Interesting Stuff

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Mostly, Wikipedia rabbit holes I’ve gone down and enjoyed.

Technology

The Internet

Photography

Trains & other transport

History of

Design

Construction

History

Pre-modern

England

To raise revenue without reconvening Parliament, Charles resurrected an all-but-forgotten law called the “Distraint of Knighthood”, in abeyance for over a century, which required any man who earned £40 or more from land each year to present himself at the king’s coronation to be knighted. Relying on this old statute, Charles fined individuals who had failed to attend his coronation in 1626.

20th-century

Literature

Maths

History

Statistics

Combinatorics, geometry

Codes

Numbers

Economics & finance

Business

Game theory

Biology

Medicine

Law

USA

denationalization as a punishment is barred by the Eighth Amendment [as it is] a form of punishment more primitive than torture

evolving standards of decency

Politics

China

Food

Geography