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46,165karma·2,755submissions·June 2, 2014
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13 pts
The Man Who Invented Times Square(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
2y ago·1 comments
1 pts
Agenda (1988 Video Game)(en.wikipedia.org)
2y ago·discuss
210 pts
Paper cuttings made by 17th-century schoolgirls discovered beneath floorboards(smithsonianmag.com)
2y ago·89 comments
3 pts
Identification and measurement of economic growth in a Roman imperial province(science.org)
2y ago·discuss
113 pts
Johannes Hartlieb's Book of Herbs (1462)(publicdomainreview.org)
2y ago·22 comments
2 pts
How the Denisovans Survived the Ice Age(nytimes.com)
2y ago·discuss
3 pts
World’s End (1980)(lrb.co.uk)
2y ago·discuss
74 pts
Antidotes for Melancholy in Early Modern England(folger.edu)
2y ago·3 comments
62 pts
The Mysterious, Deep-Dwelling Microbes That Sculpt Our Planet(nytimes.com)
2y ago·11 comments
60 pts
Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought(nature.com)
2y ago·4 comments
24 pts
The Mind Is a Metaphor: About the Database(metaphors.lib.virginia.edu)
2y ago·discuss
1 pts
A Benchmark for Learning to Translate a New Language from One Grammar Book(arxiv.org)
2y ago·discuss
74 pts
Diagraming sentences in the 19th century(publicdomainreview.org)
2y ago·37 comments
36 pts
Oulipo's use of the Tohoku paper (2014)(neverendingbooks.org)
2y ago·18 comments
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Reading this now and really enjoying it. Here's a brief review from Stewart Brand: https://twitter.com/stewartbrand/status/1800941614287946003 …
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48 pts
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece(historytoday.com)
2y ago·1 comments
84 pts
Centuries of Childhood(resobscura.substack.com)
2y ago·42 comments
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Same. I emailed him about whether he'd ever met Margaret Mead, John C. Lilly, or Gregory Bateson in the 1960s while researching my book. I got this reply within hours: "Afraid I never met an…
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146 pts
Francis Ford Coppola's “Godfather Notebook”(jillianhess.substack.com)
2y ago·26 comments
95 pts
Edo-period teens tackling math's toughest problems(nippon.com)
2y ago·15 comments
49 pts
In the Ruins of Edward Gibbon's Masterpiece(newrepublic.com)
2y ago·26 comments
28 pts
Beginning the End: In the zero thickness of the International Date Line (2009)(cabinetmagazine.org)
2y ago·3 comments
45 pts
Just Live(drb.ie)
2y ago·51 comments
23 pts
Surviving History: The Fever (2014)(theappendix.net)
2y ago·1 comments
2 pts
A Computational Approach to the Nineteenth-Century Language of Technology (2023)(muse.jhu.edu)
2y ago·discuss
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Amateur Historians Heard Tales of a Lost Tudor Palace. Then, They Dug It Up(nytimes.com)
2y ago·1 comments
1 pts
Why I love etymologies(resobscura.substack.com)
2y ago·discuss