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Antarctic English(en.wikipedia.org)
369 points by benbreen 3y ago|158 comments
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Solar storms, ice cores and nuns' teeth: the new science of history(theguardian.com)
32 points by benbreen 3y ago|3 comments
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What do we get wrong about the Byzantine Empire?(historytoday.com)
85 points by benbreen 3y ago|101 comments
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Hex Marks the Spot(museumofplay.org)
3 points by benbreen 3y ago|0 comments
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An Asteroid Wiped Out Dinosaurs. Did It Help Birds Flourish?(nytimes.com)
2 points by benbreen 3y ago|0 comments
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The long-running joke of a moon made of cheese(snackstack.net)
24 points by benbreen 3y ago|4 comments
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How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?(resobscura.substack.com)
3 points by benbreen 3y ago|1 comments
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Catch Me Who Can(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by benbreen 3y ago|0 comments
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John Locke's recipe for Pancakes (2021)(rarecooking.com)
168 points by benbreen 3y ago|98 comments
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Evidence of the intentional use of black henbane in the Roman Netherlands(cambridge.org)
32 points by benbreen 3y ago|4 comments
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Margaret Mead's LSD Memo(slate.com)
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by benbreen 3y ago
Author here - I love Dune and mostly just used the phrase for the title. But I did write this about Herbert and the drug/spice trade which might be of interest: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/pharmacology&#x2F
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The (history of) spice must flow(resobscura.substack.com)
71 points by benbreen 3y ago|22 comments
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History by Numbers (2022)(aeon.co)
1 points by benbreen 3y ago|0 comments
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William Dampier, Revered and Reviled (2022)(sciencehistory.org)
13 points by benbreen 3y ago|3 comments
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The 100-Year Extinction Panic Is Back, Right on Schedule(nytimes.com)
1 points by benbreen 3y ago|1 comments
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Drug history is a backdoor to cultural history(resobscura.substack.com)
53 points by benbreen 3y ago|22 comments
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Colophon for Psymon.com (1998-2021)(psymon.com)
9 points by benbreen 3y ago|1 comments
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Pedestrianism(en.wikipedia.org)
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Martello Tower(en.wikipedia.org)
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Clear Shadows (1867)(publicdomainreview.org)
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by benbreen 3y ago
He's in there! In fact I decided to cut several pages on him, since a lot has already been written. Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind, among other books, has a lot of detail that I couldn't add much to. Hubbard was imp
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by benbreen 3y ago
Yes, Canada (and especially Saskatchewan) is very important in psychedelic history. I didn't look into it much personally because it's one part of the story that's been documented very well already via the work of Ericka Dyck
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by benbreen 3y ago
I wouldn't recommend my process to anyone, to be honest! I probably wrote a total of around 200k words over a four year period, of which I ended up cutting around 110k. I find it to be very true that you don't know what you actual
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by benbreen 3y ago
Author of the book under review here. AMA! One thing I thought would be helpful is to link to the YouTube video described in the opening paragraph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMF-cyHAaSs It's from a 1957 CBS docum
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by benbreen 3y ago
Our toddler is now asleep so I am also here to do a brief AMA about the book and psychedelic science in the 20th century if anyone has questions. :)
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Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science(latimes.com)
120 points by benbreen 3y ago|123 comments
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Scientists scramble to keep dog aging project alive(nytimes.com)
72 points by benbreen 3y ago|51 comments
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Elevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis emerged in steppe pastoralists(nature.com)
3 points by benbreen 3y ago|0 comments
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"Are We Automata?" by William James (1879)(psychclassics.yorku.ca)
108 points by benbreen 3y ago|108 comments

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