popular social science for the curious mind
We write a short summary on the ONE THING that we find the most interesting
Supplying history enthusiasts their weekly fix!
Complex topics explained in exactly 500 words.
You need more silly baseball card nostalgia in your life.
Language is stories, all the way down. Stories are history, all the way down.
Why movies exist in multiple versions.
Understand the World in 4-Minute Knowledge Bites
Easy to digest history of medicine and health.
The Secret History (and Future) of Home Economics
daily bite-sized ideas and notes that matter
Indian revolutionaries and other history
Short and serialised fiction, direct to your inbox.
Old Goats with Jonathan Alter
Ruminating with friends
systems | complexity | second-order effects
Learn something new everyday.
your daily dose of history
Writings on the adversities and splendours I encounter on my travels.
A public notebook of eclectic findings
A newsletter about science fiction, reading, and the future
It takes more than a month to learn our history.
A newsletter about coffee—its culture, politics, and history.
Eleven Names Project: Open Notebook
Weekly notes on enslaved life in Massachusetts and New England.
On culture, the arts, politics, and religion
The Time Traveling Salesman
Follow the misadventures of Jon Constant as he sells galaxy changing ideas.
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
An internet history newsletter by Ernie. Hunting for the end of the long tail.
This Week On The Internet
Top 5 articles & videos, curated by a real person, a weekly brain feast!