1948: Catholic Church publishes final edition of “Index Librorum Prohibitorum”(historyofinformation.com)

66 points by thomassmith65 1 year ago | 58 comments

Codex Gigas: the largest manuscript of the middle ages(historyofinformation.com)

40 points by RickyS 3 years ago | 3 comments

Previously unknown verses by Empedocles found on papyrus(thehistoryblog.com)

69 points by danielam 6 months ago | 14 comments

Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy(thehistoryblog.com)

238 points by wise_blood 6 months ago | 83 comments

11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey(thehistoryblog.com)

103 points by speckx 2 months ago | 77 comments

Theodosian Land Walls of Constantinople (2025)(turkisharchaeonews.net)

29 points by bcraven 7 months ago | 7 comments

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.

How University Students Use Claude(anthropic.com)

368 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 504 comments

Anthropic's education report analyzing how university students use Claude, published April 8, 2025.

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.

I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse(ryansouthgate.com)

510 points by ry8806 1 year ago | 294 comments

A personal blog post explaining why the author removed the Disqus comment system from his blog, citing its injected ads.

AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons(arxiv.org)

131 points by jrepinc 4 days ago | 77 comments

arXiv paper arguing that AI enables an enclosure of the scientific literature as an information commons, analogous to the historical English enclosure of common lands.