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What do we get wrong about the Byzantine Empire? (historytoday.com)

a year ago | benbreen | historytoday.com | best

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Hex Marks the Spot (museumofplay.org)

a year ago | benbreen | museumofplay.org | newest

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An Asteroid Wiped Out Dinosaurs. Did It Help Birds Flourish? (nytimes.com)

a year ago | benbreen | nytimes.com | newest

3

The long-running joke of a moon made of cheese (snackstack.net)

a year ago | benbreen | snackstack.net | frontpage

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How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor? (resobscura.substack.com)

a year ago | benbreen | substack.com | newest

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Catch Me Who Can (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | benbreen | wikipedia.org | newest

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John Locke's recipe for Pancakes (2021) (rarecooking.com)

a year ago | benbreen | rarecooking.com | best

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Evidence of the intentional use of black henbane in the Roman Netherlands (cambridge.org)

a year ago | benbreen | cambridge.org | frontpage

4

Margaret Mead's LSD Memo (slate.com)

a year ago | benbreen | slate.com | frontpage

20

The (history of) spice must flow (resobscura.substack.com)

a year ago | benbreen | substack.com | best

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History by Numbers (2022) (aeon.co)

a year ago | benbreen | aeon.co | newest

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William Dampier, Revered and Reviled (2022) (sciencehistory.org)

a year ago | benbreen | sciencehistory.org | frontpage

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The 100-Year Extinction Panic Is Back, Right on Schedule (nytimes.com)

a year ago | benbreen | nytimes.com | newest

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Drug history is a backdoor to cultural history (resobscura.substack.com)

a year ago | benbreen | substack.com | frontpage

3

Colophon for Psymon.com (1998-2021) (psymon.com)

a year ago | benbreen | psymon.com | frontpage

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Pedestrianism (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | benbreen | wikipedia.org | newest

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Martello Tower (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | benbreen | wikipedia.org | best

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Clear Shadows (1867) (publicdomainreview.org)

a year ago | benbreen | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

3

Could LSD Have Achieved World Peace? Ask Margaret Mead (nytimes.com)

a year ago | benbreen | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science (latimes.com)

a year ago | benbreen | latimes.com | best

13

Scientists scramble to keep dog aging project alive (nytimes.com)

a year ago | benbreen | nytimes.com | best

2

Elevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis emerged in steppe pastoralists (nature.com)

a year ago | benbreen | nature.com | newest

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"Are We Automata?" by William James (1879) (yorku.ca)

a year ago | benbreen | yorku.ca | best

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Rue de l'Avenir (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | benbreen | wikipedia.org | best

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Once the world's largest, the Pennsylvania Hotel goes 'poof' before our eyes (nytimes.com)

a year ago | benbreen | nytimes.com | best

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Medieval Icelandic Feasts (historytoday.com)

a year ago | benbreen | historytoday.com | best

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Wild Pigeon Chase (noemamag.com)

a year ago | benbreen | noemamag.com | frontpage

8

The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis (historytoday.com)

a year ago | benbreen | historytoday.com | frontpage

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A Look Inside the 17th-Century Witch Trials of the Arctic Circle (lithub.com)

a year ago | benbreen | lithub.com | newest

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A silken web (aeon.co)

a year ago | benbreen | aeon.co | frontpage

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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators (resobscura.substack.com)

a year ago | benbreen | substack.com | newest

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Cabinets of curiosities laid the foundation for modern museums (smithsonianmag.com)

a year ago | benbreen | smithsonianmag.com | best

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The most interesting things I read in 2023 (resobscura.substack.com)

a year ago | benbreen | substack.com | newest

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History's most famous pot: the Meidias hydria (britishmuseum.org)

a year ago | benbreen | britishmuseum.org | frontpage

17

When Technology Follows Art (resobscura.substack.com)

a year ago | benbreen | substack.com | best

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The Vibrant Worlds of Batuan Paintings in Bali (sapiens.org)

a year ago | benbreen | sapiens.org | frontpage

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Margaret Mead, technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide (resobscura.substack.com)

a year ago | benbreen | substack.com | best

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How to use generative AI for historical research: Four real-world case studies (resobscura.substack.com)

a year ago | benbreen | substack.com | best

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From Aristocratic to Ordinary: Shifting Modes of Elite Distinction (2020) (sagepub.com)

a year ago | benbreen | sagepub.com | best

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The Early Modern English Plan to Colonize Russia (historytoday.com)

a year ago | benbreen | historytoday.com | frontpage

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A man who invented fifteen hundred necktie knots (newyorker.com)

a year ago | benbreen | newyorker.com | frontpage

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The father-son struggle that helped ensure IBM's success (nytimes.com)

a year ago | benbreen | nytimes.com | frontpage

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The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | benbreen | washingtonpost.com | best

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[flagged] Why is RC Cola popular in Tajikistan? (snackstack.net)

a year ago | benbreen | snackstack.net | frontpage

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21st Century Bard (nextbigideaclub.com)

a year ago | benbreen | nextbigideaclub.com | frontpage

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The Youngest Daughter of the Sciences (laphamsquarterly.org)

a year ago | benbreen | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

24

Which Writers Will We Remember? (biblioracle.substack.com)

a year ago | benbreen | substack.com | frontpage

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Assyrian Women of Letters (archaeology.org)

a year ago | benbreen | archaeology.org | best

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Very Slight Counterfactuals: Dick Whittington Has Children (thechatner.com)

a year ago | benbreen | thechatner.com | frontpage

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Monsters in the Middle Ages (medievalists.net)

a year ago | benbreen | medievalists.net | best

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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: An Update (resobscura.substack.com)

a year ago | benbreen | substack.com | best

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Edgar Allan Poe's America (bunkhistory.org)

a year ago | benbreen | bunkhistory.org | frontpage

15

The Trap of Fairytale Victory Endings in Historical Fiction (lithub.com)

a year ago | benbreen | lithub.com | frontpage

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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: An Update (resobscura.substack.com)

a year ago | benbreen | substack.com | newest

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Biomolecular archaeology reveals a fuller picture of the nomadic Xiongnu (news.harvard.edu)

a year ago | benbreen | harvard.edu | frontpage

25

The Largest Greek Manuscript? (blogs.bl.uk)

a year ago | benbreen | bl.uk | best

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It looks like the 23k year old human footprints at White Sands are solid (archeothoughts.wordpress.com)

a year ago | benbreen | wordpress.com | best

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Thunderbird and Whale (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | benbreen | wikipedia.org | best

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Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis (resobscura.substack.com)

a year ago | benbreen | substack.com | best

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A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words (1860) (publicdomainreview.org)

a year ago | benbreen | publicdomainreview.org | best

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Electoral graffiti found inside Pompeii house (thehistoryblog.com)

a year ago | benbreen | thehistoryblog.com | frontpage

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Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude (resobscura.substack.com)

a year ago | benbreen | substack.com | best

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The short life of New York City’s first skyscraper (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)

a year ago | benbreen | wordpress.com | best

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Was There a Qing Administrative Revolution? (cambridge.org)

a year ago | benbreen | cambridge.org | frontpage

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A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns (1837) (publicdomainreview.org)

a year ago | benbreen | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

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Kikkuli: Why do some people from the distant past become memes? (resobscura.substack.com)

a year ago | benbreen | substack.com | best

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A mystery species was discovered in trafficked pangolin scales (nytimes.com)

a year ago | benbreen | nytimes.com | frontpage

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The year Lou Reed gave up on music (nytimes.com)

a year ago | benbreen | nytimes.com | best

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Guide to searching and annotating text on maps (machines-reading-maps.github.io)

a year ago | benbreen | github.io | best

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Historical maps probably helped cause World War I (resobscura.substack.com)

a year ago | benbreen | substack.com | best

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On Being the Right Size (1926) [pdf] (ufl.edu)

a year ago | benbreen | ufl.edu | best

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The Destroyed Libraries of Louvain (2012) (libraryhistorybuff.com)

2 years ago | benbreen | libraryhistorybuff.com | frontpage

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The industrial quasi-revolution of Song dynasty China (etiennefd.substack.com)

2 years ago | benbreen | substack.com | frontpage

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Historical Objects: The Bees of Childeric I (justhistoryposts.com)

2 years ago | benbreen | justhistoryposts.com | best

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Scent of the afterlife? Scientists recreate recipe for Egyptian mummy balm (arstechnica.com)

2 years ago | benbreen | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Bismarck’s War (historytoday.com)

2 years ago | benbreen | historytoday.com | best

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Man, Myth and Magic (johncoulthart.com)

2 years ago | benbreen | johncoulthart.com | best

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Evidence for Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue revealed by multispectral imaging (2022) (sagepub.com)

2 years ago | benbreen | sagepub.com | best

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Rodrigues Solitaire (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | benbreen | wikipedia.org | newest

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Hasanlu Lovers (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | benbreen | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Pleistocene transition (science.org)

2 years ago | benbreen | science.org | frontpage

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What can historical clothing reveal that other sources cannot? (historytoday.com)

2 years ago | benbreen | historytoday.com | frontpage

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Japan's abandoned villages (japantimes.co.jp)

2 years ago | benbreen | japantimes.co.jp | best

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How Tycho Brahe really died (2001) (ips-planetarium.org)

2 years ago | benbreen | ips-planetarium.org | best

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‘Here Begins the Dark Sea’ Review: A Map from the Future (wsj.com)

2 years ago | benbreen | wsj.com | frontpage

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First United States Army Group (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | benbreen | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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How Indian artists transformed the Buddha’s absence into presence (washingtonpost.com)

2 years ago | benbreen | washingtonpost.com | best

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The Frothy Saga of the Jacuzzi Family (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | benbreen | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Dark microbiome in Atacama fossil delta unveils Mars life detection limits (nih.gov)

2 years ago | benbreen | nih.gov | best

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An arrowhead made of meteoritic iron from the late Bronze Age (sciencedirect.com)

2 years ago | benbreen | sciencedirect.com | frontpage

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Why early modern books are so beautiful (resobscura.substack.com)

2 years ago | benbreen | substack.com | best

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What Benjamin Franklin Learned While Fighting Counterfeiters (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | benbreen | nytimes.com | frontpage

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The cutting-edge cartoons of Winsor McCay (jstor.org)

2 years ago | benbreen | jstor.org | best

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The First Map of the Moon (historytoday.com)

2 years ago | benbreen | historytoday.com | frontpage

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Earliest curry in Southeast Asia and the global spice trade 2000 years ago (science.org)

2 years ago | benbreen | science.org | newest

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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular? (resobscura.substack.com)

2 years ago | benbreen | substack.com | best

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Hallucinogenic plants in Chinese herbals (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | benbreen | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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The persistence of the Saturday Evening Post (2021) (cjr.org)

2 years ago | benbreen | cjr.org | frontpage

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Stone walls and historical harbors are unexpected havens of biodiversity (hakaimagazine.com)

2 years ago | benbreen | hakaimagazine.com | best

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Bayesian methods to provide probablistic solution for the Drake equation (2019) (sciencedirect.com)

2 years ago | benbreen | sciencedirect.com | best