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A Certain Spindle-Shanked Miscreant
And other members of the New York Resistance, 1776-1783.
Nov 5
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Aaron Zinger
8
Don't Take Medical Advice From Porcupines
Potatoes do not cause scrofula.
Oct 21
•
Aaron Zinger
2
9
1
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
Let's Go To Greece
There's a modern medical breakthrough hiding in ancient myth.
Sep 15
•
Aaron Zinger
5
3
1
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
2
Triangle-Sitting
On the history of dance and the dance of history, plus an irrelevant cute dog story.
Aug 5
•
Aaron Zinger
6
3
This is a freedom struggle
A Muslim, a priest, and a rabbi get on a bus...
Jul 1
•
Aaron Zinger
8
1
Who Shot Richard Honey?
Let's crack a two hundred years cold case.
May 29
•
Aaron Zinger
2
1
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