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28,171karma·1,395submissions·September 3, 2014
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I like to travel.
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111 pts
Aristotle’s (apocryphal) advice to Alexander the Great on Persian elites (2013)(purplemotes.net)
11y ago·47 comments
23 pts
Turf War: Reviving the heritage of turf houses in Iceland(roadsandkingdoms.com)
11y ago·discuss
14 pts
Recordings for Someone (2002)(thisamericanlife.org)
11y ago·discuss
7 pts
How It Must Have Been: Stephen Greenblatt on “Wolf Hall”(nybooks.com)
11y ago·discuss
45 pts
Tehran’s Promise: The revolution’s midlife crisis and the nuclear deal(newyorker.com)
11y ago·36 comments
6 pts
Rhumbline network(en.wikipedia.org)
11y ago·discuss
141 pts
The Unique Weapons of Ancient Japan(tofugu.com)
11y ago·43 comments
97 pts
The Disappearance of the World’s Greatest Free Diver(newyorker.com)
11y ago·54 comments
53 pts
Dislodged in New York(nybooks.com)
11y ago·38 comments
35 pts
Europe's Waiting Room(roadsandkingdoms.com)
11y ago·59 comments
6 pts
The Riders of the Waves(nybooks.com)
11y ago·discuss
9 pts
The Forgotten Sense (Fragment)(buenosairesreview.org)
11y ago·discuss
106 pts
What It Was Like to Seek Asylum in Medieval England(atlasobscura.com)
11y ago·70 comments
15 pts
California Street: Learning to surf in the sixties(theparisreview.org)
11y ago·5 comments
21 pts
DNA uncovers mystery migration to the Americas(bbc.com)
11y ago·5 comments
36 pts
The Magazine of the Southwest(theparisreview.org)
11y ago·9 comments
14 pts
Mapping Lexical Spread in American English [pdf](dl.dropboxusercontent.com)
11y ago·2 comments
5 pts
Legacies of British Slave-ownership(ucl.ac.uk)
11y ago·discuss
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57 pts
Lost Highways: Old roads in Vermont(bldgblog.blogspot.com)
11y ago·22 comments
612 pts
The Really Big One(newyorker.com)
11y ago·274 comments
38 pts
The Rise and Suspiciously Rapid Fall of Freedomland U.S.A.(atlasobscura.com)
11y ago·6 comments
272 pts
Mapping the U.S. By Property Value Instead of Land Area(citylab.com)
11y ago·164 comments
24 pts
The Life of the Buddha in Thai Manuscript Art(britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk)
11y ago·2 comments
4 pts
Footnote Detection: understanding a page visually at the machine level (2014)(globalcurrents.ca)
11y ago·discuss
427 pts
Thomas Piketty: “Germany has never repaid.”(medium.com)
11y ago·337 comments
45 pts
Going into space for 1,000 days presents a series of health risks(theconversation.com)
11y ago·19 comments
3 pts
Mes Aynak: Afghanistan's Buddhist buried treasure faces destruction (2013)(theguardian.com)
11y ago·discuss
31 pts
The ‘cosplay Caliphate’ of ISIS is a deadly fantasy, but a familiar one(aeon.co)
11y ago·32 comments