Enchanting Imposters(daily.jstor.org)

5 points by Petiver 1 year ago | 0 comments

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

64 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 5 comments

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

25 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 22 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 Mystery of Crime-Scene Dust(daily.jstor.org)

19 points by Petiver 3 years ago | 1 comments

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

69 points by Hooke 3 years ago | 21 comments

Writing summaries is more important than reading more books(andreasfragner.com)

350 points by 42point2 3 years ago | 152 comments

Andreas Fragner's blog post arguing that writing summaries of good books yields more comprehension than reading more books.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop(resobscura.substack.com)

463 points by benbreen 3 months ago | 222 comments

Benjamin Breen's Res Obscura essay arguing quality non-fiction books counter AI slop, introducing a vibe-coded tool indexing prize-winning books.

Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters(resobscura.substack.com)

160 points by benbreen 1 month ago | 38 comments

A Res Obscura Substack post by historian Benjamin Breen arguing AI labs should fund historical research, with examples of using frontier LLMs to trace alchemy and decode 17th-century letters.

Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools(theorthagonist.substack.com)

489 points by ZeroTalent 1 year ago | 228 comments

A Substack essay from The Orthagonist arguing that popular business books are cheap entertainment built on simplified stories rather than useful strategic tools.

The painter behind Manhattan’s Gilded Age interiors(engelsbergideas.com)

45 points by hoffmannesque 5 days ago | 4 comments

Engelsberg Ideas essay on James Wall Finn, a little-known decorative painter whose murals adorn Gilded Age Manhattan interiors like the NYPL Rose Main Reading Room.