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- The Inventor of Karaoke Speaks http://theappendix.net/issues/2013/10/voice-hero-the-inventor-of-karaoke-speaks 2 comments
- Rules of the Tribe: Hardcore Punks and Hair Metal in the 1980s (2013) http://theappendix.net/issues/2013/7/rules-of-the-tribe-hardcore-punks-and-hair-metal-in-the-1980s 6 comments
- Flesh Made Wood: The Invention of Artificial Refrigeration (2014) http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/4/flesh-made-wood-the-invention-of-artificial-refrigeration 7 comments
- Atomic Anxiety and the Tooth Fairy: Citizen Science in the Midwest (2014) http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/10/atomic-anxiety-and-the-tooth-fairy-citizen-science-in-the-midcentury-midwest 8 comments
- Cambodian Dancers, Auguste Rodin, and the Imperial Imagination (2014) http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/10/cambodian-dancers-auguste-rodin-and-the-imperial-imagination 4 comments
- Indelible Ink: The Deep History of Tattoo Removal (2013) http://theappendix.net/issues/2013/10/indelible-ink-the-deep-history-of-tattoo-removal 5 comments
- Of Cats and Manuscripts (2013) http://theappendix.net/posts/2013/03/of-cats-and-manuscripts 2 comments
- A Short History of the Executioner (2014) http://theappendix.net/posts/2014/06/a-short-history-of-the-executioner 9 comments
- Box Office Bomb: “The Beginning or the End” (2012) http://theappendix.net/issues/2012/12/box-office-bomb-the-beginning-or-the-end-1947 2 comments
- We're a Zambian Band (2014) http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/7/were-a-zambian-band 9 comments
- How the Space Age Imagined 2014: Asimov's Predictions, Revisited http://theappendix.net/posts/2014/7/isaac-asimovs-predictions-of-life-in-2014-revisited 10 comments
- The Key of Hell: An Enlightenment Sorcery Manual (2014) http://theappendix.net/blog/2014/1/the-key-of-hell-a-sorcery-manual-from-the-enlightenment 5 comments
- “A Toast to Your Health”: Getting Drunk in Colonial America (2013) https://theappendix.net/blog/2013/2/getting-drunk-in-colonial-america 20 comments
- Nazi Monks Against the Panama Canal (2012) http://theappendix.net/blog/2012/11/declassified:-nazi-monks-against-the-panama-canal 4 comments
- The Double World: One Man’s Search for Meaning in the Seattle Public Library http://theappendix.net/issues/2013/4/field-notes-theory-of-a-double-world 4 comments
- How Victorian London Almost Ended Up with a Roman Sewer http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/10/how-victorian-london-almost-ended-up-with-a-roman-sewer 6 comments
- An Art of Air and Fire: Brazil’s Renegade Balloonists http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/10/an-art-of-air-and-fire-brazils-renegade-balloonists 3 comments
- The Beard That Wasn't: Abe Lincoln's Whiskers http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/4/abe-lincolns-whiskers 2 comments
- “Why Does S Look Like F?”: A Guide to Reading Very Old Books (2013) http://theappendix.net/blog/2013/7/why-does-s-look-like-f-a-guide-to-reading-very-old-books 21 comments
- Put a Propeller on It: The Golden Age of Tinkering http://theappendix.net/blog/2014/2/put-a-propeller-on-it 5 comments
- Photographing the Guillotine http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/10/photographing-the-guillotine 30 comments
- Inside the Cosmonaut Survival Kit (2013) http://theappendix.net/blog/2013/11/the-cosmonauts-survival-kit 23 comments
- A Short History of the Executioner http://theappendix.net/blog/2014/6/a-short-history-of-the-executioner 12 comments
- The Passing of the Indians Behind Glass http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/7/the-passing-of-the-indians-behind-glass 17 comments
- Voice Hero: The Inventor of Karaoke Speaks http://theappendix.net/issues/2013/10/voice-hero-the-inventor-of-karaoke-speaks 3 comments
- “The Lying Pen of the Scribes”: A Nineteenth-Century Dead Sea Scroll http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/7/the-lying-pen-of-the-scribes-a-nineteenth-century-dead-sea-scroll 4 comments
- How a colonial past shaped Star Trek’s utopian futures http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/7/futures-on-demand 20 comments
- Space Cadets and Rat Utopias http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/7/space-cadets-and-rat-utopias 2 comments
- A Renaissance Merchant's Book of Fashion http://theappendix.net/blog/2014/6/a-renaissance-merchants-book-of-fashion 3 comments
- The History of Mana: How an Austronesian Concept Became a Video Game Mechanic http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/4/the-history-of-mana-how-an-austronesian-concept-became-a-video-game-mechanic 47 comments
- Marvel Comics and the “most intricate fictional narrative in history” (2013) http://theappendix.net/issues/2012/12/days-of-future-present-marvel-comics-and-the-most-intricate-fictional-narrative-in-the-history-of-the-world 39 comments
- Where Be Monsters? The Daedalus Sea Serpent and the War for Credibility http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/4/where-be-monsters-daedalus-sea-serpent-and-war-for-credibility 29 comments
- Darwin's Children Drew All Over the “On The Origin of Species” Manuscript http://theappendix.net/blog/2014/2/darwins-children-drew-vegetable-battles-on-the-origin-of-species 43 comments
- The History of Mana (x-post from /r/fantasy) http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/4/the-history-of-mana-how-an-austronesian-concept-became-a-video-game-mechanic 7 comments linguistics
- "Why Does S Look Like F?": A Guide to Reading Very Old Books http://theappendix.net/blog/2013/7/why-does-s-look-like-f-a-guide-to-reading-very-old-books 5 comments books
- The Invention of Wireless Cryptography http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/7/the-invention-of-wireless-cryptography 3 comments crypto
- A Short History of the Executioner http://theappendix.net/blog/2014/6/a-short-history-of-the-executioner 4 comments history
- Inside the Cosmonaut Survival Kit http://theappendix.net/blog/2013/11/the-cosmonauts-survival-kit 4 comments history
- A gender-bending Basque nun who became a soldier in colonial Peru and killed her brother in Chile http://theappendix.net/issues/2013/4/open-source-lieutenant-nun 3 comments history
- Nazis in the Amazon Revisited http://theappendix.net/blog/2013/1/nazis-in-the-amazon-revisited-the-power-of-rumor-and-gossip 3 comments history