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Should a medical diagnosis reshape the past? (2025)

Posted by wyndham on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:12PM
from the chengela.substack.com dept.

https://chengela.substack.com/p/should-a-medical-diagnosis-reshape

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What's Not to Like?

Posted by wyndham on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @01:00PM
from the theamericanscholar.org dept.

https://theamericanscholar.org/whats-not-to-like/

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The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine

Posted by wyndham on Monday August 05, 2024 @11:49PM
from the books.worksinprogress.co dept.

https://books.worksinprogress.co/book/maintenance-of-everything/communities-of-practice/the-soul-of-maintaining-a-new-machine/1

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Using ClickHouse to scale an events engine

Posted by wyndham on Thursday April 11, 2024 @02:02PM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/getlago/lago/wiki/Using-Clickhouse-to-scale-an-events-engine

( Read More... | 98 comments | 78 points | on HN )

Hylomorphism

Posted by wyndham on Sunday December 17, 2023 @01:36AM
from the 1000wordphilosophy.com dept.

https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2023/12/04/hylomorphism/

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A Life of One’s Own: Marion Milner

Posted by wyndham on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @01:24PM
from the themarginalian.org dept.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/10/11/a-life-of-ones-own-joanna-field-marion-milner/

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Every Second Song

Posted by wyndham on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @12:18PM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/EverySecondSong

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Re:Tracing the Ephemeral (2018) on Sunday August 15, 2021 @03:39PM (#28191800)

Many videos here: https://artpil.com/dennis-hlynsky/

Tracing the Ephemeral (2018)

Posted by wyndham on Sunday August 15, 2021 @03:39PM
from the artpil.com dept.

https://artpil.com/news/tracing-the-ephemeral-dennis-hlynsky/

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The tragic tale of Monica Jones

Posted by wyndham on Thursday April 22, 2021 @04:56PM
from the theoldie.co.uk dept.

https://www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/the-tragic-tale-of-monica-jones-philip-larkins-girlfriend

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A lost paradise of purity: the late masterpieces of Schubert

Posted by wyndham on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:07AM
from the standpointmag.co.uk dept.

https://standpointmag.co.uk/a-lost-paradise-of-purity/

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Killing time with Agatha Christie

Posted by wyndham on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @05:30PM
from the newcriterion.com dept.

https://newcriterion.com/issues/2020/11/killing-time-with-agatha-christie

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The Writer-Diplomat Tradition

Posted by wyndham on Monday September 28, 2020 @05:31PM
from the robertfay.com dept.

http://robertfay.com/2020/09/in-search-of-the-writer-diplomat-tradition/

( Read More... | 9 comments | 20 points | on HN )

EUA Authorized Serology Test Performance

Posted by wyndham on Thursday June 11, 2020 @07:29PM
from the fda.gov dept.

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/emergency-situations-medical-devices/eua-authorized-serology-test-performance

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Re:Max Weber Invented the Crisis of the Humanities on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @11:14PM (#22420213)

Sorry about that. The whole article showed up for me.

Max Weber Invented the Crisis of the Humanities

Posted by wyndham on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @09:54PM
from the chronicle.com dept.

https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20200206-MaxWeber

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How much a baby is touched leaves measurable effects on DNA methylation (2017)

Posted by wyndham on Sunday December 08, 2019 @12:17PM
from the miamiherald.com dept.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article186889938.html

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How Ambient Chill Became the New Silence

Posted by wyndham on Sunday November 10, 2019 @02:55PM
from the topic.com dept.

https://www.topic.com/how-ambient-chill-became-the-new-silence

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Welcome to the Aerotropolis

Posted by wyndham on Sunday November 10, 2019 @02:50PM
from the ft.com dept.

https://www.ft.com/content/ac175580-a823-11e9-b6ee-3cdf3174eb89

( Read More... | 5 comments | 12 points | on HN )

They Published the Perished: NYRB Classics puts masterpieces back in print

Posted by wyndham on Monday October 14, 2019 @04:05PM
from the airmail.news dept.

https://airmail.news/issues/2019-10-12/they-publish-the-perished

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The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast

Posted by wyndham on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @07:17AM
from the forbes.com dept.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/07/12/the-czech-cyber-billionaire-who-built-a-fortune-on-free-software/

( Read More... | 51 comments | 62 points | on HN )

The Double Crossed Life of David Karr

Posted by wyndham on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @09:22PM
from the tabletmag.com dept.

https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/289876/the-double-crossed-life-of-david-karr

( Read More... | 1 comment | 9 points | on HN )

Citizen Kubrick (2004)

Posted by wyndham on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @02:44PM
from the theguardian.com dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/mar/27/features.weekend

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Mothers Are the Unsung Heroes of Prison

Posted by wyndham on Friday May 10, 2019 @10:01PM
from the themarshallproject.org dept.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/05/09/why-mothers-are-the-unsung-heroes-of-prison

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Bombay Nights

Posted by wyndham on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @10:00PM
from the aeon.co dept.

https://aeon.co/essays/night-school-and-the-dreams-of-bombays-factory-workers

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Re:Such Little Trousers on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:50AM (#19439394)

I posted this review of a novelist I had never heard of (who had?) because it gets increasingly interesting as it goes along.

Such Little Trousers

Posted by wyndham on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:49AM
from the lrb.co.uk dept.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n06/lavinia-greenlaw/such-little-trousers

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A Lost Monument to Industry and Traditional Urbanism

Posted by wyndham on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:03AM
from the theamericanconservative.com dept.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/a-lost-monument-to-industry-and-traditional-urbanism/

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Re:The Changing of the Guard (1991) on Thursday January 10, 2019 @02:46PM (#18877349)

These are related and I also found them interesting.

http://killingthebuddha.com/mag/exegesis/sex-shoes-and-calif...

https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/encounter-shadow-buddhist-am...

Those are historical articles but this one is about recent events:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/nyregion/shambhala-sexual...

The Changing of the Guard (1991)

Posted by wyndham on Thursday January 10, 2019 @02:30PM
from the tricycle.org dept.

https://tricycle.org/magazine/changing-guard/

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