Stories by ascertain

A revolution in English bell ringing

Bot that generates videos of old web pages and media files

Teaching GPT-3 to reverse words

The Mechanical King

The mystery of Truman Capote's final novel

On Training the Medical Mind

If you want peace, study war

A preliminary census of copies of the first edition of Newton’s Principia

What is it like to be a smartphone?

CLIs are reified UIs (2017)

Wood wide web: Trees' social networks are mapped (2019)

AI and Economic Productivity: Expect Evolution, Not Revolution

My Kid Lost a Game of 'Magic' to Its Creator But Scored a Piece of Its Art

Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015)

Anatomy of a Coyote

Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment [pdf]

Kipling in America

Our Fate Is in the Stars

The Smith College Historic Clothing Collection

A nice cup of tea in the Regency? Not always

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