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Travelling Through Antique Lands
Travelling Through Antique Lands
Today we encounter the ancient world through ruins and fragments, but antiquity had its own relics to examine, and its own archaeologists…
Mike Noble
Sep 17
The Paleogene Will Begin on Thursday
The Paleogene Will Begin on Thursday
The Chicxulub impact event is perhaps too large for us to truly imagine, but it happened at the scale of a single day.
Mike Noble
Sep 10
Back to the Futurology
Back to the Futurology
The end of the nineteenth century saw a flourishing of predictions for the future. A future that has since become the past. What do these…
Mike Noble
Sep 3
The Roots of a Radical
The Roots of a Radical
When George Eliot looked at the reforming spirit of the 1860s, it reminded her of an episode from her childhood and the violence of an…
Mike Noble
Aug 27
The Life of Kalulu
The Life of Kalulu
The boy Kalulu was presented to nineteenth century audiences as an exotic curiosity from an undiscovered world but he — and his life — was…
Mike Noble
Aug 20
The Lore of the Playground
The Lore of the Playground
Children have formed, and continue to form, their own rich culture of folk traditions. A pair of researchers in the 1950s captured this…
Mike Noble
Aug 13
On Looking into the Oldest Eyes
On Looking into the Oldest Eyes
The advent of photography allowed us to capture the world around us. For a brief period, we were able to capture a world before photography…
Mike Noble
Aug 6
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