Veronese's Dogs(publicdomainreview.org)

19 points by prismatic 1 month ago | 2 comments

Gottfried Mind, the Raphael of Cats(publicdomainreview.org)

42 points by prismatic 2 years ago | 0 comments

Eugène-François Vidocq and the Birth of the Detective(publicdomainreview.org)

59 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 6 comments

The Reluctant Levitator: Teresa of Avila's Humble Raptures(publicdomainreview.org)

3 points by Petiver 2 years ago | 0 comments

Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss' Retrofuturism(publicdomainreview.org)

13 points by prismatic 1 year ago | 3 comments

The Ether Dreams of Fin-de-Siècle Paris(publicdomainreview.org)

49 points by prismatic 3 years ago | 0 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.

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.

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.

The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community(afterbabel.com)

684 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 627 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Seth Kaplan arguing that the loss of community is the upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis.

The Art of Finishing(bytedrum.com)

609 points by emmorts 2 years ago | 147 comments

A personal blog essay on the ByteDrum blog about a developer's pile of unfinished side projects and the challenge of actually finishing them.

The Post-AGI Era(avidfayaz.com)

10 points by Avid_F 1 month ago | 3 comments

A personal blog essay on Fayaz Notes arguing that AGI has arrived and exploring what the post-AGI era means.