Stories by benbreen

Gakutensoku

The Indo-European Family Tree

D. Graham Burnett discusses the politics of attention in our algorithmic age

The Essential Question: "What should I read next?"

The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life

The Indo-European Family Tree

What nonfiction books talk about, 1960-2025

Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony

Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024)

Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

Britain's New World of Tobacco (2017)

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop

Pushinka

The revenge of the philosophy majors

The Victorian War on Rabies

Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats

The Meadows of Medieval Summer

Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos

Words, Words, Words

The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)

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