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- The Carrington Event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines https://daily.jstor.org/the-carrington-event-of-1859-disrupted-telegraph-lines/ 153 comments
- Ancient culture torched its own homes every 60 years https://daily.jstor.org/burned-house-mystery-why-did-this-ancient-culture-torch-its-own-homes-every-60-years/ 108 comments
- Ode to Samuel Delany https://daily.jstor.org/ode-to-samuel-delany/ 3 comments
- The New York City kosher meat boycott of 1902 https://daily.jstor.org/inside-the-new-york-city-kosher-meat-boycott-of-1902/ 43 comments
- Praising Maple Sugar in the Early American Republic https://daily.jstor.org/praising-maple-sugar-in-the-early-american-republic/ 6 comments
- Why aren’t there more dogs at the doctor’s office? https://daily.jstor.org/why-arent-there-more-dogs-at-the-doctors-office/ 161 comments
- 1918 flu pandemic’s impact on movie theaters https://daily.jstor.org/the-1918-flu-pandemics-impact-on-movie-theaters/ 13 comments
- When Paid Applauders Ruled the Paris Opera House https://daily.jstor.org/paid-applauders-paris-opera-claques/ 9 comments
- Charles Darwin’s Descent of Man, 150 Years Later https://daily.jstor.org/charles-darwins-descent-of-man-150-years-later/ 25 comments
- The treadmill was invented as a prison rehabilitation device https://daily.jstor.org/treadmills-were-meant-to-be-atonement-machines/ 44 comments
- The Race to Save the Axolotl https://daily.jstor.org/the-race-to-save-the-axolotl/ 45 comments
- Scientists Have an Answer to How the Pyramids Could Have Been Built http://daily.jstor.org/scientists-have-an-answer-to-how-the-egyptian-pyramids-were-built/ 74 comments
- Kids Need Dads—Or Do They? Data suggest that fathers can be fantastic, but there’s no magic ingredient they supply for children’s emotional, educational, or social development. https://daily.jstor.org/kids-need-dads-or-do-they/ 4 comments anthropology
- Forests as Fuel: Is Bioenergy Carbon Neutral? Can using forest harvests for biofuel be carbon neutral? A case study of the Northern Forest appears to say "No" https://daily.jstor.org/forests-as-fuel-is-bioenergy-carbon-neutral/ 6 comments futurology
- Why the History of Science Should Matter to Scientists https://daily.jstor.org/why-the-history-of-science-should-matter-to-scientists/ 2 comments science
- The Power of Sibling Bonds in The Brothers Karamazov: In the year of Dostoevsky’s bicentennial, a revisiting of familial relationships in one of his most popular works. https://daily.jstor.org/the-power-of-sibling-bonds-in-the-brothers-karamazov 57 comments books
- The Feminist History of “Child Allowances” https://daily.jstor.org/the-feminist-history-of-child-allowances 35 comments truereddit
- When Language Goes Viral https://daily.jstor.org/when-language-goes-viral/ 5 comments linguistics
- The Patron Saint of Bookstores: 100 years ago, Sylvia Beach, the first publisher of James Joyce’s Ulysses, opened the doors to her legendary bookstore, Shakespeare & Co. https://daily.jstor.org/the-patron-saint-of-bookstores/ 3 comments books
- Happy Birthday to Cyberspace! The first message sent through the ARPANET was “LO.”, 50 years ago. It was supposed to be “LOGIN,” but the network crashed after the first two letters. https://daily.jstor.org/happy-birthday-to-cyberspace/ 29 comments technology
- Regrowing Germany's Trees After WWII: the cities of Dresden and Hamburg saw their green spaces decimated by WWII, but each city grew back its trees in a very different way. https://daily.jstor.org/regrowing-germanys-trees-after-wwii/ 88 comments europe
- Lee Smolin: Science Works Because We Care to Know the Truth https://daily.jstor.org/lee-smolin-science-works-because-we-care-to-know-the-truth/ 117 comments philosophy
- When Did the Verb “To Be” Enter the English Language? https://daily.jstor.org/when-did-the-verb-to-be-enter-english-language/ 7 comments linguistics
- When Europeans Feared the Wind: In early modern Europe, various sorts of winds were associated with illness and even death https://daily.jstor.org/when-europeans-feared-the-wind/ 8 comments europe
- The Real First Written Constitution: American often gets credit for having the first written constitution. But the constitution of the short-lived republic of Corsica preceded it by 30+ years https://daily.jstor.org/the-real-first-written-constitution/ 31 comments europe
- What Awaits on the Dark Side of the Moon? https://daily.jstor.org/what-awaits-on-the-dark-side-of-the-moon/ 5 comments space
- Cornel West: Neoliberalism Has Failed Us https://daily.jstor.org/cornel-west-interview/ 5 comments economy
- Wittgenstein on Whether Speech is Violence https://daily.jstor.org/wittgenstein-whether-speech-violence/ 22 comments philosophy
- The Moral Threat of Bicycles in the 1890s https://daily.jstor.org/the-moral-threat-of-bicycles-in-the-1890s/ 4 comments bicycling
- Is Scotland a Nation? https://daily.jstor.org/is-scotland-a-nation/ 5 comments europe
- The Mysterious Ocean of Enceladus http://daily.jstor.org/mysterious-ocean-enceladus/ 8 comments space
- Should We Set a Speed Limit on High-Speed Trading? http://daily.jstor.org/speed-limit-high-speed-trading/ 17 comments economy
- The Cicadas Are Back http://daily.jstor.org/cicadas-are-back/ 3 comments science
- Sugar Has Always Been Bad http://daily.jstor.org/sugar-has-always-been-bad/ 4 comments history
- The Moral Threat of Bicycles in the 1890s: cocaine, skipping church, and unchaperoned dates. http://daily.jstor.org/the-moral-threat-of-bicycles-in-the-1890s/ 61 comments bicycling
- The Largest Forced Migration In European History http://daily.jstor.org/largest-forced-migration-european-history/ 12 comments history
- When San Diego Hired a Rainmaker a Century Ago, It Poured http://daily.jstor.org/charles-hatfield-rainmaker/ 21 comments history
- Scientists Have an Answer to How the Egyptian Pyramids Were Built http://daily.jstor.org/scientists-have-an-answer-to-how-the-egyptian-pyramids-were-built/?utm_source=internalhouse&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_new-myjstor_10082015&cid=eml_j_jstordaily_new-myjstor_10082015 3 comments science
- Can Hip Hop Save Endangered Languages? http://daily.jstor.org/word-mother-tongue-can-hip-hop-save-endangered-languages/ 13 comments linguistics
- The Latest Legacy of Acid Rain: Jellied Lakes http://daily.jstor.org/the-latest-legacy-of-acid-rain-jellied-lakes/ 3 comments science
Linking pages
- The Misinformation Susceptibility Test (MIST): A psychometrically validated measure of news veracity discernment | SpringerLink https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-023-02124-2 326 comments
- Opinion | Why Aren’t We Curious About the Things We Want to Be Curious About? - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/opinion/sunday/curiosity-brain.html 119 comments
- What if AI Operated with Intellectual Humility? - JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/what-if-ai-operated-with-intellectual-humility/ 1 comment