Complete Digitization of Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus(openculture.com)

123 points by emmelaich 1 year ago | 39 comments

Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library(openculture.com)

290 points by Anon84 1 year ago | 114 comments

The First Medieval Electronic Instrument Plays Sounds of Lutes and More(openculture.com)

24 points by miles 2 years ago | 3 comments

“The most beautiful of all printed books,” the Kelmscott Chaucer(openculture.com)

191 points by geox 3 years ago | 37 comments

Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad'(openculture.com)

172 points by diodorus 5 months ago | 126 comments

Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence(openculture.com)

71 points by tesserato 8 months ago | 35 comments

Clockwork Mechanics, Maintenance, and Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages(jhiblog.org)

15 points by benbreen 6 days ago | 4 comments

JHI Blog essay on how late-medieval writers like Oresme, Mézières, and Froissart used mechanical clocks, which needed constant maintenance, as metaphors for cosmic and political order.

Visualizing World War II(nathangoldwag.wordpress.com)

410 points by gaws 1 year ago | 85 comments

A blog post on Goldwag's Journal on Civilization presenting visualizations and maps of World War II history.

The Future Is Niri(ersei.net)

388 points by mattjhall 1 year ago | 202 comments

A personal blog post giving the author's opinion on the Niri scrollable tiling Wayland compositor after years of using Sway and i3.

Gods in the Classroom: Religion and Education in First Millennium BCE Babylonia(cambridge.org)

51 points by pseudolus 25 days ago | 33 comments

Open-access article in the Cambridge journal Iraq examining the role of religion in scribal education in first millennium BCE Babylonia.

The future of software development is software developers(codemanship.wordpress.com)

376 points by cdrnsf 10 months ago | 471 comments

A Codemanship blog post arguing that the future of software development still depends on human software developers.

A Reddit bot drove me insane(posthuman.blog)

486 points by erhmmmm 1 year ago | 239 comments

A blog post recounting the author's encounter with a human-seeming Reddit post that turned out to be a bot, reflecting on AI slop online.