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1.	Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats(pnas.org) 9 points by benbreen 23 hours ago \| 0 comments
2.	The Meadows of Medieval Summer(historytoday.com) 3 points by benbreen 2 days ago \| 0 comments
3.	Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos(theatlantic.com) 48 points by benbreen 8 days ago \| 2 comments
4.	Words, Words, Words(aeon.co) 35 points by benbreen 9 days ago \| 15 comments
5.	The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)(publicdomainreview.org) 29 points by benbreen 10 days ago \| 11 comments
6.	Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87(nytimes.com) 18 points by benbreen 14 days ago \| 5 comments
7.	Cypriot Graffiti in Ancient Egypt(historytoday.com) 4 points by benbreen 15 days ago \| 0 comments
8.	Vacuum-Form Signage(bethmathews.substack.com) 117 points by benbreen 22 days ago \| 24 comments
9.	Easy Writer: On Ted Geltner's Biography of Denis Johnson(metropolitanreview.org) 3 points by benbreen 27 days ago \| 0 comments
10.	Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test(arstechnica.com) 209 points by benbreen 34 days ago \| 8 comments
11.	The Science of Weather and the Nature of Science(the-hinternet.com) 17 points by benbreen 34 days ago \| 2 comments
12.	R vs. Dudley and Stephens(en.wikipedia.org) 1 points by benbreen 36 days ago \| 0 comments
13.	The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers(diffuseai.pub) 66 points by benbreen 41 days ago \| 85 comments
14.	What Is Happening to Publishing?(resobscura.substack.com) 83 points by benbreen 43 days ago \| 59 comments
15.	Russian–American Telegraph(en.wikipedia.org) 3 points by benbreen 44 days ago \| 0 comments
16.	Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype(publicdomainreview.org) 49 points by benbreen 46 days ago \| 6 comments
17.	Why they stopped building wooden stupas: on survivorship bias in history(resobscura.substack.com) 5 points by benbreen 49 days ago \| 0 comments
18.	Archivists Turn to LLMs to Decipher Handwriting at Scale(spectrum.ieee.org) 3 points by benbreen 50 days ago \| 0 comments
19.	Notes on Tanya M. Luhrmann's Book 'How God Becomes Real'(michaelnotebook.com) 1 points by benbreen 54 days ago \| 0 comments
20.	Cooking the Hashish Cookbook(cookingthehashishcookbook.com) 9 points by benbreen 55 days ago \| 3 comments
21.	Sovereign AI: Control, Choice, and Why It Goes Beyond Geopolitics(blog.mozilla.ai) 4 points by benbreen 57 days ago \| 0 comments
22.	The Thinking Plant's Man (2025)(sciencehistory.org) 59 points by benbreen 59 days ago \| 19 comments
23.	A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia(rightscon.org) 105 points by benbreen 62 days ago \| 48 comments
24.	Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930(resobscura.substack.com) 17 points by benbreen 63 days ago \| 3 comments
25.	The Last of the Lost Generation(porticoquarterly.com) 25 points by benbreen 68 days ago \| 6 comments
26.	When your digital life vanishes(newyorker.com) 75 points by benbreen 70 days ago \| 20 comments
27.	The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations(resobscura.substack.com) 60 points by benbreen 71 days ago \| 4 comments
28.	"Wretches, Speak Evil of Me": Goethe and Schiller's Xenions (1896 Edition)(publicdomainreview.org) 17 points by benbreen 79 days ago \| 2 comments