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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)

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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)

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The Youngest Daughter of the Sciences (laphamsquarterly.org)

a year ago | benbreen | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

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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)

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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)

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

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Edgar Allan Poe's America (bunkhistory.org)

a year ago | benbreen | bunkhistory.org | frontpage

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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)

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

a year ago | benbreen | harvard.edu | frontpage

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

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

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Thunderbird and Whale (wikipedia.org)

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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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

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

a year ago | benbreen | libraryhistorybuff.com | frontpage

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

a year ago | benbreen | substack.com | frontpage

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

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

a year ago | benbreen | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Bismarck’s War (historytoday.com)

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Man, Myth and Magic (johncoulthart.com)

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

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Rodrigues Solitaire (wikipedia.org)

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Hasanlu Lovers (wikipedia.org)

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

a year ago | benbreen | science.org | frontpage

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

a year ago | benbreen | historytoday.com | frontpage

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

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

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

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First United States Army Group (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | benbreen | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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

a year ago | benbreen | washingtonpost.com | best

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

a year ago | benbreen | nytimes.com | frontpage

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

a year ago | benbreen | nih.gov | best

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

a year ago | benbreen | sciencedirect.com | frontpage

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

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

a year ago | benbreen | nytimes.com | frontpage

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

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The First Map of the Moon (historytoday.com)

a year ago | benbreen | historytoday.com | frontpage

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

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

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Hallucinogenic plants in Chinese herbals (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | benbreen | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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

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

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

a year ago | benbreen | sciencedirect.com | best

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The Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Survey (medieval-graffiti.co.uk)

a year ago | benbreen | medieval-graffiti.co.uk | frontpage

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Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, revolutionary, cryptologist… suspected spy? (resobscura.substack.com)

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Nimatron (wikipedia.org)

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Kakure Kirishitan (wikipedia.org)

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Gadgets and gizmos that inspired Adam Smith (reason.com)

a year ago | benbreen | reason.com | frontpage

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Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work? (resobscura.substack.com)

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Echoes of Eco in His Library (the-tls.co.uk)

a year ago | benbreen | the-tls.co.uk | frontpage

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William Saville-Kent: Marine Biology's Unsolved Murder (2021) (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | benbreen | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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Tombs rich in artifacts discovered by Swedish expedition in Cyprus (phys.org)

a year ago | benbreen | phys.org | frontpage

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Archaean Log or the Autopoiesis of a Prokaryote (asymptotejournal.com)

a year ago | benbreen | asymptotejournal.com | frontpage

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Samuel R. Delany Reimagined Sci-Fi, Sex, and the City (newyorker.com)

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Alfred Jarry (wikipedia.org)

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Patent medicines and the history of cocaine (2020) (collegeofphysicians.org)

a year ago | benbreen | collegeofphysicians.org | frontpage

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Shifting views about psychedelic drugs require a new category for them (washingtonpost.com)

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Aristotle’s Rules for Living Well (newyorker.com)

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Margaret Cavendish’s brilliant writing was largely neglected in the 1600s (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | benbreen | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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The last day of Constantinople (blogs.bl.uk)

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Ancient Maya city discovered in Mexican jungle (reuters.com)

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Cormac McCarthy has died (nytimes.com)

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The curious death of Oppenheimer’s mistress (2015) (nuclearsecrecy.com)

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The Oldest Maps in the World (laphamsquarterly.org)

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Entertainments from a Medieval Minstrel’s Repertoire Book (oup.com)

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Hierapolis Sawmill (wikipedia.org)

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Tunguska (historytoday.com)

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Mouth gestures and their meanings around the world (2005) (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Medieval Illustrations of Bonnacons (publicdomainreview.org)

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How to Make Computers Read, See, and Organize Smells (oup.com)

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A novel about video games became a surprise best seller (nytimes.com)

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Is history written by the winners? (historytoday.com)

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The Burden of Writing: Scribes in Medieval Manuscripts (2014) (blogs.bl.uk)

a year ago | benbreen | bl.uk | frontpage

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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 69 (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | benbreen | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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In Ancient Egypt, Severed Hands Were Spoils of War (nytimes.com)

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Old Advocacy, New Algorithms: How “Devil's Advocates” Shaped AI Red Teaming (royapakzad.substack.com)

2 years ago | benbreen | substack.com | frontpage

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Pragmatic Writing Advice from the 6th Century (laphamsquarterly.org)

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The life and work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (laphamsquarterly.org)

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