benbreen's submissions

1.		Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters (resobscura.substack.com)
		164 points by benbreen 1 day ago \| past \| 41 comments
2.		Mirror-Image Life (wikipedia.org)
		1 point by benbreen 8 days ago \| past \| discuss
3.		Ancient DNA reveals the surprising Arctic life of extinct North American cat (ucsc.edu)
		3 points by benbreen 10 days ago \| past \| discuss
4.		Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (19th Century) (publicdomainreview.org)
		6 points by benbreen 14 days ago \| past \| discuss
5.		Moby-Dick and the Indefinite Sublime: On facing the white page (yalereview.org)
		15 points by benbreen 16 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
6.		[flagged] Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto's 'Tokyo Express' (millersbookreview.com)
		27 points by benbreen 22 days ago \| past \| 11 comments
7.		Ghosts of the Past and Devils of the Present (thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com)
		8 points by benbreen 40 days ago \| past
8.		Gakutensoku (wikipedia.org)
		71 points by benbreen 43 days ago \| past \| 14 comments
9.		The Indo-European Family Tree (djbinder.com)
		91 points by benbreen 43 days ago \| past \| 97 comments
10.		D. Graham Burnett discusses the politics of attention in our algorithmic age (lareviewofbooks.org)
		3 points by benbreen 46 days ago \| past
11.		The Essential Question: “What should I read next?” (thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com)
		61 points by benbreen 50 days ago \| past \| 47 comments
12.		The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life (resobscura.substack.com)
		225 points by benbreen 51 days ago \| past \| 122 comments
13.		What nonfiction books talk about, 1960-2025 (book-prize-index.vercel.app)
		1 point by benbreen 52 days ago \| past
14.		Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony (historytoday.com)
		7 points by benbreen 54 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
15.		Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024) (resobscura.substack.com)
		117 points by benbreen 55 days ago \| past \| 25 comments
16.		Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge (publicdomainreview.org)
		2 points by benbreen 58 days ago \| past
17.		Britain's New World of Tobacco (2017) (historytoday.com)
		18 points by benbreen 58 days ago \| past
18.		Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop (resobscura.substack.com)
		492 points by benbreen 65 days ago \| past \| 240 comments
19.		Pushinka (wikipedia.org)
		50 points by benbreen 70 days ago \| past \| 15 comments
20.		The revenge of the philosophy majors (nytimes.com)
		164 points by benbreen 80 days ago \| past \| 271 comments
21.		The Victorian War on Rabies (historytoday.com)
		25 points by benbreen 81 days ago \| past \| 21 comments
22.		Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats (pnas.org)
		13 points by benbreen 86 days ago \| past
23.		The Meadows of Medieval Summer (historytoday.com)
		3 points by benbreen 87 days ago \| past
24.		Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos (theatlantic.com)
		48 points by benbreen 3 months ago \| past \| 2 comments
25.		Words, Words, Words (aeon.co)
		35 points by benbreen 3 months ago \| past \| 15 comments
26.		The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929) (publicdomainreview.org)
		29 points by benbreen 3 months ago \| past \| 11 comments
27.		Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87 (nytimes.com)
		18 points by benbreen 3 months ago \| past \| 5 comments
28.		Cypriot Graffiti in Ancient Egypt (historytoday.com)
		4 points by benbreen 3 months ago \| past
29.		Vacuum-Form Signage (bethmathews.substack.com)
		117 points by benbreen 3 months ago \| past \| 24 comments
30.		Easy Writer: On Ted Geltner's Biography of Denis Johnson (metropolitanreview.org)
		3 points by benbreen 3 months ago \| past
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