saga of a Celebrated Scientist – and His Rodent Dystopia

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Was Stone Age Scandinavia Struck by Plague?

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Mon Oct 14, 2024 3:58pm PST

Hairballs Shed Light on Man-Eating Lions' Menu

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When Two Sea Aliens Become One

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Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother

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A Trail Gone Cold

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When a She-Bear Swims Ashore

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What the photographer who’s taken philosopher portraits thinks of philosophers

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The Analyst and the Bard

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Women Who Forged Medieval England

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Mon Sep 2, 2024 6:30am PST

Here a Bee, There a Bee, Everywhere a Wild Bee

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Marine worms made at least some trace fossil burrows called Bifungites

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Unusual Origin Found for Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs

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Mon Aug 5, 2024 7:33pm PST

How Did Roses Get Their Thorns?

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Tues Jul 30, 2024 4:08am PST

Science Fiction Themes: What Has Changed? (2018)

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Wed Jul 24, 2024 11:27pm PST

Fossil hints that Jurassic mammals lived slow and died old

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

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"Are There Men on the Moon?": Churchill on Alien Life, 1942

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Wed Jul 10, 2024 5:14am PST

David and Marian Fairchild's Book of Monsters (1914)

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Sat Jun 15, 2024 3:35am PST

Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery

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Transforming the National Gallery, one painting at a time

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Wed May 15, 2024 10:23pm PST

The Unusual Evolutionary Journey of the Baobab Tree

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Being Green: A new book marvels at the strangeness of plants

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Ancient malaria genome from Roman skeleton hints at disease's history

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To Help the Allied War Effort, Scientists Got Drunk on Nitrogen

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Sat Apr 13, 2024 5:38am PST

When Nostalgia Was Deadly

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

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Æpyornis Island

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Thurs Mar 28, 2024 7:34pm PST

Pleistocene Rewilding

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Ancient Texts Can Shed Light on Auroras

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A Swimming Dinosaur? Maybe Not, Study Says

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Renaissance Women

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'Byron: A Life in Ten Letters': The Regency's rakish rock star

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Like a Top Hat: Review of Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography

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Space telescopes transformed our ability to understand the universe

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A Fossilized Tree That Dr. Seuss Might Have Dreamed Up

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Mon Jan 29, 2024 4:53am PST

What Is Incoherence?

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The geometry of other people

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What was the biggest art theft in history?

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The Early History of the Channel Tunnel

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The Crypt of Civilization (2006)

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How to Lose a Library

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The First Costume Book: 1562

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Lake Tanganyika's Scale Eating Fish

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The naked reader: Child enslavement in the Villa of the Mysteries fresco

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The Reluctant Levitator: Teresa of Avila's Humble Raptures

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If you plant milkweed, they will come

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Collection Cost: Eighteenth-century British naturalists in west Africa

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Orthographic Depth

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The Details Are in the Devil’s Tumors

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Fluorescent mammals are far more common than earlier thought

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Naturalists Unknown: Lives marked by discovery and erasure

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The possibly never-ending quest for the golden owl

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Open Air Schools of the 1900s

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The curious incident of the dog and the palm tree (2015)

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Health risks of travel in early-modern Britain

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Finding Hope in the Dark Power of Fungus

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Atop an Underwater Hot Spring, an ‘Octopus Garden’ Thrives

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Genome of the Tyrolean Iceman reveals unusually high Anatolian farmer ancestry

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Carl Linnaeus Set Out to Label All of Life

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Earliest glass workshop north of the Alps discovered

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Insights into the genetic histories and lifeways of Machu Picchu’s occupants

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