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The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
Book blogger Eric Karl Anderson reviews The Blazing World, Margaret Cavendish's 1666 utopian fantasy of a parallel world…
The Book of Enoch Online
The full text of the Book of Enoch in the R.H. Charles Oxford translation from The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the O…
The Booker in the 1970s: 10 Novels Worth Rediscovering
A guided tour of ten Booker-shortlisted novels from the 1970s that have slipped out of fashion, with notes on why each o…
The Brains Blog
A long-running academic blog covering philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and neuroscience through posts from researc…
The Brief Origins of May Day
A short history of how the 1886 Chicago eight-hour-day strikes and the Haymarket affair turned May 1 into International…
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The British Empire's Resilient Subsea Telegraph Network
A history of the Victorian undersea telegraph cables that tied the British Empire together, and why their routing was de…
The Caduceus Isn't The Medical Symbol You Think It Is
An explainer on how the caduceus, the snake-entwined staff of Hermes, got confused with the Rod of Asclepius and ended u…
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The Camel, the Rope, and the Needle's Eye
A classicist digs into the Greek word kamilos to ask whether the famous New Testament saying meant a camel or a rope, tr…
The Case Against Computers in Math Education
Neal Koblitz's classic essay arguing that computers and calculators can shortchange mathematical understanding in the cl…
The Case for Dennis Rodman, Part 1 (a)
The opening of a long, data-driven series arguing with advanced basketball metrics that Dennis Rodman was far more valua…
The Case for Not Sanitizing Fairy Tales
An essay arguing that unsanitized fairy tales are the best way for children to learn that the world holds evil, violence…
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The Cat in the Medieval Bestiary
A medievalist's illustrated post on how cats appear in medieval bestiaries, with manuscript images of mouse-hunting cats…
The Chatelaine of Vergi
Read the medieval French romance The Chatelaine of Vergi in Eugene Mason's translation, a tragic tale of secret love and…
The Chaucer Astrolabe (1326)
A detailed look at the 1326 astrolabe from the treasure of Richard II, with radiography and images, part of a site recon…
The Chemistry of Matches
A clear Compound Interest infographic and explainer on what is in a match head and striking strip, and the chain of chem…
The Closing of the Bulgarian Frontier
A long-form essay by Dimiter Kenarov on the Bulgarian border country and the changing life at the edge of Europe, from S…
The Colours of the Middle Ages
How were colours made in the Middle Ages? This exhibit explains medieval pigments and dyes from plants, animals and mine…
The Common
A literary magazine centered on the idea of place, publishing fiction, poetry, essays, and international dispatches that…
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The Complex Grid
An illustrated walkthrough of Karl Gerstner's famous grid for Capital magazine: a six-column grid layered on a four-colu…
The Computer Genius the Communists Couldn't Stand
The story of Jacek Karpinski, who built a briefcase-sized computer in 1970s Poland that ran a million operations per sec…
The Counter-Cartographer Who Mapped Hope
An essay recovering the story of Louise E. Jefferson, a pioneering Black American mapmaker whose illustrated maps of Afr…
The Creative Penn
Author Joanna Penn's long-running blog and podcast on fiction writing craft and the realities of self-publishing and the…
The Curious Case of MD5
A curious investigation into why the International Criminal Court hashes digital evidence with MD5, and whether that old…
The Curse of the Roeblings?
A Museum of the City of New York article on the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the misfortunes of engineers Joh…
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