Articles by benbreen
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Show HN: Gemini 3 imagines Hacker News as a HyperCard stack in 1994 (hyper-card-hacker-news.vercel.app)

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I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years (resobscura.substack.com)

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Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk? (nytimes.com)

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Tom Stoppard's Ordinary Magic (commonreader.co.uk)

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Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (wikipedia.org)

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Stereo Images of Giant Galaxies (bbc.com)

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How well can Gemini 3 make a Henry James simulator? (resobscura.substack.com)

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Can automation help make the humanities more human? (resobscura.substack.com)

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Aptronym (wikipedia.org)

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What happened with the CIA and The Paris Review? (theparisreview.org)

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The debate over a tech breakthrough raising questions about life itself (washingtonpost.com)

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Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire (nature.com)

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The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot (resobscura.substack.com)

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Artificial Versifying (2019) (jeffreymbinder.net)

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Can automation help make the humanities more human? (resobscura.substack.com)

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The Transformations of Fernand Braudel (historytoday.com)

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The Future of Space Is More Than Human (noemamag.com)

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Scopist (wikipedia.org)

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Thieves steal treasured jewelry from Louvre in 7-minute daylight heist (washingtonpost.com)

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Baltasar Gracián (wikipedia.org)

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Bédélia (wikipedia.org)

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Thishereness (lrb.co.uk)

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Modesty Is Not a Virtue: Norbert Wiener (1995) (nyu.edu)

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The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot (resobscura.substack.com)

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Making sure AI serves people and knowledge stays human (wikimedia.org)

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"You Think Me a Bold Cheat": Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess (publicdomainreview.org)

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Mystery in the Moon (engelsbergideas.com)

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Considered Harmful (wikipedia.org)

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Victorian Science's Duck-Billed Enigma (historytoday.com)

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Evidentiality (wikipedia.org)

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William James at CERN (1995) (bactra.org)

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The first inkjet printer was a medical device (ieee.org)

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The First Inkjet Printer Was a Medical Device (ieee.org)

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Kucha (wikipedia.org)

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The Aueteur's Caretaker (2012) (cjr.org)

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Antis (Dog) (wikipedia.org)

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How to Build a Medieval Castle (archaeology.org)

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All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning (resobscura.substack.com)

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Governate of Terra Australis (wikipedia.org)

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Slab City, California (wikipedia.org)

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The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved (bbc.com)

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OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery (resobscura.substack.com)

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"Bring Your Whole Self" – Unless You Have a Toddler (royapakzad.substack.com)

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"Bring Your Whole Self" – Unless You Have a Toddler (royapakzad.substack.com)

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The Brilliant Cruelty of Henry James's Criticism (washingtonpost.com)

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A Handshake in Orbit 50 Years Ago Transformed the Space Race (nytimes.com)

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Local Hole (wikipedia.org)

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Why Science Hasn't Solved Consciousness (Yet) (noemamag.com)

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Early Triassic super-greenhouse climate driven by vegetation collapse (nature.com)

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Kamishibai (wikipedia.org)

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The Adding Machine (wikipedia.org)

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Scientists Retrace 30k-Year-Old Sea Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log (nytimes.com)

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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (wikipedia.org)

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The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull and a bitter feud over humanity's origins (theguardian.com)

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Defending adverbs exuberantly if conditionally (countercraft.substack.com)

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Sid Meier's Pirates – In-depth (2017) (shot97retro.blogspot.com)

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The Art of the Critic (metropolitanreview.org)

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Making maps with noise functions (2022) (redblobgames.com)

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Why were Belle Époque cities beautiful? (resobscura.substack.com)

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William James's Grief (2024) (frontporchrepublic.com)

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Onfim's world: Child artists in history (resobscura.substack.com)

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Ninth Bridgewater Treatise (wikipedia.org)

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As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade (publicdomainreview.org)

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[flagged] Henry James's family tried to keep him in the closet (2016) (theguardian.com)

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Hill or High Water (royalsociety.org)

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AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder (resobscura.substack.com)

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The Once and Future Genius (literaryreview.co.uk)

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Henry James's family tried to keep him in the closet (2016) (theguardian.com)

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Shakespeare may not have been a remote husband, new study finds (washingtonpost.com)

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How Much Should You Know About Your Child Before He's Born? (newyorker.com)

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Henry James was not at home in America (newrepublic.com)

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Georgetown–IBM Experiment (wikipedia.org)

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Mistaking Mary Magdalene (newyorker.com)

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Home Depot's $20B secret garden (wsj.com)

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Onfim's World: Child artists in history (resobscura.substack.com)

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Typographic Pictures Composed Entirely of Brass Rule (2024) (glyphdrawing.club)

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When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI (resobscura.substack.com)

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Lapham's Quarterly Announces New Stewardship (laphamsquarterly.org)

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Legacy of the Angels (aeon.co)

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The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil (washingtonpost.com)

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Pain Management Before Anaesthetics (historytoday.com)

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Small Archives (helloruby.substack.com)

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Somnium Scipionis (wikipedia.org)

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Diobolgeldæ (The Devil's Money): The Early-Medieval Cult Site of Hezingen (tandfonline.com)

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Games We Played (marginalrevolution.com)

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AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research (resobscura.substack.com)

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Lonesome George (wikipedia.org)

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The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly's Glimpses of the Future (1888) (publicdomainreview.org)

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The Emperor's New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia (publicdomainreview.org)

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Rifling through the archives with Robert Caro (smithsonianmag.com)

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Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder's Twelve Proverbs (1558) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Computer Simulation of Neural Networks Using Spreadsheets (2018) (arxiv.org)

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An Economic Approach to Homer's Odyssey: Part I (econlib.org)

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Turtle (Submersible) (wikipedia.org)

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Incised artefacts from the Middle Palaeolithic and human behavioural complexity (springer.com)

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Shadows of the Coming Race (1879) (online-literature.com)

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George Eliot's reflections on AGI from 1879 (learningfromexamples.com)

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Edgware 1924: The Making of a Suburb (modernism-in-metroland.co.uk)

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Wolf Interval (wikipedia.org)

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An Egyptian Temple Reborn (archaeology.org)