Res Obscura
Benjamin BreenNotes on the history of technology, medicine, science, art, drugs, and empire. Also: AI in research and teaching.
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Why I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years
I was 25 years old when I started writing the blog version of Res Obscura, which ran from 2010 to 2023 (and still exists here). This was the early summer of 2010. I was a second-year PhD student in history, living with two roommates in a 19...
How well can Gemini 3 make a Henry James simulator?
This quarter I have been teaching two large-ish history classes at UCSC and beginning a new book project, Ghosts of the Machine Age, about the psychology pioneer William James, his siblings Alice and Henry, and the late Victorian “prehistor...
Can automation help make the humanities more human?
An oddly familiar article in the Feb. 25, 1940 New York Times.
The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot
Derek Thompson’s recent essay, “The End of Thinking,” states the problem faced by educators today more clearly than anything else I’ve read.
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Historian of science, medicine, technology, drugs, and culture at UCSC.
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