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1.	Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo(resobscura.substack.com) 44 points by benbreen 3 hours ago \| 2 comments
2.	Why the Bronze Age collapsed(worksinprogress.news) 9 points by benbreen 1 day ago \| 1 comment
3.	Who wrote Elizabeth I's most scathing letters?(smithsonianmag.com) 49 points by benbreen 3 days ago \| 24 comments
4.	Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters(resobscura.substack.com) 174 points by benbreen 7 days ago \| 44 comments
5.	Mirror-Image Life(en.wikipedia.org) 1 points by benbreen 14 days ago \| 0 comments
6.	Ancient DNA reveals the surprising Arctic life of extinct North American cat(news.ucsc.edu) 3 points by benbreen 16 days ago \| 0 comments
7.	Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (19th Century)(publicdomainreview.org) 6 points by benbreen 20 days ago \| 0 comments
8.	Moby-Dick and the Indefinite Sublime: On facing the white page(yalereview.org) 15 points by benbreen 22 days ago \| 1 comment
9.	Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto's 'Tokyo Express'(millersbookreview.com) 27 points by benbreen 28 days ago \| 11 comments
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12.	Ghosts of the Past and Devils of the Present(thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com) 8 points by benbreen 46 days ago \| 0 comments
13.	Gakutensoku(en.wikipedia.org) 71 points by benbreen 49 days ago \| 14 comments
14.	The Indo-European Family Tree(djbinder.com) 91 points by benbreen 50 days ago \| 97 comments
15.	D. Graham Burnett discusses the politics of attention in our algorithmic age(lareviewofbooks.org) 3 points by benbreen 52 days ago \| 0 comments
16.	The Essential Question: “What should I read next?”(thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com) 61 points by benbreen 56 days ago \| 47 comments
17.	The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life(resobscura.substack.com) 225 points by benbreen 57 days ago \| 122 comments
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19.	What nonfiction books talk about, 1960-2025(book-prize-index.vercel.app) 1 points by benbreen 58 days ago \| 0 comments
20.	Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony(historytoday.com) 7 points by benbreen 61 days ago \| 1 comment
21.	Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024)(resobscura.substack.com) 117 points by benbreen 62 days ago \| 25 comments
22.	Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge(publicdomainreview.org) 2 points by benbreen 64 days ago \| 0 comments
23.	Britain's New World of Tobacco (2017)(historytoday.com) 18 points by benbreen 64 days ago \| 0 comments