A Chinese-language personal essay blog that pairs episodes from the history of science, such as Darwin's beetle collecting and James Watt's steam engine repair, with reflections on everyday questions. It also covers parenting and how to plan a child's summer holidays, asking what each activity is for.
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An independent journal of long-form essays on horology history, covering individual watchmakers, specific historic timepieces and the longitude problem. Readers get archival, object-focused research on makers who are often overlooked or misattributed.
Long-form essays on psychedelic research, covering pharmacology, policy, philosophy of mind and the cultural and anthropological contexts of DMT and related compounds. Writing is by Stephen Page and draws on academic sources, including coursework from an Exeter MSc, to examine how psychedelic experience and its history are interpreted.
A history-of-ideas newsletter that uses past scientific and technological episodes, such as Kuhn's paradigm shifts and Bell Labs' machine learning work, to think about where AI is heading. Its essays are long, carefully argued and well sourced, with a focus on how progress actually happens.
Long-form essays on the history of ideas and human affairs, from the origins of calculus to Euler's personality and race-based slavery in the Muslim world. Readers get detailed, well-referenced historical explanation that goes beyond popular summaries.
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