The Third Atomic Bomb(lflank.wordpress.com)

247 points by dxs 2 years ago | 244 comments

The Albuquerque "Broken Arrow" Nuclear Accident(lflank.wordpress.com)

85 points by dxs 1 year ago | 38 comments

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

238 points by wise_blood 6 months ago | 83 comments

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

69 points by danielam 6 months ago | 14 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

The remarkable life and astonishing times of Dwight Smith Young(historyonthefox.wordpress.com)

48 points by omega3 1 year ago | 4 comments

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform(github.com)

592 points by doener 3 months ago | 274 comments

GitHub repository for PeerTube, an AGPL-licensed ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform that uses P2P delivery in the browser.

Why human societies developed so little during 300k years(woodfromeden.substack.com)

391 points by elsewhen 3 years ago | 384 comments

A Substack essay by Tove K on Wood From Eden arguing why human societies developed so little over 300,000 years, linking stagnation to violence.

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.

Do your own writing(alexhwoods.com)

690 points by karimf 7 months ago | 222 comments

Blog post by Alex Woods arguing against using LLMs to write documents and essays, since writing is a way to think and build trust.

Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability(electrek.co)

80 points by ciconia 26 days ago | 93 comments

Electrek article reporting that Tesla is taking on $30 billion in credit as the company nears unprofitability.