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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs(historytoday.com)
2 points by benbreen 2y ago|0 comments
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Deep learning-based detection of qanat water systems using spy satellite imagery(sciencedirect.com)
48 points by benbreen 2y ago|6 comments
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by benbreen 2y ago
Author here, I had the same question and looked into it. The author of that comment seems to be onto something because hygrine is indeed found in nightshades as well as in coca. Interesting.
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On 17th century "cocaine"(resobscura.substack.com)
161 points by benbreen 2y ago|209 comments
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Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest(ageofinvention.xyz)
13 points by benbreen 2y ago|0 comments
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Bronze Age cheese reveals human-Lactobacillus interactions over history(cell.com)
59 points by benbreen 2y ago|21 comments
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Yasuke(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by benbreen 2y ago|0 comments
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The User Manual for the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World (2020)(openculture.com)
1 points by benbreen 2y ago|0 comments
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Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by benbreen 2y ago|0 comments
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Aliens and the Enlightenment(historytoday.com)
47 points by benbreen 2y ago|55 comments
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How to make 3k-year-old beer(nytimes.com)
2 points by benbreen 2y ago|0 comments
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Excuse this ghastly handwriting: When letter writers become self-conscious(news.lettersofnote.com)
2 points by benbreen 2y ago|0 comments
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Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life (1722 Edition)(publicdomainreview.org)
1 points by benbreen 2y ago|0 comments
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Persian Silver in Early Medieval Scotland(buttondown.com)
1 points by benbreen 2y ago|0 comments
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Caftan (Metropolitan Museum of Art)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by benbreen 2y ago|0 comments
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Forensic toxicology backdates the use of coca plant in Europe to the early 1600s(sciencedirect.com)
30 points by benbreen 2y ago|5 comments
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Early Scenes: Remembering a Childhood in the South Bronx(newyorker.com)
11 points by benbreen 2y ago|2 comments
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'The Cheese and the Worms': Carlo Ginzburg Launches Microhistory(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
25 points by benbreen 2y ago|4 comments
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King John's Lost Treasure(historytoday.com)
16 points by benbreen 2y ago|3 comments
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The voyage of the Altar Stone: A Stonehenge mystery solved (maybe)(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by benbreen 2y ago|0 comments
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A Nice, Provocative Silence: An Interview with the Author of Cahokia Jazz(historynewsnetwork.org)
16 points by benbreen 2y ago|0 comments
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Voice is a garden: Margaret Watts Hughes's Victorian sound visualizations(themarginalian.org)
76 points by benbreen 2y ago|10 comments
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Just Say It, Henry(lrb.co.uk)
5 points by benbreen 2y ago|1 comments
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Ettore Majorana(en.wikipedia.org)
16 points by benbreen 2y ago|7 comments
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Kepler's 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery(arstechnica.com)
110 points by benbreen 2y ago|42 comments
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Lewis Lapham has died(nytimes.com)
197 points by benbreen 2y ago|65 comments
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Experimental replication of early human behaviour in bird preparation(frontiersin.org)
1 points by benbreen 2y ago|0 comments
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The Man Who Invented Times Square(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
13 points by benbreen 2y ago|1 comments
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Agenda (1988 Video Game)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by benbreen 2y ago|0 comments
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Paper cuttings made by 17th-century schoolgirls discovered beneath floorboards(smithsonianmag.com)
210 points by benbreen 2y ago|89 comments

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