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The Lost World of Typesetting Races: Speed, Spectacle, and Women's Fight for Equity in the Printing Trade
publicdomainreview.org2mo ago
Historical Data Visualizations: How William James, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Francis Galton Used Diagrams for Thinking
resobscura.substack.com2mo ago
William T. Vollmann's Perseverance: Surviving Personal Tragedy and Professional Setbacks to Complete CIA Novel
metropolitanreview.org3mo ago
"Obsolete Sounds": Global Collection of Disappearing Sounds Remixed by Artists
citiesandmemory.com3mo ago
Review: "The Pale Blue Data Point" Examines the Paradox of Astrobiology Without Evidence
reviewcanada.ca4mo ago
The Cultural Origins and Persistence of Knocking on Wood Superstition
resobscura.substack.com4mo ago
Technical Evaluation of Multilingual AI Guardrails in Humanitarian Applications
blog.mozilla.ai5mo ago
Ashcan Comics: The Trademark-Protection Practice in Early American Comic Books
en.wikipedia.org5mo ago
Analyzing Historical Inaccuracies in Medieval City-Builder Video Games
leidenmedievalistsblog.nl5mo agoBennett Cerf: The Random House Co-Founder Who Published 20th-Century Literary Giants
Bennett Cerf, a co-founder of Random House, published many of the greats -- Faulkner, Rand, Capote. “Nothing Random” looks at his life and the times that shaped him.
washingtonpost.com6mo agoHyperHack 94: The 1994 Programming Competition That Pioneered Modern Hackathons
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Reflections on 15 Years of Writing a Niche History Blog: The Res Obscura Journey
resobscura.substack.com7mo ago
James A. Garfield's Original Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
en.wikipedia.org7mo ago
The CIA Connection: Peter Matthiessen, The Paris Review, and Cold War Cultural Influence
theparisreview.org8mo agoWilliam James' Theory of Selection in Consciousness and Its Parallels with Computational Systems
This is obviously true of action. Whatever views your views on free will, it is indubitable that differing options occur to us, that we compare them, that we prefer some to others, that eventually we elect one and dismiss the rest. More interestingly, J
Rune Elmqvist: Medical Innovator Behind First Inkjet Printer and Implantable Pacemakers
spectrum.ieee.org10mo ago
Collaborative Efforts in Building Guédelon Castle: A Medieval Construction Experiment
Oxford's Eccentric Traditions and the Challenge to Machine Reasoning
resobscura.substack.com11mo agoApollo-Soyuz Test Project: First International Human Spaceflight
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human spaceflight.
nytimes.com1y agoThe Discovery of an Ancient Skull in Chad Sparks a Feud Among Scholars
The long read: When fossilised remains were discovered in the Djurab desert in 2001, they were hailed as radically rewriting the history of our species. But not everyone was convinced – and the bitter argument that followed has consumed the lives of schol
theguardian.com1y ago