The Library of Ashurbanipal (2025)(historytoday.com)

57 points by samizdis 2 months ago | 13 comments

Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery(historytoday.com)

7 points by Thevet 1 year ago | 0 comments

Leonardo, Borgia, and Machiavelli: A Fateful Collusion(historytoday.com)

47 points by apollinaire 6 months ago | 0 comments

Normans and Slavery: Breaking the Bonds(historytoday.com)

108 points by pepys 2 years ago | 68 comments

Edmund of Abingdon's Dream Job(historytoday.com)

11 points by lermontov 2 years ago | 6 comments

The Mongol Khans of Medieval France(historytoday.com)

88 points by Thevet 8 months ago | 48 comments

Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry(diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)

73 points by zeristor 1 month ago | 27 comments

Diamond Geezer blog post about the Bayeux Tapestry going on display at the British Museum, and Reading's Victorian replica of the tapestry.

Coconuts in Medieval Britain (2015)(themarysue.com)

26 points by wolfi1 10 days ago | 6 comments

A 2015 Mary Sue article examining whether coconuts could plausibly have been in medieval Britain, as joked about in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

A Tudor life in the time of plague (2020)(historytoday.com)

43 points by pepys 12 days ago | 3 comments

History Today article on how plague shaped Tudor life, starting with the christening of Henry VIII's heir Edward VI.

I don't like NumPy(dynomight.net)

399 points by MinimalAction 1 year ago | 164 comments

A Dynomight blog essay critiquing NumPy's design, arguing its array broadcasting and indexing make complex computations confusing.

The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire(michelecoscia.com)

136 points by mikk14 12 days ago | 30 comments

Blog post by Michele Coscia applying economic complexity analysis to the economy of the Western Roman Empire.

The Mathocalypse(scottaaronson.blog)

361 points by 6bitquant 19 days ago | 380 comments

Scott Aaronson blog post reacting to OpenAI releasing hundreds of AI-generated math results, including a claimed proof of Khot's Unique Games Conjecture.