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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)

3 days ago | benbreen | theguardian.com | frontpage

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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)

a month ago | benbreen | glyphdrawing.club | frontpage

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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)

3 months ago | benbreen | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

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

3 months ago | benbreen | arxiv.org | frontpage

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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)

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Laryngeal Theory (wikipedia.org)

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The familiar loneliness of the Kinetoscope (resobscura.substack.com)

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A luminous, brave, and unputdownable article about blurbs (countercraft.substack.com)

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Gold-Digging Ant (wikipedia.org)

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RCA and the Roaring Twenties (globalfinancialdata.com)

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Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies (resobscura.substack.com)

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2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past (resobscura.substack.com)

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Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing slave trade (2024) (nature.com)

4 months ago | benbreen | nature.com | frontpage

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Mummies' Ancient Tattoos Come Under Laser Focus (nytimes.com)

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Sutton Hoo and Syria: Anglo-Saxons who served in the Byzantine army? (oup.com)

4 months ago | benbreen | oup.com | frontpage

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How Pac-Man Revolutionized Gaming (2020) (mitpress.mit.edu)

4 months ago | benbreen | mit.edu | frontpage

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Public Domain Image Archive (pdimagearchive.org)

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Wends of Texas (wikipedia.org)

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Stone selection by wild chimpanzees shares patterns with Oldowan hominins (sciencedirect.com)

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Dancing Days of the Maya (archaeology.org)

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The accidental invention of the snow globe (2024) (smithsonianmag.com)

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Archimedes, Vitruvius and Leonardo: The Odometer Connection (2020) (scirp.org)

5 months ago | benbreen | scirp.org | frontpage

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Abstand and Ausbau Languages (wikipedia.org)

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Secondary Consciousness (wikipedia.org)

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White House Reconstruction (wikipedia.org)

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Gods: Charles Fort's Book of the Damned (1919) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Synergistic, multi-level understanding of psychedelics (nature.com)

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Why did clothing become boring? (resobscura.substack.com)

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Minakata Kumagusu (wikipedia.org)

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For the Love of a Little Sea (hakaimagazine.com)

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Magicians Mount Search for Woman Behind Decades-Old Deception (nytimes.com)

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With DNA, Pompeii Narratives Take a Twist (nytimes.com)

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Reconstruction of Lomonosov's Discovery of Venus's Atmosphere (2012) [pdf] (fnal.gov)

6 months ago | benbreen | fnal.gov | frontpage

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The Brothers Grimm: A Biography (theamericanscholar.org)

6 months ago | benbreen | theamericanscholar.org | frontpage

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Diving to Drink a 19th-Century Shipwreck's Treasure (nytimes.com)

6 months ago | benbreen | nytimes.com | frontpage

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A deep history of Halloween (resobscura.substack.com)

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The Frankfurt Kitchen (2011) (moma.org)

7 months ago | benbreen | moma.org | frontpage

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Post-postal: What did we lose when we stopped writing letters? (resobscura.substack.com)

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What Makes Good Historical Fiction? (historytoday.com)

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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs (historytoday.com)

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Deep learning-based detection of qanat water systems using spy satellite imagery (sciencedirect.com)

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On 17th century "cocaine" (resobscura.substack.com)

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Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest (ageofinvention.xyz)

7 months ago | benbreen | ageofinvention.xyz | frontpage

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Bronze Age cheese reveals human-Lactobacillus interactions over history (cell.com)

8 months ago | benbreen | cell.com | frontpage

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Yasuke (wikipedia.org)

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The User Manual for the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World (2020) (openculture.com)

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Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri (wikipedia.org)

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Aliens and the Enlightenment (historytoday.com)

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How to make 3k-year-old beer (nytimes.com)

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Excuse this ghastly handwriting: When letter writers become self-conscious (lettersofnote.com)

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Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life (1722 Edition) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Persian Silver in Early Medieval Scotland (buttondown.com/modernmedieval)

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Caftan (Metropolitan Museum of Art) (wikipedia.org)

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Forensic toxicology backdates the use of coca plant in Europe to the early 1600s (sciencedirect.com)

9 months ago | benbreen | sciencedirect.com | frontpage

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Early Scenes: Remembering a Childhood in the South Bronx (newyorker.com)

9 months ago | benbreen | newyorker.com | frontpage

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'The Cheese and the Worms': Carlo Ginzburg Launches Microhistory (mitpress.mit.edu)

9 months ago | benbreen | mit.edu | frontpage

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King John's Lost Treasure (historytoday.com)

9 months ago | benbreen | historytoday.com | frontpage

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The voyage of the Altar Stone: A Stonehenge mystery solved (maybe) (washingtonpost.com)

9 months ago | benbreen | washingtonpost.com | newest

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A Nice, Provocative Silence: An Interview with the Author of Cahokia Jazz (historynewsnetwork.org)

9 months ago | benbreen | historynewsnetwork.org | frontpage

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Voice is a garden: Margaret Watts Hughes's Victorian sound visualizations (themarginalian.org)

9 months ago | benbreen | themarginalian.org | best

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Just Say It, Henry (lrb.co.uk)

9 months ago | benbreen | lrb.co.uk | frontpage

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Ettore Majorana (wikipedia.org)

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Kepler's 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery (arstechnica.com)

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Lewis Lapham has died (nytimes.com)

10 months ago | benbreen | nytimes.com | best

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Experimental replication of early human behaviour in bird preparation (frontiersin.org)

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The Man Who Invented Times Square (mitpress.mit.edu)

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