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Washing machines took decades to catch on(daily.jstor.org)

39 points by herbertl 6 days ago | 43 comments

JSTOR Daily article on why electric washing machines were slow to spread in interwar America, covering forced selling, racial dynamics, and commercial laundry competition.

Women Who Sold Books Door to Door(daily.jstor.org)

57 points by herbertl 1 month ago | 6 comments

JSTOR Daily article examining three nineteenth-century memoirs by women who worked as traveling door-to-door booksellers.

Deodands put a price on objects that caused death(daily.jstor.org)

93 points by samizdis 1 month ago | 36 comments

Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)(daily.jstor.org)

129 points by neom 2 months ago | 220 comments

Where did all the public bathrooms go?(daily.jstor.org)

319 points by herbertl 2 months ago | 724 comments

JSTOR Daily article on the history of public bathrooms, from Paris's 19th-century pissoirs to American temperance-era public toilets.

The Space Race's Forgotten Theme Park(daily.jstor.org)

18 points by anarbadalov 7 months ago | 1 comments

Enchanting Imposters(daily.jstor.org)

30 points by Petiver 1 year ago | 1 comments

Enchanting Imposters(daily.jstor.org)

5 points by Petiver 1 year ago | 0 comments

Did "Big Oil" Sell Us on a Recycling Scam?(daily.jstor.org)

70 points by cratermoon 1 year ago | 42 comments

Mary Somerville, Queen of 19th Century Science (2016)(daily.jstor.org)

3 points by Michelangelo11 1 year ago | 0 comments

Ghosts in the Machine(daily.jstor.org)

66 points by gmays 2 years ago | 33 comments

The Bug in the Computer Bug Story (2022)(daily.jstor.org)

35 points by refibrillator 2 years ago | 10 comments

Lessons in Mannerism at the Palazzo Del Te(daily.jstor.org)

7 points by prismatic 2 years ago | 1 comments

Who Took the Cocaine Out of Coca-Cola?(daily.jstor.org)

34 points by Molitor5901 2 years ago | 32 comments

Rosalind Franklin's Methods of Discovery(daily.jstor.org)

64 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 5 comments

How David Bohm and Hugh Everett changed quantum theory(daily.jstor.org)

46 points by anarbadalov 2 years ago | 59 comments

But Why a Penguin?(daily.jstor.org)

27 points by FigurativeVoid 2 years ago | 9 comments

Saffron: The Most Expensive Spice(daily.jstor.org)

137 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 145 comments

The Marvelous Automata of Antiquity (2018)(daily.jstor.org)

33 points by taupe- 2 years ago | 7 comments

The Magic of a Crooked Sixpence(daily.jstor.org)

12 points by drdee 2 years ago | 3 comments

Until the 14th century women dominated the field of beer brewing(daily.jstor.org)

89 points by beardyw 2 years ago | 70 comments

American librarians helped defeat the Nazis(daily.jstor.org)

74 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 4 comments

The Nineteenth-Century Banjo(daily.jstor.org)

25 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 22 comments

The hunt for life in Alpha Centauri(daily.jstor.org)

85 points by 8bitsrule 2 years ago | 84 comments

What happened to the dream of the Pan-American highway?(daily.jstor.org)

84 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 91 comments

Walkers in the City–and Everywhere(daily.jstor.org)

20 points by Thevet 3 years ago | 12 comments

Walkers in the city and everywhere(daily.jstor.org)

58 points by chippy 3 years ago | 39 comments

“The Poet Is a Man Who Feigns”(daily.jstor.org)

30 points by Caiero 3 years ago | 12 comments

The daguerreotype is famous – why not the calotype?(daily.jstor.org)

69 points by Hooke 3 years ago | 21 comments

Who and What Was a Knocker-Upper?(daily.jstor.org)

37 points by prismatic 3 years ago | 27 comments

The Carrington Event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines(daily.jstor.org)

162 points by Thevet 3 years ago | 131 comments

A Teen Celebrity in 1804(daily.jstor.org)

60 points by CoBE10 3 years ago | 10 comments

Adding water to Martian soil samples might have been a bad idea(daily.jstor.org)

215 points by onychomys 3 years ago | 138 comments

Ancient culture torched its own homes every 60 years(daily.jstor.org)

110 points by samizdis 3 years ago | 89 comments

When the Government Tried to Flood the Grand Canyon(daily.jstor.org)

43 points by samclemens 3 years ago | 45 comments

What’s causing the rise of hoarding disorder? (2019)(daily.jstor.org)

77 points by rntn 3 years ago | 124 comments

The cutting-edge cartoons of Winsor McCay(daily.jstor.org)

31 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 4 comments

Delts Don’t Lie(daily.jstor.org)

70 points by fnubbly 3 years ago | 50 comments

The Mystery of Crime-Scene Dust(daily.jstor.org)

19 points by Petiver 3 years ago | 1 comments

The dangers of tea drinking in nineteenth century Ireland(daily.jstor.org)

31 points by Stratoscope 3 years ago | 38 comments

The Mellotron, an electronic keyboard of recorded samples, changed pop music(daily.jstor.org)

140 points by samizdis 3 years ago | 62 comments

Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)(daily.jstor.org)

278 points by areoform 3 years ago | 300 comments

Vacations in the Soviet Union(daily.jstor.org)

210 points by onychomys 3 years ago | 264 comments

Dummy Boards: The Fun Figures of the 1600s(daily.jstor.org)

31 points by pepys 3 years ago | 4 comments

Chess, unlike war, is a game of perfect information(daily.jstor.org)

54 points by item 3 years ago | 59 comments

Transcribing bird sound as human speech(daily.jstor.org)

58 points by tintinnabula 3 years ago | 26 comments