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Onfim's world
Child artists in history
Apr 16
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Benjamin Breen
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When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI
One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar.
Apr 2
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Benjamin Breen
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March 2025
AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research
A followup to "The leading AI models are now good historians"
Mar 5
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Benjamin Breen
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February 2025
Happy Lupercalia
A special discount on subscriptions in honor of the Roman wolf holiday
Feb 13
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Benjamin Breen
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The familiar loneliness of the Kinetoscope
One other way that the 2020s resemble the 1890s
Feb 5
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Benjamin Breen
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January 2025
When the Sackler Brothers studied LSD
One of the stranger episodes from the 1950s golden age of psychedelic therapy, and what it tells us about the history of technology
Jan 29
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Benjamin Breen
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When the Sackler Brothers studied LSD
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The leading AI models are now good historians
... in specific domains. Three case studies with GPT-4o, o1, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, and what they mean
Jan 22
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2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
Jan 15
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Benjamin Breen
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2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
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December 2024
Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
Dec 4, 2024
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Benjamin Breen
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October 2024
A very deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
Oct 29, 2024
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Benjamin Breen
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Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
Oct 23, 2024
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Benjamin Breen
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On 17th century "cocaine"
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
Oct 9, 2024
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