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An arrowhead made of meteoritic iron from the late Bronze Age(sciencedirect.com)
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by benbreen 3y ago
I came across many different versions of books with that title while doing my PhD research (was tracing the names and descriptions of various drugs popular in the early modern period). It's quite an interesting group of books because a
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Why early modern books are so beautiful(resobscura.substack.com)
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What Benjamin Franklin Learned While Fighting Counterfeiters(nytimes.com)
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The cutting-edge cartoons of Winsor McCay(daily.jstor.org)
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The First Map of the Moon(historytoday.com)
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Earliest curry in Southeast Asia and the global spice trade 2000 years ago(science.org)
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?(resobscura.substack.com)
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Hallucinogenic plants in Chinese herbals(en.wikipedia.org)
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The persistence of the Saturday Evening Post (2021)(cjr.org)
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Stone walls and historical harbors are unexpected havens of biodiversity(hakaimagazine.com)
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Bayesian methods to provide probablistic solution for the Drake equation (2019)(sciencedirect.com)
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The Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Survey(medieval-graffiti.co.uk)
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by benbreen 3y ago
Author here. That connection to George Boole and her career as a novelist is what got me interested in the Voyniches in the first place, but then I found so much interesting stuff that I decided to write a series of posts on them. I'm
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Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, revolutionary, cryptologist… suspected spy?(resobscura.substack.com)
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Nimatron(en.wikipedia.org)
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Kakure Kirishitan(en.wikipedia.org)
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Gadgets and gizmos that inspired Adam Smith(reason.com)
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by benbreen 3y ago
"Stuff like this is hard to validate. For most renaissance artists, their self-portraits are far from photorealistic." Author here. Agreed, it's definitely not a science. I suspect the author of this article I link to in the
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Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?(resobscura.substack.com)
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Echoes of Eco in His Library(the-tls.co.uk)
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William Saville-Kent: Marine Biology's Unsolved Murder (2021)(theatlantic.com)
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Tombs rich in artifacts discovered by Swedish expedition in Cyprus(phys.org)
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Archaean Log or the Autopoiesis of a Prokaryote(asymptotejournal.com)
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Samuel R. Delany Reimagined Sci-Fi, Sex, and the City(newyorker.com)
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by benbreen 3y ago
That’s cool, thanks for your work with this. I’m a regular user. Was going to say that the John Carter Brown Library (leading research library for rare books, maps, and manuscripts about colonial Americas) uses Luna - they did last time I c
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Alfred Jarry(en.wikipedia.org)
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Patent medicines and the history of cocaine (2020)(histmed.collegeofphysicians.org)
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by benbreen 3y ago
I'm the author of the OP. Happy to talk more about the history of psychedelics. I also wanted to flag that if anyone is interested in some of the historical sources I cite here (such as the Jesuit talking about ayahuasca in the 18th ce
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Shifting views about psychedelic drugs require a new category for them(washingtonpost.com)
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