Stories by benbreen

The First Eighteen Lines of the Waste Land (1989)

Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)

The life of a playboy publisher who shaped 20th-century literature

Philosopher of Pride

Scientists Discover Oldest Poison, on 60k-Year-Old Arrows

Pole of Inaccessibility

Philosopher of Pride

Understanding the Northern Lights

Show HN: Gemini 3 imagines Hacker News as a HyperCard stack in 1994

I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years

Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk?

Tom Stoppard's Ordinary Magic

Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem

Stereo Images of Giant Galaxies

How well can Gemini 3 make a Henry James simulator?

Can automation help make the humanities more human?

Aptronym

What happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?

The debate over a tech breakthrough raising questions about life itself

Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire

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