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OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery
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"Bring Your Whole Self" – Unless You Have a Toddler
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Mon Jul 21, 2025 2:49pm PST
The Brilliant Cruelty of Henry James's Criticism
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A Handshake in Orbit 50 Years Ago Transformed the Space Race
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Local Hole
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Why Science Hasn't Solved Consciousness (Yet)
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Early Triassic super-greenhouse climate driven by vegetation collapse
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Kamishibai
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The Adding Machine
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Scientists Retrace 30k-Year-Old Sea Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log
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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
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The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull and a bitter feud over humanity's origins
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Defending adverbs exuberantly if conditionally
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Sid Meier's Pirates – In-depth (2017)
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The Art of the Critic
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Making maps with noise functions (2022)
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Why were Belle Époque cities beautiful?
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William James's Grief (2024)
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Onfim's world: Child artists in history
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Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
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As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade
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Henry James's family tried to keep him in the closet (2016)
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Hill or High Water
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AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder
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The Once and Future Genius
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Shakespeare may not have been a remote husband, new study finds
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How Much Should You Know About Your Child Before He's Born?
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Henry James was not at home in America
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Georgetown–IBM Experiment
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Mistaking Mary Magdalene
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Home Depot's $20B secret garden
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Onfim's World: Child artists in history
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Typographic Pictures Composed Entirely of Brass Rule (2024)
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When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI
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Lapham's Quarterly Announces New Stewardship
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Legacy of the Angels
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The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil
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Pain Management Before Anaesthetics
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Small Archives
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Somnium Scipionis
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Diobolgeldæ (The Devil's Money): The Early-Medieval Cult Site of Hezingen
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Games We Played
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AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research
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Lonesome George
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The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly's Glimpses of the Future (1888)
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The Emperor's New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia
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Rifling through the archives with Robert Caro
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Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder's Twelve Proverbs (1558)
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Computer Simulation of Neural Networks Using Spreadsheets (2018)
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An Economic Approach to Homer's Odyssey: Part I
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Turtle (Submersible)
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Incised artefacts from the Middle Palaeolithic and human behavioural complexity
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Shadows of the Coming Race (1879)
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George Eliot's reflections on AGI from 1879
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Edgware 1924: The Making of a Suburb
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Wolf Interval
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An Egyptian Temple Reborn
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Laryngeal Theory
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The familiar loneliness of the Kinetoscope
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A luminous, brave, and unputdownable article about blurbs
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Gold-Digging Ant
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RCA and the Roaring Twenties
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Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies
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2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
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Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing slave trade (2024)
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Mummies' Ancient Tattoos Come Under Laser Focus
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Sutton Hoo and Syria: Anglo-Saxons who served in the Byzantine army?
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How Pac-Man Revolutionized Gaming (2020)
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Public Domain Image Archive
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Wends of Texas
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Stone selection by wild chimpanzees shares patterns with Oldowan hominins
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Dancing Days of the Maya
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The accidental invention of the snow globe (2024)
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Archimedes, Vitruvius and Leonardo: The Odometer Connection (2020)
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Abstand and Ausbau Languages
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Secondary Consciousness
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White House Reconstruction
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Gods: Charles Fort's Book of the Damned (1919)
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Synergistic, multi-level understanding of psychedelics
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Why did clothing become boring?
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Minakata Kumagusu
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For the Love of a Little Sea
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Magicians Mount Search for Woman Behind Decades-Old Deception
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With DNA, Pompeii Narratives Take a Twist
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Reconstruction of Lomonosov's Discovery of Venus's Atmosphere (2012) [pdf]
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