Notes on the history of technology, medicine, science, art, drugs, and empire from UC Santa Cruz history professor Benjamin Breen. Also: using AI in research and teaching.
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An ocean of stories from Salman Rushdie: I'll be talking about stories I’ve read or seen, true stories, tall stories, stories about me, and some I just made up.
Exploring the Christian moral life with cold takes and nuance. The moral life of the Christian community, and those things which sustain and damage it.
explorations at the intersections of deep time, theology, the human past, and the fraught present
"The adaptations, the fusions /
the transmogrifications /
but always /
the inward continuities /
of the site /
of place"
Essays by Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly columnist and author of Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage (2022), What If This Were Enough? (2018), How to Be a Person in the World (2016), and Disaster Preparedness (2011)
A newsletter about science, social-justice-activism, why they sometimes fight, and how to help them get along better -- plus a good deal of other, more random stuff.