benbreen

46,206 karmajoined June 2, 2014On HN

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email: breen85 [at] gmail [dot] com

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Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (19th Century)publicdomainreview.org
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Moby-Dick and the Indefinite Sublime: On facing the white page yalereview.org
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Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto's 'Tokyo Express'millersbookreview.com
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Ghosts of the Past and Devils of the Present thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com
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Gakutensoku en.wikipedia.org
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The Indo-European Family Tree djbinder.com
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D. Graham Burnett discusses the politics of attention in our algorithmic age lareviewofbooks.org
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The Essential Question: “What should I read next?”thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com
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The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life resobscura.substack.com
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What nonfiction books talk about, 1960-2025 book-prize-index.vercel.app
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Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony historytoday.com
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Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024)resobscura.substack.com
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Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge publicdomainreview.org
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Britain's New World of Tobacco (2017)historytoday.com
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Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop resobscura.substack.com
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Pushinka en.wikipedia.org
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The revenge of the philosophy majors nytimes.com
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The Victorian War on Rabies historytoday.com
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Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats pnas.org
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The Meadows of Medieval Summer historytoday.com
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Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos theatlantic.com
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Words, Words, Words aeon.co
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The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)publicdomainreview.org
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Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87 nytimes.com
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Cypriot Graffiti in Ancient Egypt historytoday.com
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Vacuum-Form Signage bethmathews.substack.com
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Easy Writer: On Ted Geltner's Biography of Denis Johnson metropolitanreview.org
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Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test arstechnica.com
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The Science of Weather and the Nature of Science the-hinternet.com
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R vs. Dudley and Stephens en.wikipedia.org
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