Palaces and the Pope: the fascinating story of how Renaissance Rome was rebuilt by Alyssa Rusonik Uncertainty over whether the seat of the papacy would remain in the city explains why Rome was a late …
A new datasets portal for bulk downloads of all 23+ million pages in the collection. It also provides direct access to over 425,000 pages of newly upgraded OCR text. New batches added to Chronicling A…
@cyberquixote take a look at this article: https://www.sites.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/keplerastrol.html
@cyberquixote you should complain with @thecollector who owns this article authorship
🧩 A math puzzle. 🚗 A solar car. 🌪️ Natural-disaster insurance. ⚡ Electricity oversupply in Kyushu. These were four very different questions put to ClimateGPT 4.3, a specialized climate model, during a …
How Johannes Kepler Accidentally Destroyed the Science of Astrology Kepler was a court astrologer, but also a man of science, whose search for the truth had unintended consequences. https://www.thecol…
10 Essential Works of Decadent Literature You Need to Read Plunge into ten works from 19th-century Europe's literature of perverse pleasures and perplexing pastimes. by Dr. Victoria C. Roskams https:/…
Medieval Scottish Man May Be First Confirmed Case of Death by Trebuchet https://archaeology.org/news/2026/08/19/medieval-scottish-man-may-be-first-confirmed-case-of-death-by-trebuchet/ #history #arche…
Project Gutenberg News - September 2026 Contents Usage of Project Gutenberg Offline Cover Images 100th Anniversary of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 100th Anniversary of Winnie-the-Pooh by A. …
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@RachelThornSub I don't believe in coincidences, but I do believe in synchronicity. As for the article about Andersen, it doesn't explicitly address the meltdown issue, such a pity.
@Unlikelylass Thanks, I do need an extra pair of glasses...
Negativland LIVE at Internet Archive! For more than 40 years, Negativland has turned found sound, radio & mass media into provocative art. Over The Edge: Significantly Less Deceptive brings that to li…
Gerda Wegener: The Forgotten Queer Icon of Art Deco Gerda Wegener was one of the most popular illustrators of her time and the artist who celebrated queer experiences. https://www.thecollector.com/ger…
Neuroqueering on the lawn Hans Christian Andersen’s tantrum in Charles Dickens’s garden was a case of ‘too muchness’, emotions bursting past respectability by Siobhan Unwin and Kathryne Ford https://a…
My unsung hero of science: Harriet Taylor Mill, the radical feminist philosopher who lived in the shadow of her husband I first heard about Harriet Taylor Mill when reading about her much more famous …
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"The scientific genius is so like the old Hebrew prophet. He singles out the essential from the mass of facts before him, and then - lifts up his eyes." The Way of Escape: A Novel, 1902. ~Margaret Tod…
What Gulliver Saw by Katie Ebner-Landy Gulliver’s Travels uses the land of the Houyhnhnms and Yahoos to explore whether being recognized as human is based on observable characteristics. https://www.lr…
