Articles by crescit_eundo
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So you want to build a tunnel (practical.engineering)

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The Life (and Death) of Marat: He was much more than that guy in the bathtub (worldhistory.substack.com)

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Frederick Douglass and the Power of the Photograph (worldhistory.substack.com)

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Surf's Up in Slop City (countercraft.substack.com)

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I Love Free Software Day 2026 (fsfe.org)

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Being Maximally Useful Whilst Commuting (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Heuristics for lab robotics, and where its future may go (owlposting.com)

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Trying to make an Automated Ecologist: A first pass through the Biotime dataset (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Will Future Generations Think We're Gross? (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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PPE Stockpile Degradation (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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The social value of the freedom to study source code in the Spanish Court (fsfe.org)

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Typing for Love or Money (publicdomainreview.org)

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What New Technologies Do to Fragile Minds (worldhistory.substack.com)

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Short-Form Truths: The Tweet, the Wall Text, and the New Moral Style (clunyjournal.com)

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Do Stormwater Retention Ponds Actually Work? Detention vs. Retention (practical.engineering)

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AI After Drug Development (asteriskmag.substack.com)

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The Route of History: Geology and Empire Collide on the Danube (worldhistory.substack.com)

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We Don't Remember What We Think, Only What We Do (raptitude.com)

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Why "Plot" Isn't a Four-Letter Word (countercraft.substack.com)

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Safety And Danger: Why not both? (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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So I got an EEG: A weekend measuring my brainwaves (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Questions to ponder when evaluating neurotech approaches (owlposting.com)

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Kingdoms of Water: The Mekong River, empire, and the limits of human ingenuity (worldhistory.substack.com)

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Bio-Theory Lab Notes: Growth Rates and Worm Brains (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Why Read Novels? (dynomight.net)

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Cover Your Twenty-Five Miles, Then Rest Up and Sleep (raptitude.com)

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A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (Ca. 1900–22) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch (publicdomainreview.org)

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No, the King Doesn't Own All the Swans in Britain. So Who Does? (2023) (weirdmedievalguys.substack.com)

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Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns? (2023) (weirdmedievalguys.substack.com)

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Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes (2023) (weirdmedievalguys.substack.com)

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Explore medieval life and death with these 5 fun interactive maps (2023) (weirdmedievalguys.substack.com)

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An 800 year old prayer book that's decorated with puns (2023) (weirdmedievalguys.substack.com)

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How Birds Got Human Names (2025) (weirdmedievalguys.substack.com)

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The Digitalist Papers, Vol. 2: The Economics of Transformative AI (digitalistpapers.com)

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You signed an AI privacy policy. What did you agree to? (projectliberty.io)

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The hidden engineering of runways (practical.engineering)

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How Can I Make Useful Knowledge? On trying to be useful with words (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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An Artery of Empire: The Rise and Fall of China's Grand Canal (worldhistory.substack.com)

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Integer programming easily encloses horse (dynomight.substack.com)

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How Machines Shape the Way We Write (worldhistory.substack.com)

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The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference (owlposting.com)

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Someone Has to Fly the Plane (raptitude.com)

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From Eden to El Dorado: The Orinoco River's long history of attracting outsiders (worldhistory.substack.com)

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20 References in Complexity Theory and Biology (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Ancient > Modern: Recreating an Ancient Pump (with no moving parts) (practical.engineering)

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The End of Egypt: How the first cataract of the Nile shaped millennia of history (worldhistory.substack.com)

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We found cryptography bugs in the elliptic library using Wycheproof (trailofbits.com)

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Can chatbots craft correct code? (trailofbits.com)

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Tom Thumb's Marriage: An Unexpectedly Modern "Fairy Wedding" (worldhistory.substack.com)

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How to Tame a River (worldhistory.substack.com)

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The ML drug discovery startup trying really, really hard to not cheat (owlposting.com)

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Good if make prior after data instead of before, because truth is many (dynomight.substack.com)

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Cheese Mites and Sludge Worms: The Origins of Grossout Cinema (worldhistory.substack.com)

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What if we could grow human tissue by recapitulating embryogenesis? (owlposting.com)

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Sawing a Dam in Half (On Purpose) (practical.engineering)

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The Lost Valley: Damming of Hetch Hetchy (worldhistory.substack.com)

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Using Linear Algebra to Predict a Non-Linear Pendulum (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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From Pearl River to Gold Mountain: How Chinese Immigrants Helped Create the West (worldhistory.substack.com)

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Books as Art Projects (countercraft.substack.com)

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Why the chicken crossed the road, according to various entities (dynomight.substack.com)

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Inventing Breakfast (worldhistory.substack.com)

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Human art in a post-AI world should be strange (owlposting.com)

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The Man I Want to Meet the Most: The Life of Alfred Lee Loomis (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Practical Engineering: Hurricane vs. Tiny House (practical.engineering)

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Wonderland, Incorporated: Marketing the national parks (worldhistory.substack.com)

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When Is a Complex System Stable? (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting (publicdomainreview.org)

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Literary Philosophy and Philosophical Literature (countercraft.substack.com)

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I made a quieter air purifier (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Bringing organ-scale cryopreservation into existence (Hunter Davis, #6) [video] (owlposting.com)

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Bill Watterson Returns with The Mysteries (2024) (comicsbeat.com)

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Make product worse, get money (dynomight.substack.com)

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We avoided side-channels in our new post-quantum Go cryptography libraries (trailofbits.com)

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Vulnerabilities in LUKS2 disk encryption for confidential VMs (trailofbits.com)

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Balancer hack analysis and guidance for the DeFi ecosystem (trailofbits.com)

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Arrival Radar (entropicthoughts.com)

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Short Little Difficult Books (countercraft.substack.com)

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The Hidden Engineering Behind the Falkirk Wheel (practical.engineering)

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The Best General View of Yosemite (worldhistory.substack.com)

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Z-machine coding problems, and what to automate (buttondown.com/entropicthoughts)

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Improving the UV-yeast experiment with sterile technique (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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From Railway Madness to Digital Anxiety (worldhistory.substack.com)

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Success of CHIPS Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors: A Series (factorysettings.org)

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Can ML enable 100-Plex cryo-EM structure determination? (owlposting.com)

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The Making of the Gilded West: Science, speculation, and the conquest of nature (worldhistory.substack.com)

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Cencora makes $1B investment in pharma supply chains (freightwaves.com)

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Yellow's $137M-plus lawsuit against Teamsters revived (freightwaves.com)

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PlusAI, International, Nvidia move closer to autonomous truck commercialization (freightwaves.com)

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Kodiak's virtual drivers ace a human fleet safety score by Nauto (freightwaves.com)

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Use mutation testing to find the bugs your tests don't catch (trailofbits.com)

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Supply chain attacks are exploiting our assumptions (trailofbits.com)

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Visibility at scale: How Figma detects sensitive data exposure (figma.com)

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Interview: Fisher the Bookseller on How Bookstores Decide Which Books to Sell (countercraft.substack.com)

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DynamoDB outage analysis and asking experts for timelines (buttondown.com/entropicthoughts)

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Weather Forecasts Are Punctuated (entropicthoughts.com)

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Concrete's Greatest Weakness (practical.engineering)

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The Bases of Antenna Towers (practical.engineering)

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You Are Fucked If You Can't Write Clearly. And That's Pretty Scary. (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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The King of Games: Alfonso X's Libro de Juegos (worldhistory.substack.com)