The Life and Times of "The Paris Metro"(theparisreview.org)

32 points by apollinaire 2 years ago | 5 comments

The Epistemology of Microphysics(edwardfeser.com)

39 points by danielam 7 months ago | 26 comments

If you have first-hand knowledge of the FDA’s torpor, get in touch(jakeseliger.com)

315 points by abecedarius 3 years ago | 217 comments

Jean Monnet: The Guerilla Bureaucrat (2021)(250bpm.com)

43 points by atomicnature 3 years ago | 5 comments

East German Stasi Tactics – Zersetzung (2021)(maxhertzberg.co.uk)

100 points by walterbell 1 year ago | 125 comments

Camus's New York Diary (1946)(theparisreview.org)

61 points by amanuensis 3 years ago | 30 comments

Total Historian(theideasletter.org)

18 points by benbreen 21 days ago | 4 comments

An essay in The Ideas Letter by Nicholas Mulder on historian Marc Bloch, prompted by his induction into the Panthéon in Paris.

The Lost Art of Research as Leisure(kasurian.com)

450 points by altilunium 1 year ago | 246 comments

A Kasurian newsletter essay by Mariam Mahmoud on the decline of amateur researchers and how to revive research as a leisure activity.

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.

Why vampires live forever(machielreyneke.com)

336 points by machielrey 9 months ago | 165 comments

Personal blog essay by Machiel Reyneke exploring why people in the longevity space are obsessed with living forever, framed through the metaphor of vampires.

Men with Queer Nerves: The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine(publicdomainreview.org)

8 points by acossta 1 month ago | 0 comments

A Public Domain Review essay by Ross Bullen on the 'Jumping Frenchmen of Maine', French-Canadian lumberjacks with exaggerated startle reactions, and investigator George M. Beard.

Thoughts on thinking(dcurt.is)

588 points by bradgessler 1 year ago | 367 comments

Dustin Curtis's blog essay reflecting on how AI and LLMs have made his own writing, coding, and creative thinking feel pointless.