benbreen

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2701.
How a colonial past shaped Star Trek’s utopian futures(theappendix.net)
20 points by benbreen 12y ago|20 comments
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Early Modern Recipes (1600-1800) in a Modern Kitchen(rarecooking.wordpress.com)
128 points by benbreen 12y ago|41 comments
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by benbreen 12y ago
This is interesting stuff, thanks. It's also fun to think about the remarkable advances in things like geared devices, automatons and water wheels in the Hellenistic period through to the end of the Western Empire. Most famously the An
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by benbreen 12y ago
The environmental history of this stuff is really interesting - Elinor Melville wrote a good book about the "ungulate eruptions" following the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica: http://books.google.co.uk/books/a
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The Islands of Refreshment and the history of micronations(theappendix.net)
22 points by benbreen 12y ago|2 comments
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Booktraces: Crowd-sourcing unique items and annotations left in antique books(booktraces.tumblr.com)
3 points by benbreen 12y ago|0 comments
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by benbreen 12y ago
Yep. The main function is to situate the reader if they get linked to a "supernote" like so: http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/7/party-like-its-1999-jap...
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Japanese Retrofuturism and Chrono Trigger(theappendix.net)
131 points by benbreen 12y ago|70 comments
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Revisiting Isaac Asimov's 1964 predictions about 2014(theappendix.net)
2 points by benbreen 12y ago|0 comments
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by benbreen 12y ago
Here's a direct link to the Choose Your Own Adventure component: http://theappendix.net/special/the-fever
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by benbreen 12y ago
We need more of both! I know more than one anthropologist in training whose "field work" involves lurking on online message boards and fora - guessing that online anthropology will become an increasingly hot topic in the next coup
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by benbreen 12y ago
Very true, and licking the toads can also deliver cardiotoxins (people who really, really want to harvest the 5-MeO-DMT from them apparently "milk" their glands and then smoke it, which sounds like more trouble than it's wort
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by benbreen 12y ago
My dissertation is actually about the origins of the drug trade, but I think you'd be interested in the journalist George Pendle's Parsons biography, Strange Angel, which I think does a great job of teasing out what alchemy meant
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by benbreen 12y ago
Fleming on the Dark Side of the Enlightenment is great, I agree. But I wouldn't say his book is trying to separate the dross of ridiculous belief from the gold of "true" science or philosophy. What I take away from that book
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by benbreen 12y ago
As the PhD candidate in question, I would have to agree that it is rambling - but I hope you wait to read my actual dissertation before judging my scholarly output as a whole! I should also add that I have no connection to the O.T.O. or any