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Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript (2014) (theappendix.net)
509 points by arbesman 11 months ago | past | 136 comments
Blurred Forms: An Unsteady History of Drunkenness (2014) (theappendix.net)
19 points by pepys on Jan 28, 2025 | past | 1 comment
Surviving History: The Fever (2014) (theappendix.net)
23 points by benbreen on May 30, 2024 | past | 1 comment
Mana: How an Austronesian Concept Became a Video Game Mechanic (theappendix.net)
2 points by bpierre on Aug 11, 2023 | past
The Curse of Coherence: Cold War CIA Funding for Oulipo’s Confidence-Man (theappendix.net)
1 point by Caiero on July 19, 2023 | past
Spectral Passages (2013) (theappendix.net)
7 points by Thevet on May 26, 2021 | past
One Man’s Search for Meaning in a Public Library (2013) (theappendix.net)
7 points by samclemens on Nov 16, 2020 | past
Space Cadets and Rat Utopias (2014) (theappendix.net)
8 points by benbreen on Sept 14, 2020 | past
The Inventor of Karaoke Speaks (theappendix.net)
2 points by bookofjoe on Aug 24, 2020 | past | 2 comments
Supernatural Sound: Science and Shamanism in the Arctic (2013) (theappendix.net)
6 points by benbreen on Jan 22, 2020 | past
Amazonia, 1952: Finding objects recovered from a Pan Am plane crash (2012) (theappendix.net)
25 points by benbreen on Nov 9, 2019 | past
Moved by Fire: History’s Promethean Moment (2014) (theappendix.net)
23 points by benbreen on Oct 27, 2019 | past | 1 comment
Rules of the Tribe: Hardcore Punks and Hair Metal in the 1980s (2013) (theappendix.net)
47 points by tintinnabula on Oct 4, 2019 | past | 6 comments
Psalms and Silence: The Soundtrack of John Williams’s Captivity (2013) (theappendix.net)
2 points by tintinnabula on May 30, 2019 | past
Flesh Made Wood: The Invention of Artificial Refrigeration (2014) (theappendix.net)
31 points by benbreen on April 5, 2019 | past | 7 comments
Calypso’s Island: A Short History of the Apocalypse (2013) (theappendix.net)
11 points by benbreen on Jan 15, 2019 | past
An Art of Air and Fire: Brazil’s Renegade Balloonists (2014) (theappendix.net)
23 points by morsch on Jan 12, 2019 | past | 2 comments
Inside the American Museum of Natural History’s Hidden Masterpiece (2013) (theappendix.net)
29 points by Hooke on Aug 30, 2018 | past | 1 comment
When Archaeologists Talk Trash (2014) (theappendix.net)
5 points by samclemens on Aug 23, 2018 | past | 1 comment
Atomic Anxiety and the Tooth Fairy: Citizen Science in the Midwest (2014) (theappendix.net)
26 points by samclemens on July 10, 2018 | past | 8 comments
Cambodian Dancers, Auguste Rodin, and the Imperial Imagination (2014) (theappendix.net)
16 points by apollinaire on July 10, 2018 | past | 4 comments
Indelible Ink: The Deep History of Tattoo Removal (2013) (theappendix.net)
12 points by benbreen on June 16, 2018 | past | 5 comments
Of Cats and Manuscripts (2013) (theappendix.net)
29 points by mstats on June 9, 2018 | past | 2 comments
A Short History of the Executioner (2014) (theappendix.net)
44 points by lermontov on April 7, 2018 | past | 9 comments
Mining the Languages of Empire in the Early Americas (2014) (theappendix.net)
11 points by benbreen on April 2, 2018 | past
The Deep History of Email Scams (2013) (theappendix.net)
26 points by benbreen on Feb 26, 2018 | past | 1 comment
Robot of Jihad? A Guide to Tipu’s Tiger (2014) (theappendix.net)
2 points by benbreen on Oct 28, 2017 | past
Hunting Gorillas in the Land of Cannibals (2014) (theappendix.net)
5 points by benbreen on Oct 27, 2017 | past
Blurred Forms: An Unsteady History of Drunkenness (2014) (theappendix.net)
17 points by pepys on Oct 4, 2017 | past | 1 comment
Nazis in the Amazon Revisited: The Power of Rumor and Gossip (2013) (theappendix.net)
1 point by Thevet on Aug 2, 2017 | past

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