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46,165karma·2,755submissions·June 2, 2014
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36 pts
The Frankfurt Kitchen (2011)(moma.org)
1y ago·25 comments
68 pts
Post-postal: What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?(resobscura.substack.com)
1y ago·73 comments
3 pts
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?(historytoday.com)
1y ago·1 comments
2 pts
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs(historytoday.com)
1y ago·discuss
48 pts
Deep learning-based detection of qanat water systems using spy satellite imagery(sciencedirect.com)
1y ago·6 comments
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Author here, I had the same question and looked into it. The author of that comment seems to be onto something because hygrine is indeed found in nightshades as well as in coca. Interesting.
1y ago·view thread
161 pts
On 17th century "cocaine"(resobscura.substack.com)
1y ago·209 comments
13 pts
Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest(ageofinvention.xyz)
1y ago·discuss
59 pts
Bronze Age cheese reveals human-Lactobacillus interactions over history(cell.com)
1y ago·21 comments
1 pts
Yasuke(en.wikipedia.org)
1y ago·discuss
1 pts
The User Manual for the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World (2020)(openculture.com)
1y ago·discuss
1 pts
Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri(en.wikipedia.org)
1y ago·discuss
47 pts
Aliens and the Enlightenment(historytoday.com)
1y ago·55 comments
2 pts
How to make 3k-year-old beer(nytimes.com)
1y ago·discuss
2 pts
Excuse this ghastly handwriting: When letter writers become self-conscious(news.lettersofnote.com)
1y ago·discuss
1 pts
Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life (1722 Edition)(publicdomainreview.org)
1y ago·discuss
1 pts
Persian Silver in Early Medieval Scotland(buttondown.com)
1y ago·discuss
1 pts
Caftan (Metropolitan Museum of Art)(en.wikipedia.org)
1y ago·discuss
30 pts
Forensic toxicology backdates the use of coca plant in Europe to the early 1600s(sciencedirect.com)
1y ago·5 comments
11 pts
Early Scenes: Remembering a Childhood in the South Bronx(newyorker.com)
2y ago·2 comments
25 pts
'The Cheese and the Worms': Carlo Ginzburg Launches Microhistory(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
2y ago·4 comments
16 pts
King John's Lost Treasure(historytoday.com)
2y ago·3 comments
2 pts
The voyage of the Altar Stone: A Stonehenge mystery solved (maybe)(washingtonpost.com)
2y ago·discuss
16 pts
A Nice, Provocative Silence: An Interview with the Author of Cahokia Jazz(historynewsnetwork.org)
2y ago·discuss
76 pts
Voice is a garden: Margaret Watts Hughes's Victorian sound visualizations(themarginalian.org)
2y ago·10 comments
5 pts
Just Say It, Henry(lrb.co.uk)
2y ago·1 comments
16 pts
Ettore Majorana(en.wikipedia.org)
2y ago·7 comments
110 pts
Kepler's 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery(arstechnica.com)
2y ago·42 comments
197 pts
Lewis Lapham has died(nytimes.com)
2y ago·65 comments
1 pts
Experimental replication of early human behaviour in bird preparation(frontiersin.org)
2y ago·discuss