1672 October 1
I took spirit of urine and laudanum with milk for three preceding nights. Slept pretty well.
- The first airplane fatality
by Hooke on 3/9/26, 8:32 PM, with comments
- Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886)
by Hooke on 3/5/26, 11:48 PM, with comments
- Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction
by Hooke on 2/27/26, 8:27 AM, with comments
- What our DNA reveals about the sex life of Neanderthals
by Hooke on 2/26/26, 9:55 PM, with comments
- How Long Is the Coast of Britain? (1967)
by Hooke on 2/24/26, 11:14 PM, with comments
- Optophone
by Hooke on 2/20/26, 9:07 PM, with comments
- The mysterious symptom popping up in some GLP-1 users
by Hooke on 2/17/26, 10:42 PM, with comments
- Can you rewire your brain?
by Hooke on 2/10/26, 6:19 AM, with comments
- Daydreamers and Sleepwalkers: Crossing the Borderlands of the Unconscious
by Hooke on 2/5/26, 4:14 PM, with comments
- 'Empire of Madness' calls for 'the end of psychiatry'
by Hooke on 1/30/26, 5:36 AM, with comments
- A Light from the Periphery
by Hooke on 1/26/26, 4:08 PM, with comments
- Infinite Pancakes, Anyone?
by Hooke on 1/24/26, 12:14 AM, with comments
- Scientists in Dreamland
by Hooke on 1/21/26, 3:09 AM, with comments
- What a Wolf Pup's Stomach Revealed About the Woolly Rhino's Extinction
by Hooke on 1/15/26, 10:50 PM, with comments
- Overlooked No More: Inge Lehmann, Who Discovered the Earth's Inner Core
by Hooke on 12/22/25, 10:44 PM, with comments
- Kicking Robots
by Hooke on 12/6/25, 9:38 PM, with comments
- What, if anything, is universal to music cognition? (2024)
by Hooke on 11/25/25, 9:15 PM, with comments
- The Tune of Things: Is Consciousness God?
by Hooke on 11/25/25, 6:25 AM, with comments
- Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967)
by Hooke on 11/24/25, 5:47 AM, with comments
- The Boring Part of Bell Labs
by Hooke on 11/20/25, 8:31 PM, with comments
- The ant you can save
by Hooke on 11/14/25, 6:27 AM, with comments
- Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science
by Hooke on 11/14/25, 6:13 AM, with comments
- What Is the Ozma Problem, and Why Does It Matter?
by Hooke on 11/10/25, 9:54 PM, with comments
- A Man Who Rescued Faulkner
by Hooke on 11/6/25, 6:57 PM, with comments
- Belittled Magazine: Thirty years after the Sokal affair
by Hooke on 10/25/25, 9:37 PM, with comments
- Paratyphoid fever and relapsing fever in 1812 Napoleon's devastated army
by Hooke on 10/25/25, 4:19 AM, with comments
- The Nuclear Fail (2018)
by Hooke on 10/4/25, 4:18 AM, with comments
- An Unusual Way to End Up with a Whole Lot of Gold
by Hooke on 9/24/25, 5:45 AM, with comments
- My Story of Fraud and Betrayal
by Hooke on 9/15/25, 5:10 PM, with comments
- Zodiac Sign Is 2k Year Out of Date
by Hooke on 9/13/25, 11:39 AM, with comments
- A Crack in the Cosmos
by Hooke on 8/31/25, 4:11 AM, with comments
- Kanishka Stupa
by Hooke on 8/17/25, 11:01 PM, with comments
- X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls
by Hooke on 8/16/25, 8:54 PM, with comments
- Galileo's Telescopes: Seeing Is Believing
by Hooke on 8/12/25, 5:03 AM, with comments
- The Interactive Digital Transcription and Analysis Platform (2024)
by Hooke on 8/11/25, 9:03 PM, with comments
- Boring Billion
by Hooke on 7/28/25, 4:46 PM, with comments
- The Ps, the Qs, and the War
by Hooke on 7/23/25, 1:28 AM, with comments
- A 1960s schools experiment that created a new alphabet
by Hooke on 7/15/25, 4:33 PM, with comments
- Ars reflects on Apollo 13 turning 30
by Hooke on 7/1/25, 12:45 AM, with comments
- Hubert Dreyfus's views on artificial intelligence
by Hooke on 6/27/25, 11:24 PM, with comments
- E.A. Spitzka's Studies of Exceptional and Deviant Brains (2024)
by Hooke on 6/26/25, 6:11 PM, with comments
- Improving River Simulation
by Hooke on 6/25/25, 10:37 PM, with comments
- Project Stormfury
by Hooke on 6/23/25, 5:15 PM, with comments
- 'Proof' Review: Finding Truth in Numbers
by Hooke on 6/6/25, 9:17 PM, with comments
- Humpback Whales May Not See Their Most Dangerous Threats
by Hooke on 5/22/25, 6:57 PM, with comments
- PLATO (Computer System)
by Hooke on 5/21/25, 4:42 AM, with comments
- Hegel 2.0: The imaginary history of ternary computing (2018)
by Hooke on 5/12/25, 8:59 PM, with comments
- Einstein's Sense of Awe
by Hooke on 5/12/25, 6:36 PM, with comments
- Catastrophic fires and soil degradation: possible link with Neolithic revolution
by Hooke on 5/4/25, 11:13 AM, with comments