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Skirrets (Fried Three Ways)(rarecooking.com)
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Neutron tomography of Van Leeuwenhoek’s microscopes(advances.sciencemag.org)
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Mount Vesuvius victims died just moments away from rescue(arstechnica.com)
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Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections(blogs.bl.uk)
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by benbreen 5y ago
I've often wondered about why psilocybin-bearing mushrooms are so widely distributed but had such localized cultural impacts. I don't have a good answer to that one and am still thinking it through. I will note though that terms l
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by benbreen 5y ago
Thanks! Though I have to say, credit for the open access is entirely due to librarians of the UC system. I just had to click a button saying I wanted it to be made available. The work was already done via this 2019 agreement with Cambridge:
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by benbreen 5y ago
I agree, that story is fascinating. In fact the shift in the 1950s in how scientists thought about psychedelics is actually what my second book (in progress) is about. The Abramson cited in that study is one of the main people I've bee
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by benbreen 5y ago
Author here: this is an open-access journal article, mostly about the colonial histories of peyote, psilocybin and ayahuasca. If you aren't able to access it and want to, just get in touch (contact info in profile) and I'd be happ
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The failed globalization of psychedelic drugs in the early modern world(cambridge.org)
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Chinese Alchemical Elixir Poisoning(en.wikipedia.org)
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Visualizing History: The Polish System(publicdomainreview.org)
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Walkers in the Ruined City(lrb.co.uk)
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The Obsessive Art and Great Confession of Charlotte Salomon (2017)(newyorker.com)
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Agostino Ramelli’s Theatre of Machines (1588)(publicdomainreview.org)
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by benbreen 5y ago
Very much agree that the UFO thing is a red herring. But perhaps Occam's Razor actually points to an even simpler explanation, that of it being a reoccurring mythological trope that was repackaged as an historical event. That said, I w
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Utsuro-Bune(en.wikipedia.org)
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Early alphabetic writing in the ancient Near East: the ‘missing link’(cambridge.org)
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Konlabot: Thai Poetry from 'Jewels of Thought'(blogs.bl.uk)
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Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language? (2007)(newyorker.com)
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B. Traven(en.wikipedia.org)
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Office of Strategic Services Psychological Assessment (2003)(people.wku.edu)
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An enigmatic Javanese manuscript in the British Library(blogs.bl.uk)
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Non-essential retail in nineteenth-century London(blogs.bl.uk)
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Silphium(en.wikipedia.org)
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Symphony of a Thousand Millennia(literaryreview.co.uk)
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The Krakatoa Sunsets (2012)(publicdomainreview.org)
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List of Proposed Etymologies of OK(en.wikipedia.org)
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How the alphabet helped Virginia Woolf understand her father (2019)(lithub.com)
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Did the black death rampage across the world a century earlier than we thought?(smithsonianmag.com)
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Unlocking history through automated virtual unfolding of sealed documents(nature.com)
55 points by benbreen 6y ago|9 comments

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