History’s crisis detectives: how we’re using maths and data to reveal why societies collapse – and clues about the future (theconversation.com)
If the first solar entrepreneur hadn't been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century the way they did? (theconversation.com)
Celts (mander.xyz)
How photos are cabled across the Atlantic (1926) (mander.xyz)
Sauce: post.lurk.org/
Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals precise burial place of Plato (arstechnica.com)
The quest for the Holy Grail began long before King Arthur (www.nationalgeographic.com)
An ancient Greek computer (blog.nationalmuseum.ch)
Spartans Were Losers (foreignpolicy.com)
Why surgery and barbering were one occupation in the Middle Ages | Aeon Videos (aeon.co)
What Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated future (www.technologyreview.com)
How the codpiece flopped (www.bbc.com)
The strange reasons medieval people slept in cupboards (www.bbc.com)
The Mystery of the Coin That Shouldn’t Exist (www.nytimes.com)
The world very nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days (www.washingtonpost.com)
The Dog Who Served on Both Sides of the American Revolution (www.smithsonianmag.com)
87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games | Video Game History Foundation (gamehistory.org)
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