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Why the Bronze Age collapsed

worksinprogress.news·9 pts·benbreen·
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Who wrote Elizabeth I's most scathing letters?

smithsonianmag.com·49 pts·benbreen·
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Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters

resobscura.substack.com·174 pts·benbreen·
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Mirror-Image Life

en.wikipedia.org·1 pts·benbreen·
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Ancient DNA reveals the surprising Arctic life of extinct North American cat

news.ucsc.edu·3 pts·benbreen·
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Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (19th Century)

publicdomainreview.org·6 pts·benbreen·
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Moby-Dick and the Indefinite Sublime: On facing the white page

yalereview.org·15 pts·benbreen·
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Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto's 'Tokyo Express'

millersbookreview.com·27 pts·benbreen·
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Ghosts of the Past and Devils of the Present

thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com·8 pts·benbreen·
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Gakutensoku

en.wikipedia.org·71 pts·benbreen·
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The Indo-European Family Tree

djbinder.com·91 pts·benbreen·
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D. Graham Burnett discusses the politics of attention in our algorithmic age

lareviewofbooks.org·3 pts·benbreen·
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The Essential Question: “What should I read next?”

thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com·61 pts·benbreen·
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The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life

resobscura.substack.com·225 pts·benbreen·
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What nonfiction books talk about, 1960-2025

book-prize-index.vercel.app·1 pts·benbreen·
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Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony

historytoday.com·7 pts·benbreen·
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Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024)

resobscura.substack.com·117 pts·benbreen·
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Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

publicdomainreview.org·2 pts·benbreen·
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Britain's New World of Tobacco (2017)

historytoday.com·18 pts·benbreen·
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Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop

resobscura.substack.com·492 pts·benbreen·
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Pushinka

en.wikipedia.org·50 pts·benbreen·
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The revenge of the philosophy majors

nytimes.com·164 pts·benbreen·
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The Victorian War on Rabies

historytoday.com·25 pts·benbreen·
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Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats

pnas.org·13 pts·benbreen·
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The Meadows of Medieval Summer

historytoday.com·3 pts·benbreen·
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Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos

theatlantic.com·48 pts·benbreen·
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Words, Words, Words

aeon.co·35 pts·benbreen·
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The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)

publicdomainreview.org·29 pts·benbreen·
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Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87

nytimes.com·18 pts·benbreen·
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Cypriot Graffiti in Ancient Egypt

historytoday.com·4 pts·benbreen·
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