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Riches from the Mouth of Hell: The dark legacy of Potosi (worldhistory.substack.com)

3 days ago | crescit_eundo | substack.com | newest

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I Was Here: Tourist graffiti through the ages (worldhistory.substack.com)

a week ago | crescit_eundo | substack.com | newest

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Nights of Misery: Insomnia through the ages (worldhistory.substack.com)

2 weeks ago | crescit_eundo | substack.com | newest

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Digital Infrastructure Solutions to Advance Data Agency in the Age of AI [pdf] (projectliberty.io)

2 weeks ago | crescit_eundo | projectliberty.io | newest

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How Can Data Cooperatives Help Build a Fair Data Economy? [pdf] (projectliberty.io)

2 weeks ago | crescit_eundo | projectliberty.io | newest

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The social media platform that shares profits: A new vision for social media (projectliberty.io)

2 weeks ago | crescit_eundo | projectliberty.io | newest

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How Technology Shapes Our Perception (projectliberty.io)

2 weeks ago | crescit_eundo | projectliberty.io | newest

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An Early Modern Richard Scarry: The Joy of Noticing in C. Weiditz's Trachtenbuch (worldhistory.substack.com)

2 weeks ago | crescit_eundo | substack.com | newest

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The Epic, the Novel, and Rawls: Precursors to Rawls' a Theory of Justice (fromthenew.world)

2 weeks ago | crescit_eundo | fromthenew.world | newest

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Regency Sex Ed (historynewsnetwork.org)

2 weeks ago | crescit_eundo | historynewsnetwork.org | frontpage

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French modernists were alarmed, inspired by newspaper's voracious dynamism (aeon.co)

2 weeks ago | crescit_eundo | aeon.co | best

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I am offering mentoring: In which I help you (dynomight.substack.com)

2 weeks ago | crescit_eundo | substack.com | frontpage

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FOSDEM and DMA updates and 2025 YH4F and Our visions for 2048 (fsfe.org)

3 weeks ago | crescit_eundo | fsfe.org | frontpage

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Links for January (dynomight.net)

3 weeks ago | crescit_eundo | dynomight.net | newest

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The Power of (and the Problem with) Names (worldhistory.substack.com)

4 weeks ago | crescit_eundo | substack.com | newest

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The world of 1930s public health posters (worldhistory.substack.com)

4 weeks ago | crescit_eundo | substack.com | frontpage

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Why I'm skeptical of minimum prices for ride-sharing (because they're bad) (dynomight.substack.com)

a month ago | crescit_eundo | substack.com | newest

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War, Bureaucracy, and Divine Commerce (worldhistory.substack.com)

a month ago | crescit_eundo | substack.com | newest

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Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics III (dynomight.substack.com)

a month ago | crescit_eundo | substack.com | newest

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Atoms with Consciousness: Yo-Yo Ma Performs Feynman's Ode to the Wonder of Life (themarginalian.org)

a month ago | crescit_eundo | themarginalian.org | newest

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Echoes of Rage: Our new age of violence looks a lot like the Gilded Age (worldhistory.substack.com)

a month ago | crescit_eundo | substack.com | frontpage

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Merry Christmas from the Johnsons (warontherocks.com)

a month ago | crescit_eundo | warontherocks.com | newest

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The Myth of Bananaland (worldhistory.substack.com)

a month ago | crescit_eundo | substack.com | best

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There Was No Sorcerer: Box Office Poison, Hollywood's Story in Century of Flops (literaryreview.co.uk)

a month ago | crescit_eundo | literaryreview.co.uk | frontpage

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A Student of the American Character (theamericanconservative.com)

a month ago | crescit_eundo | theamericanconservative.com | newest

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Melons and Melancholy: "Eating and Being" illuminates the dynamics of dietetics (lareviewofbooks.org)

a month ago | crescit_eundo | lareviewofbooks.org | frontpage

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AI and democracy: Early technologists should have paid attention to John Dewey (bostonreview.net)

a month ago | crescit_eundo | bostonreview.net | newest

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Does This Taste Poisoned to You? The perilous lives of food tasters (worldhistory.substack.com)

2 months ago | crescit_eundo | substack.com | newest

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Metal–organic framework captures CO₂ at industrially relevant temperatures (chemistryworld.com)

2 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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Texas Asks If Index Funds Are Illegal (bloomberg.com)

2 months ago | crescit_eundo | bloomberg.com | newest

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Underrated reasons to be thankful IV (dynomight.substack.com)

3 months ago | crescit_eundo | substack.com | newest

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Colour-changing textiles for temperature regulation (chemistryworld.com)

3 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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The Roots of Public Mistrust: Science, Policy and Academic Integrity (sapirjournal.org)

3 months ago | crescit_eundo | sapirjournal.org | newest

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UK Research and Innovation harmonises doctoral training cutting 9 programs to 2 (chemistryworld.com)

3 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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Standard Atomic Weights of Three Technology Critical Elements Revised (iupac.org)

3 months ago | crescit_eundo | iupac.org | newest

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Gadolinium, lutetium, and zirconium all have new atomic weights (chemistryworld.com)

3 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess (dynomight.substack.com)

3 months ago | crescit_eundo | substack.com | best

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The race to commercialise nuclear-powered batteries (chemistryworld.com)

3 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | frontpage

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Attitudes one can take towards people who have behaved badly (dynomight.substack.com)

3 months ago | crescit_eundo | substack.com | newest

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Easy to remove tag could make mRNA synthesis for vaccines quicker and cheaper (chemistryworld.com)

3 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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'Magic mud' gives baseball pitchers a better grip (chemistryworld.com)

3 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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Skeletal editing technique removes nitrogen atoms from rotaxanes (chemistryworld.com)

3 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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New database highlights gaps in plastic monitoring efforts (chemistryworld.com)

3 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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How 'magic mud' gives baseball pitchers a better grip (chemistryworld.com)

3 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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Key stages in the decline of academic Marxism (josephheath.substack.com)

3 months ago | crescit_eundo | substack.com | newest

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The Saga of Celebrated Scientist John Calhoun and His Rodent Dystopia (chronicle.com)

3 months ago | crescit_eundo | chronicle.com | newest

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Graphene oxide sponge soaks up gold from electronic waste (chemistryworld.com)

4 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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Lessons from a Nobel laureate teach us how to think better (chemistryworld.com)

4 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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Sanofi spins out its consumer healthcare business (chemistryworld.com)

4 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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Online archive of Humphry Davy's notebooks opens to the public (chemistryworld.com)

4 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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The Key of Hell: An 18th-Century Manual on Black Magic (publicdomainreview.org)

4 months ago | crescit_eundo | publicdomainreview.org | newest

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Hokusai's five ghoulish prints for the series Hyaku Monogatari (ca. 1830) (publicdomainreview.org)

3 months ago | crescit_eundo | publicdomainreview.org | best

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A collection of Halloween postcards from "golden age" of picture postcards (publicdomainreview.org)

4 months ago | crescit_eundo | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

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Arithmetic is an underrated world-modeling technology (dynomight.substack.com)

4 months ago | crescit_eundo | substack.com | frontpage

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Why protein design and structure prediction won the 2024 Chemistry Nobel Prize (chemistryworld.com)

4 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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Make It Awkward: Awkwardness is a chance to rewrite the social script (aeon.co)

5 months ago | crescit_eundo | aeon.co | newest

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The supersonic dream died in the 20th century. Can the 21st century revive it? (arenamag.com)

6 months ago | crescit_eundo | arenamag.com | newest

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Therapeutic proteins can hitch a ride on parasite to bypass blood-brain barrier (chemistryworld.com)

6 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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Chemical 'waves' used to encode words as Morse code (chemistryworld.com)

6 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | frontpage

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Scenes of Reading on the Early Portrait Postcard (publicdomainreview.org)

7 months ago | crescit_eundo | publicdomainreview.org | newest

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Dielectric Breakdown: Imaging study illuminates new type of electrical tree (chemistryworld.com)

7 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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Chinese-born chemist cleared of last conviction under US’s espionage probe (chemistryworld.com)

7 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | best

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Computer program 'paints' porphyrin structures in the style of Piet Mondrian (chemistryworld.com)

7 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | frontpage

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Solzhenitsyn Warned Us (commentary.org)

7 months ago | crescit_eundo | commentary.org | frontpage

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Is DNA the future of digital data storage? (chemistryworld.com)

7 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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"You Are My Friend": Early Androids and Artificial Speech (publicdomainreview.org)

9 months ago | crescit_eundo | publicdomainreview.org | newest

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Physical chemistry textbook now free to download as a 'gift' to the community (chemistryworld.com)

9 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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Scrabble, Anonymous (theparisreview.org)

9 months ago | crescit_eundo | theparisreview.org | best

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Irresistible Revolution: Remember what waking was like before smartphones? (thepointmag.com)

9 months ago | crescit_eundo | thepointmag.com | newest

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Jim Simons, Code Breaker Who Mastered Investing, Dies at 86 (bloomberg.com)

9 months ago | crescit_eundo | bloomberg.com | newest

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Illuminating Antiaromaticity (chemistryworld.com)

10 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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New mechanism potentially linked to Alzheimer's earliest stages identified (chemistryworld.com)

10 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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Screening reveals 'undrugged, yet druggable' proteins (chemistryworld.com)

10 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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Liquid metal synthesis of diamonds achieved at atmospheric pressure (chemistryworld.com)

10 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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Signs and Wonders: Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany (publicdomainreview.org)

10 months ago | crescit_eundo | publicdomainreview.org | newest

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Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater's Occult Chemistry (1908) (publicdomainreview.org)

10 months ago | crescit_eundo | publicdomainreview.org | newest

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Manuscript of Ismail al-Jazarī's Ingenious Mechanical Devices (ca. 17th century) (publicdomainreview.org)

10 months ago | crescit_eundo | publicdomainreview.org | newest

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Self-dyeing vegan leather made by genetically engineered bacteria (chemistryworld.com)

10 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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£124M national electron microscope facility to be constructed in Cheshire (chemistryworld.com)

10 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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Amazon is filled with garbage e-books, this is how they get made (vox.com)

10 months ago | crescit_eundo | vox.com | best

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A key chemistry journal disappeared from the web. Others are at risk (chemistryworld.com)

10 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | frontpage

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Monitoring PFAS pollutants in king penguins (chemistryworld.com)

10 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | frontpage

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Chemists and linguists encode Confucian proverb using sequence-defined polymers (chemistryworld.com)

10 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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3M finalises PFAS settlement with US water suppliers (chemistryworld.com)

10 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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Roll-to-roll system points way to cheap printed perovskite solar cells (chemistryworld.com)

10 months ago | crescit_eundo | chemistryworld.com | newest

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Statement on the Death of Professor Peter Higgs from The University of Edinburgh (ed.ac.uk)

10 months ago | crescit_eundo | ed.ac.uk | newest

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Self-assembly of complex systems: Hexagonal building blocks are better (sciencedaily.com)

10 months ago | crescit_eundo | sciencedaily.com | newest

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Amulets in Medieval England: Protect grain, help children understand crows (lrb.co.uk)

10 months ago | crescit_eundo | lrb.co.uk | newest

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Gender, Troubled – Judith Butler's Culture War Misfire (thedriftmag.com)

11 months ago | crescit_eundo | thedriftmag.com | newest

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Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705) (publicdomainreview.org)

11 months ago | crescit_eundo | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

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I Also Am Formed Out of the Clay: Animated Putty (1911) (publicdomainreview.org)

11 months ago | crescit_eundo | publicdomainreview.org | newest

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The Age of Impoliteness: Galateo's Treatise on Delicacy of Manners (1774) (publicdomainreview.org)

11 months ago | crescit_eundo | publicdomainreview.org | newest

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Illustrations from Vincenzo Requeno's Discovery of Chironomia (1797) (publicdomainreview.org)

11 months ago | crescit_eundo | publicdomainreview.org | newest

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Tantalizing, Unsentimental, American Prophet (tabletmag.com)

11 months ago | crescit_eundo | tabletmag.com | newest

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Syncretic Past: Black weddings, vampire plagues, a blood tax (newleftreview.org)

11 months ago | crescit_eundo | newleftreview.org | newest

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Faculty group calls on Yale to make teaching 'distinct from activism' (yaledailynews.com)

12 months ago | crescit_eundo | yaledailynews.com | best

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Is the distinction between LLMs and human creativity one of degree or difference (unherd.com)

12 months ago | crescit_eundo | unherd.com | newest

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Beyond the Exaltation of the Individual Dancer: The Social Dimension of Dance (hedgehogreview.com)

12 months ago | crescit_eundo | hedgehogreview.com | newest

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Does copyright help artists? Not necessarily, say these writers (washingtonpost.com)

12 months ago | crescit_eundo | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Milton Friedman's Rise and Fall (firstthings.com)

12 months ago | crescit_eundo | firstthings.com | newest