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1.Mirror-Image Life (wikipedia.org)
1 point by benbreen 21 hours ago | past | discuss
2.Ancient DNA reveals the surprising Arctic life of extinct North American cat (ucsc.edu)
3 points by benbreen 2 days ago | past | discuss
3.Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (19th Century) (publicdomainreview.org)
6 points by benbreen 7 days ago | past | discuss
4.Moby-Dick and the Indefinite Sublime: On facing the white page (yalereview.org)
15 points by benbreen 8 days ago | past | 1 comment
5. [flagged] Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto's 'Tokyo Express' (millersbookreview.com)
27 points by benbreen 14 days ago | past | 11 comments
6.Ghosts of the Past and Devils of the Present (thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com)
8 points by benbreen 32 days ago | past
7.Gakutensoku (wikipedia.org)
71 points by benbreen 35 days ago | past | 13 comments
8.The Indo-European Family Tree (djbinder.com)
91 points by benbreen 36 days ago | past | 97 comments
9.D. Graham Burnett discusses the politics of attention in our algorithmic age (lareviewofbooks.org)
3 points by benbreen 38 days ago | past
10.The Essential Question: “What should I read next?” (thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com)
61 points by benbreen 43 days ago | past | 47 comments
11.The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life (resobscura.substack.com)
225 points by benbreen 43 days ago | past | 122 comments
12.What nonfiction books talk about, 1960-2025 (book-prize-index.vercel.app)
1 point by benbreen 45 days ago | past
13.Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony (historytoday.com)
7 points by benbreen 47 days ago | past | 1 comment
14.Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024) (resobscura.substack.com)
117 points by benbreen 48 days ago | past | 25 comments
15.Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge (publicdomainreview.org)
2 points by benbreen 50 days ago | past
16.Britain's New World of Tobacco (2017) (historytoday.com)
18 points by benbreen 51 days ago | past
17.Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop (resobscura.substack.com)
492 points by benbreen 57 days ago | past | 240 comments
18.Pushinka (wikipedia.org)
50 points by benbreen 63 days ago | past | 15 comments
19.The revenge of the philosophy majors (nytimes.com)
164 points by benbreen 72 days ago | past | 271 comments
20.The Victorian War on Rabies (historytoday.com)
25 points by benbreen 73 days ago | past | 21 comments
21.Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats (pnas.org)
13 points by benbreen 78 days ago | past
22.The Meadows of Medieval Summer (historytoday.com)
3 points by benbreen 80 days ago | past
23.Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos (theatlantic.com)
48 points by benbreen 85 days ago | past | 2 comments
24.Words, Words, Words (aeon.co)
35 points by benbreen 87 days ago | past | 15 comments
25.The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929) (publicdomainreview.org)
29 points by benbreen 88 days ago | past | 11 comments
26.Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87 (nytimes.com)
18 points by benbreen 3 months ago | past | 5 comments
27.Cypriot Graffiti in Ancient Egypt (historytoday.com)
4 points by benbreen 3 months ago | past
28.Vacuum-Form Signage (bethmathews.substack.com)
117 points by benbreen 3 months ago | past | 24 comments
29.Easy Writer: On Ted Geltner's Biography of Denis Johnson (metropolitanreview.org)
3 points by benbreen 3 months ago | past
30. [dupe] Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test (arstechnica.com)
209 points by benbreen 3 months ago | past | 8 comments

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