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user:	benbreen
created:	June 2, 2014
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1.	Ghosts of the Past and Devils of the Present(thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com) 2 points by benbreen 14 hours ago \| 0 comments
2.	Gakutensoku(en.wikipedia.org) 46 points by benbreen 3 days ago \| 7 comments
3.	The Indo-European Family Tree(djbinder.com) 90 points by benbreen 4 days ago \| 97 comments
4.	D. Graham Burnett discusses the politics of attention in our algorithmic age(lareviewofbooks.org) 3 points by benbreen 6 days ago \| 0 comments
5.	The Essential Question: “What should I read next?”(thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com) 61 points by benbreen 11 days ago \| 47 comments
6.	The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life(resobscura.substack.com) 224 points by benbreen 11 days ago \| 122 comments
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8.	What nonfiction books talk about, 1960-2025(book-prize-index.vercel.app) 1 points by benbreen 13 days ago \| 0 comments
9.	Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony(historytoday.com) 7 points by benbreen 15 days ago \| 1 comment
10.	Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024)(resobscura.substack.com) 117 points by benbreen 16 days ago \| 25 comments
11.	Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge(publicdomainreview.org) 2 points by benbreen 18 days ago \| 0 comments
12.	Britain's New World of Tobacco (2017)(historytoday.com) 18 points by benbreen 19 days ago \| 0 comments
13.	Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop(resobscura.substack.com) 492 points by benbreen 25 days ago \| 240 comments
14.	Pushinka(en.wikipedia.org) 50 points by benbreen 31 days ago \| 15 comments
15.	The revenge of the philosophy majors(nytimes.com) 164 points by benbreen 40 days ago \| 271 comments
16.	The Victorian War on Rabies(historytoday.com) 25 points by benbreen 41 days ago \| 21 comments
17.	Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats(pnas.org) 13 points by benbreen 46 days ago \| 0 comments
18.	The Meadows of Medieval Summer(historytoday.com) 3 points by benbreen 48 days ago \| 0 comments
19.	Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos(theatlantic.com) 48 points by benbreen 53 days ago \| 2 comments
20.	Words, Words, Words(aeon.co) 35 points by benbreen 55 days ago \| 15 comments
21.	The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)(publicdomainreview.org) 29 points by benbreen 56 days ago \| 11 comments
22.	Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87(nytimes.com) 18 points by benbreen 60 days ago \| 5 comments
23.	Cypriot Graffiti in Ancient Egypt(historytoday.com) 4 points by benbreen 61 days ago \| 0 comments
24.	Vacuum-Form Signage(bethmathews.substack.com) 117 points by benbreen 68 days ago \| 24 comments