Stories by benbreen

The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil

Pain Management Before Anaesthetics

Small Archives

Somnium Scipionis

Diobolgeldæ (The Devil's Money): The Early-Medieval Cult Site of Hezingen

Games We Played

AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research

Lonesome George

The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly's Glimpses of the Future (1888)

The Emperor's New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia

Rifling through the archives with Robert Caro

Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder's Twelve Proverbs (1558)

Computer Simulation of Neural Networks Using Spreadsheets (2018)

An Economic Approach to Homer's Odyssey: Part I

Turtle (Submersible)

Incised artefacts from the Middle Palaeolithic and human behavioural complexity

Shadows of the Coming Race (1879)

George Eliot's reflections on AGI from 1879

Edgware 1924: The Making of a Suburb

Wolf Interval

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