Stories by benbreen

Slab City, California

The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved

OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery

"Bring Your Whole Self" – Unless You Have a Toddler

The Brilliant Cruelty of Henry James's Criticism

A Handshake in Orbit 50 Years Ago Transformed the Space Race

Local Hole

Why Science Hasn't Solved Consciousness (Yet)

Early Triassic super-greenhouse climate driven by vegetation collapse

Kamishibai

The Adding Machine

Scientists Retrace 30k-Year-Old Sea Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull and a bitter feud over humanity's origins

Defending adverbs exuberantly if conditionally

Sid Meier's Pirates – In-depth (2017)

The Art of the Critic

Making maps with noise functions (2022)

Why were Belle Époque cities beautiful?

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