benbreen's submissions

1.		Research taste in history: the importance of learning Babylonian math (resobscura.substack.com)
		39 points by benbreen 1 day ago \| past \| 5 comments
2.		Simon Winchester has died (nytimes.com)
		105 points by benbreen 4 days ago \| past \| 33 comments
3.		A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals (science.org)
		260 points by benbreen 5 days ago \| past \| 270 comments
4.		Here Be Monsters (nybooks.com)
		6 points by benbreen 7 days ago \| past \| discuss
5.		Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years (scrollprize.substack.com)
		145 points by benbreen 9 days ago \| past \| 21 comments
6.		The Talkie Persona Library (atlas of neurons in vintage language model) (talkieneurons.vercel.app)
		3 points by benbreen 15 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
7.		Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage review – an ancient epic is brilliantly translated (theguardian.com)
		217 points by benbreen 15 days ago \| past \| 58 comments
8.		Werner Forssmann (wikipedia.org)
		2 points by benbreen 17 days ago \| past
9.		Oseberg Tapestry Fragments (wikipedia.org)
		30 points by benbreen 17 days ago \| past \| 6 comments
10.		Total Historian (theideasletter.org)
		25 points by benbreen 19 days ago \| past \| 6 comments
11.		Clockwork Mechanics, Maintenance, and Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages (jhiblog.org)
		28 points by benbreen 23 days ago \| past \| 8 comments
12.		UI-Te-Rangiora (wikipedia.org)
		20 points by benbreen 25 days ago \| past \| 2 comments
13.		Oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey (bbc.com)
		16 points by benbreen 28 days ago \| past \| 4 comments
14.		Hittite royal archive found in Turkey (thehistoryblog.com)
		386 points by benbreen 30 days ago \| past \| 100 comments
15.		Edith Rebecca Saunders (wikipedia.org)
		3 points by benbreen 33 days ago \| past
16.		The Alchemical Transformations of the Mutus Liber (1677) (publicdomainreview.org)
		15 points by benbreen 36 days ago \| past
17.		The Slow Formation of Durable Software (dancohen.org)
		299 points by benbreen 37 days ago \| past \| 115 comments
18.		The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists (worksinprogress.co)
		282 points by benbreen 38 days ago \| past \| 241 comments
19.		Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo (resobscura.substack.com)
		229 points by benbreen 41 days ago \| past \| 80 comments
20.		Why the Bronze Age collapsed (worksinprogress.news)
		9 points by benbreen 43 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
21.		Who wrote Elizabeth I's most scathing letters? (smithsonianmag.com)
		49 points by benbreen 44 days ago \| past \| 24 comments
22.		Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters (resobscura.substack.com)
		174 points by benbreen 48 days ago \| past \| 44 comments
23.		Mirror-Image Life (wikipedia.org)
		1 point by benbreen 56 days ago \| past
24.		Ancient DNA reveals the surprising Arctic life of extinct North American cat (ucsc.edu)
		3 points by benbreen 57 days ago \| past
25.		Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (19th Century) (publicdomainreview.org)
		6 points by benbreen 62 days ago \| past
26.		Moby-Dick and the Indefinite Sublime: On facing the white page (yalereview.org)
		15 points by benbreen 64 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
27.		[flagged] Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto's 'Tokyo Express' (millersbookreview.com)
		27 points by benbreen 69 days ago \| past \| 11 comments
28.		Ghosts of the Past and Devils of the Present (thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com)
		8 points by benbreen 87 days ago \| past
29.		Gakutensoku (wikipedia.org)
		71 points by benbreen 3 months ago \| past \| 14 comments
30.		The Indo-European Family Tree (djbinder.com)
		91 points by benbreen 3 months ago \| past \| 97 comments
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