Stories by benbreen

Cabinets of curiosities laid the foundation for modern museums

The most interesting things I read in 2023

History's most famous pot: the Meidias hydria

When Technology Follows Art

The Vibrant Worlds of Batuan Paintings in Bali

Margaret Mead, technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide

How to use generative AI for historical research: Four real-world case studies

From Aristocratic to Ordinary: Shifting Modes of Elite Distinction (2020)

The Early Modern English Plan to Colonize Russia

A man who invented fifteen hundred necktie knots

The father-son struggle that helped ensure IBM's success

The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days

Why is RC Cola popular in Tajikistan?

21st Century Bard

The Youngest Daughter of the Sciences

Which Writers Will We Remember?

Assyrian Women of Letters

Very Slight Counterfactuals: Dick Whittington Has Children

Monsters in the Middle Ages

Simulating History with Multimodal AI: An Update

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