Historian Balances Dark Research with Food Styling as Creative Escape

Catriona Byers is a historian specializing in the dark and harrowing subjects of 19th-century morgues, urban death, policing, and forensics, but she also works as a food stylist photographing dishes for magazines and advertisements. Her work with food provides a necessary break from her emotionally ... [More info]

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College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history

Hobbyist training AI on Victorian texts gets an unexpected history lesson from his own creation.

Ars Technica
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Taking stock of academic research projects and papers in progress

An advantage of being a quasi-independent academic – albeit affiliated too (thanks Dundee University for my long-term and recently renewed honorary research fellowship!) is that I can choose …

Viv's Academic Blog
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HMS Endeavour: Captain Cook’s missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago

HMS Endeavour, which had been lost for centuries, has finally been discovered off the coast of Rhode Island

The Independent

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Cambridge Mapping Project Solves a Medieval Murder - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In 2019, we told you about a new interactive digital "murder map" of London compiled by University of Cambridge criminologist Manuel Eisner. Drawing on data catalogued in the city coroners' rolls, the map showed the approximate location of 142 h...