benbreen

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Mirror-Image Life(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by benbreen 19h ago|0 comments
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Ancient DNA reveals the surprising Arctic life of extinct North American cat(news.ucsc.edu)
3 points by benbreen 2d ago|0 comments
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Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (19th Century)(publicdomainreview.org)
6 points by benbreen 7d ago|0 comments
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Moby-Dick and the Indefinite Sublime: On facing the white page(yalereview.org)
15 points by benbreen 9d ago|1 comments
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Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto's 'Tokyo Express'(millersbookreview.com)
27 points by benbreen 15d ago|11 comments
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by benbreen 17d ago
I’m currently at the Archaeological Museum in Istanbul. Was just thinking of this post ten minutes ago when I saw what the plaque described as a “humanoid-lion hybrid creature” from the Neo-Hittite empire in 9th century BCE. In fact lion-me
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Ghosts of the Past and Devils of the Present(thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com)
8 points by benbreen 1mo ago|0 comments
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by benbreen 1mo ago
My daughters are growing up bilingual in Persian and English. Totally fascinating to find the cognates; many are surprisingly close still (daughter/dokhtar, star/setare, cow/gav). It’s fun feeling like I could communicate bas
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Gakutensoku(en.wikipedia.org)
71 points by benbreen 1mo ago|13 comments
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The Indo-European Family Tree(djbinder.com)
91 points by benbreen 1mo ago|97 comments
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D. Graham Burnett discusses the politics of attention in our algorithmic age(lareviewofbooks.org)
3 points by benbreen 1mo ago|0 comments
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The Essential Question: “What should I read next?”(thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com)
61 points by benbreen 1mo ago|47 comments
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The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life(resobscura.substack.com)
225 points by benbreen 1mo ago|122 comments
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What nonfiction books talk about, 1960-2025(book-prize-index.vercel.app)
1 points by benbreen 2mo ago|0 comments
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Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony(historytoday.com)
7 points by benbreen 2mo ago|1 comments
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Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024)(resobscura.substack.com)
117 points by benbreen 2mo ago|25 comments
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Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge(publicdomainreview.org)
2 points by benbreen 2mo ago|0 comments
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Britain's New World of Tobacco (2017)(historytoday.com)
18 points by benbreen 2mo ago|0 comments
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by benbreen 2mo ago
Great idea for a vibe coded project that is actually creative/original. Got in the top 4% as a professional historian. Would be interesting to see the professions of the people in the top .1 percent - is it people with Geoguessr type a
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by benbreen 2mo ago
Totally agreed. I've never understood why people are so opposed to marginal annotations - it's part of why the book format succeeded as a technology! (i.e you can't marginally annotate a clay tablet). Incidentally, I always l
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by benbreen 2mo ago
Already tried to do this in a basic form. Advice from experts would be welcome as it's my first time trying to make data and an API available: https://book-prize-index.vercel.app/data Also I just had to upgrade my Verc
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by benbreen 2mo ago
Awesome, that's what I was going for. I originally made this for my own use and got kind of obsessed with building it out once I started finding unfamiliar books I enjoyed using the semantic search and category browsing. Glad to see it
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by benbreen 2mo ago
Original author/creator of the site here - thank you! Will add the Axiom one. I am on the fence about whether/how to add "book of the year" type lists as they are somewhat distinct from book awards, but I do think that w
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Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop(resobscura.substack.com)
492 points by benbreen 2mo ago|240 comments
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Pushinka(en.wikipedia.org)
50 points by benbreen 2mo ago|15 comments
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The revenge of the philosophy majors(nytimes.com)
164 points by benbreen 2mo ago|271 comments
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The Victorian War on Rabies(historytoday.com)
25 points by benbreen 2mo ago|21 comments
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Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats(pnas.org)
13 points by benbreen 3mo ago|0 comments
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The Meadows of Medieval Summer(historytoday.com)
3 points by benbreen 3mo ago|0 comments
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Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos(theatlantic.com)
48 points by benbreen 3mo ago|2 comments

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