Classifying life
How do you go about organizing organisms?
Articles Tagged with history
Domesticated plants
The earliest servant
The first plant pressed into human service is probably not the one you’re thinking of.
A legacy
Unimportant history
Obscure biography
A book about someone we’d never heard of turns out to be unexpectedly interesting.
Getting quieter
A small triumph
We note an important advance in technology that has happened without fanfare.
Language change
Prepositions and infinitives
Long reads
Notice to Mariners
Software updates
A system of correction and new information long predates digital computers.