History

Whoever Calls It Evil

Martyrs win the battle. Those who honor them win the war.

Jan 27 • Aaron Zinger

By The Light of The Moon

This is a coincidence. Everything is a coincidence.

Jan 8 • Aaron Zinger

This Is The Very Weakness

Fear the prophecies of Socrates and Thomas K. Dye.

Nov 25, 2025 • Aaron Zinger

How We Stopped Learning Math

A slow-motion train wreck people have been warning about for centuries.

Nov 20, 2025 • Aaron Zinger

A Certain Spindle-Shanked Miscreant

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

Nov 5, 2025 • Aaron Zinger

Don't Take Medical Advice From Porcupines

Potatoes do not cause scrofula.

Oct 21, 2025 • Aaron Zinger

Awful Possibilities of the New Speaking Phonograph

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

Oct 10, 2025 • Aaron Zinger

The View from the East River

Diaries of New York City tourists, 1774 - 1961

Oct 7, 2025 • Aaron Zinger

Let's Go To Greece

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

Sep 15, 2025 • Aaron Zinger

Prehistoric Algorithms, Part 2 - Fair Division

On the surprisingly difficult field of cake cutting.

Aug 29, 2025 • Aaron Zinger

Prehistoric Algorithms, Part 1 - Period Tracking

What math did we do before agriculture?

Aug 28, 2025 • Aaron Zinger

Levenshtein's Festival

On the mythic roots of autocorrect.

Aug 20, 2025 • Aaron Zinger

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