A personal Substack blog covering the history of science, public health and literature, with essays that trace how mundane institutions shaped major events. Issues include a researched history essay on Britain's lost dye industry, a year-end books and links roundup, and reflective notes on air pollution in India.
Website: https://www.mundane.beauty
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 newsletter covering space, astronomy, physics and occasionally the history of mathematics, mixing weekly roundups with in-depth narrative features. Readers get context on telescopes, experiments and scientific controversies rather than just headlines.
Long-form essays on the history of mathematics, science and society, including the origins of calculus, the life of Euler, and race and slavery in the Muslim world. Readers get well-sourced, narrative historical analysis of figures and ideas.
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