merothwell

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Sam Altman is the Christopher Columbus of our time(cosmographia.substack.com)
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Photographs of 19th Century Persia(cosmographia.substack.com)
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by merothwell 2y ago
Fascinating
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Photographs of 19th Century Japan(cosmographia.substack.com)
452 points by merothwell 2y ago|132 comments
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Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards(beachedcommunity.substack.com)
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by merothwell 2y ago
Phones are ruining tourism and I hate it.
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by merothwell 2y ago
Woops — thanks for catching that
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Photographs of the Old West(cosmographia.substack.com)
183 points by merothwell 2y ago|15 comments
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by merothwell 2y ago
Histories of computing tend to either begin with ancient efforts — like the abacus, Archimedes’ mechanical theorems, and Aristotle’s logic — or they skip ahead to the early modern period, recounting stories of Gottfried Leibniz’s calculatin
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The Black Death is far older than we thought(cosmographia.substack.com)
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by merothwell 2y ago
For two years now I’ve been travelling Europe. For two years I’ve noticed a creeping trend. I saw it in Vienna, I saw it in Rome. From Bulgaria to Scotland, from Marseille to Bucovina, a movement has been building. I suspect the shift is gl
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Istanbul in Paint(cosmographia.substack.com)
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by merothwell 3y ago
The ancients believed the movements of celestial objects profoundly influenced events here on Earth. Thus, it was vital that they map the cosmos, tracking the Moon, planets, and star constellations as they arced across the heavens. In doing
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A Short History of Geocentrism(cosmographia.substack.com)
1 points by merothwell 3y ago|1 comments