benbreen

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901.
The Murky Origins of an Enigmatic Artifact(hakaimagazine.com)
6 points by benbreen 6y ago|4 comments
902.
by benbreen 6y ago
Totally agree. When reading history, you can and should substitute an invisible "According to the limited sources I consulted, and modulo their biases/mistakes/oversights, it seems to me the best interpretation of the given d
903.
by benbreen 6y ago
Correct. There were two recorded performances, one in December, 1613, the second in January, 1614. I went ahead and described the second because it's better documented. I got the exact date from a journal article by a garden historian.
904.
by benbreen 6y ago
I much prefer footnotes myself, where you can see directly what is being cited. Unfortunately there's a wide range of practices for online writing, but the norm I've found is usually just hyperlinks to digitized sources. The Appen
905.
by benbreen 6y ago
Author here - was it really glorious and strange and beautiful? All subjective judgements, so who can truly say. But I can tell you that those judgements are at least drawn from an actual primary source, published in 1614: the stage directi
906.
The transformation of tobacco and cannabis into early modern global obsessions(laphamsquarterly.org)
67 points by benbreen 6y ago|57 comments
907.
World's Littlest Skyscraper(en.wikipedia.org)
131 points by benbreen 6y ago|49 comments
908.
Huns in Anglo-Saxon England? Some Thoughts on Bede, Priscus and Attila (2015)(caitlingreen.org)
2 points by benbreen 6y ago|0 comments
909.
Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130 (1992)(theparisreview.org)
91 points by benbreen 6y ago|28 comments
910.
Kóryos(en.wikipedia.org)
59 points by benbreen 6y ago|22 comments
911.
The Black Death: A New Culprit?(historytoday.com)
39 points by benbreen 6y ago|10 comments
912.
BIT (alternative information centre)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by benbreen 6y ago|0 comments
913.
Neural scene representation and rendering (2018)(science.sciencemag.org)
1 points by benbreen 6y ago|0 comments
914.
Is ‘Avalanche’ the Answer to a 62-Year-Old Russian Mystery over 9 Deaths?(nytimes.com)
2 points by benbreen 6y ago|0 comments
915.
Filippo Morghen's Fantastical Visions of Lunar Life (1776)(publicdomainreview.org)
4 points by benbreen 6y ago|0 comments
916.
Prehistoric Arrow Bonanza at Langfonne (2020)(secretsoftheice.com)
12 points by benbreen 6y ago|1 comments
917.
Seven Hundred Leagues Beneath Titan’s Methane Seas(nytimes.com)
73 points by benbreen 6y ago|2 comments
918.
How a Studio for Artists with Disabilities Is Surviving at a Distance (2020)(newyorker.com)
4 points by benbreen 6y ago|0 comments
919.
Jane Austen's concept of information (Not Claude Shannon's) (2013)(cs.bham.ac.uk)
73 points by benbreen 6y ago|28 comments
920.
Beinecke to make Frederick Douglass and Douglass Papers available to the public(yaledailynews.com)
2 points by benbreen 6y ago|0 comments
921.
Humans were drinking milk before they could digest it(sciencemag.org)
47 points by benbreen 6y ago|63 comments
922.
Cereals, feasts and monuments at Göbekli Tepe (2019)(dainst.blog)
55 points by benbreen 6y ago|3 comments
923.
by benbreen 6y ago
Just want to say thanks for this excellent comment. Out of curiosity, would you be up for sharing more about your own research? I always wanted to be an archaeologist as a kid; wound up becoming an historian almost by accident instead.
924.
The Drenching Richness of Andrei Tarkovsky(newyorker.com)
77 points by benbreen 6y ago|44 comments
925.
John Martin's Illustrations of Paradise Lost (1827)(publicdomainreview.org)
29 points by benbreen 6y ago|6 comments
926.
On Hearing and Not Hearing(hi-22952.medium.com)
2 points by benbreen 6y ago|0 comments
927.
by benbreen 6y ago
This topic reminds me of Walter Pitts and specifically his famous paper "What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain" (1959): https://hearingbrain.org/docs/letvin_ieee_1959.pdf Pitts is probably know
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Bede, the Dig and Sutton Hoo(blogs.bl.uk)
25 points by benbreen 6y ago|5 comments
929.
Libyan Desert Glass: New field and Fourier transform infrared data (2013)(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
26 points by benbreen 6y ago|4 comments
930.
Bangui magnetic anomaly(en.wikipedia.org)
82 points by benbreen 6y ago|15 comments

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