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03/07/2025

In 1655, Christiaan Huygens sent a letter about a “star” he was studying in the vicinity of Saturn to English mathematician John Wallis, writing that his instruments “admovere oculis distantia sidera nostris, vvvvvvvcccrrhnbqx.”

Seventeenth-century science was so competitive that Christiaan Huygens used a cipher to conceal his Saturn observations when sharing them with interlocutors.

03/07/2025

Despite the wheel’s immeasurable impact on our culture(s), no one is certain as to who invented it, or when and where it was first conceived.

Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology nearly 6,000 years ago.

02/07/2025

Pan-Asianism of the twentieth century represented a reaction to assumptions that being modern required nations to assimilate into a universal culture based on Western norms. In such a schema, Japan would be destined to lead. The idea—or myth—about the country’s exceptionalism endures.

Observers have long hailed Japan’s aptitude for cultural synthesis. Is this characterization warranted, or does it reflect a collective fantasy about exceptionalism?

01/07/2025

After World War II, bicycles represented only 17 percent of traffic in Copenhagen. How did the city’s citizens transform the Danish capital into the bicycle friendly city we know today?

How did Copenhagen become a “city of cyclists,” where a third of all journeys are by bicycle?

01/07/2025

Phineas Gage is the poster child for the experience of “disinhibition” in people with brain injuries, but it turns out that little of what’s been written about him is true. Rethinking his story might help doctors give more respect to patients’ agency. Disinhibition and more in this week’s Suggested Readings:

Well-researched stories from Public Books, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

30/06/2025

Racial segregation was the guiding principle of the labor regime in the Panama Canal Zone. White employees received untaxed income, free housing, healthcare, and other benefits. Black workers, both migrants and African Panamanians, were treated as industrial cannon fodder.

The criminalization of Blackness enabled by the Thirteenth Amendment brought chain gangs to the construction projects of the Panama Canal Zone.

30/06/2025

When I was growing up, "sarvisberry jam" was synonymous with "summer with the grandparents." Great article from Nina Foster of the Planet Humanities Lab at Dumbarton Oaks.

With berry season in full swing, our June feature on JSTOR Daily spotlights a foraged fruit that has sustained humans and wildlife for millennia. Delve into the history of the juneberry — known also as the misâskwatômin, serviceberry, shadbush, or saskatoon — in “Juneberry: A Summer Sweet for People, Pollinators, and Birds” by Nina Foster.
https://daily.jstor.org/juneberry-a-summer-berry-for-people-pollinators-and-birds/

29/06/2025

When phosphorus enters the water through runoff from farm fields or overflow from the oceans of animal waste created by factory meat production, it supercharges algal blooms. Not good.

Phosphorus is essential for fertilizing high-yield agriculture. The US domestic supply, restricted to Florida, is expected to run out in a couple of decades.

28/06/2025

In Georgian England, height was associated with social status and power. It could also signal unchecked ambition and despotism.

Given its strong gendered associations, it may be surprising that height hasn’t been well studied by historians.

27/06/2025

During Indira Gandhi’s autocratic Emergency in 1975, one New Delhi coffeehouse became a key gathering place for opponents of her politics.

27/06/2025

Native to eastern North America, the serviceberry acquired several common names as it spread across the continent. Maybe you’ve heard of the juneberry, the shadbush, or the saskatoon, or maybe you grew up eating sarvisberry jam. In collaboration with the Plant Humanities Lab at Dumbarton Oaks:

For millennia, Indigenous peoples in North America derived sustenance from the juneberry, known also as the misâskwatômin, serviceberry, shadbush, or saskatoon.

26/06/2025

It’s not so surprising that cocos de mer were supposed to be protection against poisoning, writes Isabel dos Guimarães Sá; these kinds of legends tend to attach themselves to precious rarities.

Once viewed as a precious item of mysterious origin, the seed of the coco do mer palm, though better understood today, remains a rare and valuable commodity.

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