Stories by benbreen

Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos

Words, Words, Words

The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)

Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87

Cypriot Graffiti in Ancient Egypt

Vacuum-Form Signage

Easy Writer: On Ted Geltner's Biography of Denis Johnson

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test

The Science of Weather and the Nature of Science

R vs. Dudley and Stephens

The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers

What Is Happening to Publishing?

Russian–American Telegraph

Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype

Why they stopped building wooden stupas: on survivorship bias in history

Archivists Turn to LLMs to Decipher Handwriting at Scale

Notes on Tanya M. Luhrmann's Book 'How God Becomes Real'

Cooking the Hashish Cookbook

Sovereign AI: Control, Choice, and Why It Goes Beyond Geopolitics

The Thinking Plant's Man (2025)

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