A Certain Spindle-Shanked Miscreant

And other members of the New York Resistance, 1776-1783.

Nov 5 • 

Aaron Zinger

7

October 2025

Don't Take Medical Advice From Porcupines

Potatoes do not cause scrofula.

Oct 21 • 

Aaron Zinger

2

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Awful Possibilities of the New Speaking Phonograph

What we got right and wrong about the invention of audio recording.

Oct 10 • 

Aaron Zinger

4

2

The View from the East River

Diaries of New York City tourists, 1774 - 1961

Oct 7 • 

Aaron Zinger

September 2025

Theoxenia

Let's politicize Huntington's disease! It'll be fun!

Sep 26 • 

Aaron Zinger

8

2

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Let's Go To Greece

There's a modern medical breakthrough hiding in ancient myth.

Sep 15 • 

Aaron Zinger

5

3

1

Still Unbroken

The story of a hate crime in Dallas shows how the complexities of identity can divide and unite us.

Published on Outlandish Claims • Sep 11

Hugo Steinhaus on Generative AI

"It's unknown whether one should rejoice or worry that the near future will provide us with a companion in the form of a box that would give banal…

Sep 5 • 

Aaron Zinger

1

August 2025

Prehistoric Algorithms, Part 2 - Fair Division

On the surprisingly difficult field of cake cutting.

Aug 29 • 

Aaron Zinger

6

1

Prehistoric Algorithms, Part 1 - Period Tracking

What math did we do before agriculture?

Aug 28 • 

Aaron Zinger

7

1

Levenshtein's Festival

On the mythic roots of autocorrect.

Aug 20 • 

Aaron Zinger

4

3

1

The Hermit and the Bear

A cautionary tale whose moral keeps changing.

Aug 15 • 

Aaron Zinger

3

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