Top Hackernews posts from daily.jstor.org

  1. When the push button was new, people were freaked (daily.jstor.org)
    304 points by SongofEarth almost 2 years ago | 183 comments
  2. Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020) (daily.jstor.org)
    302 points by areoform over 1 year ago | 332 comments
  3. Adding water to Martian soil samples might have been a bad idea (daily.jstor.org)
    250 points by onychomys about 1 year ago | 165 comments
  4. Vacations in the Soviet Union (daily.jstor.org)
    246 points by onychomys over 1 year ago | 406 comments
  5. The Carrington Event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines (daily.jstor.org)
    168 points by Thevet about 1 year ago | 153 comments
  6. The Miyawaki Method: A Better Way to Build Forests? (2019) (daily.jstor.org)
    166 points by nkurz over 3 years ago | 62 comments
  7. Two hundred years ago, Jean-François Champollion deciphers the Rosetta Stone (daily.jstor.org)
    165 points by samizdis almost 2 years ago | 78 comments
  8. Saffron: The Most Expensive Spice (daily.jstor.org)
    158 points by bookofjoe 6 months ago | 184 comments
  9. The Mellotron, an electronic keyboard of recorded samples, changed pop music (daily.jstor.org)
    156 points by samizdis about 1 year ago | 66 comments
  10. The Physics of Karate (2021) (daily.jstor.org)
    132 points by PaulHoule 5 months ago | 105 comments
  11. What’s causing the rise of hoarding disorder? (2019) (daily.jstor.org)
    128 points by rntn about 1 year ago | 214 comments
  12. Ancient culture torched its own homes every 60 years (daily.jstor.org)
    126 points by samizdis about 1 year ago | 108 comments
  13. What Happened to Tagging? (2019) (daily.jstor.org)
    125 points by Tomte over 2 years ago | 95 comments
  14. The Whole Earth Catalog, Where Counterculture Met Cyberculture (daily.jstor.org)
    113 points by conanxin almost 3 years ago | 19 comments
  15. Peter the Great’s Beard Tax (daily.jstor.org)
    108 points by lermontov about 3 years ago | 131 comments
  16. The Dubious Art of the Dad Joke (daily.jstor.org)
    107 points by jamesfe over 2 years ago | 118 comments
  17. The hunt for life in Alpha Centauri (daily.jstor.org)
    106 points by 8bitsrule 10 months ago | 104 comments
  18. Until the 14th century women dominated the field of beer brewing (daily.jstor.org)
    105 points by beardyw 10 months ago | 84 comments
  19. What happened to the dream of the Pan-American highway? (daily.jstor.org)
    97 points by PaulHoule 11 months ago | 120 comments
  20. Why companies are interested in Myers-Briggs types (daily.jstor.org)
    92 points by samizdis about 2 years ago | 238 comments
  21. How Street Dogs Spend Their Days (daily.jstor.org)
    92 points by erybodyknows over 2 years ago | 72 comments
  22. American librarians helped defeat the Nazis (daily.jstor.org)
    91 points by samclemens 10 months ago | 16 comments
  23. Walking streetlamps for hire in seventeenth-century London (daily.jstor.org)
    82 points by pepys almost 2 years ago | 18 comments
  24. Delts Don’t Lie (daily.jstor.org)
    78 points by fnubbly about 1 year ago | 61 comments
  25. The daguerreotype is famous – why not the calotype? (daily.jstor.org)
    77 points by Hooke about 1 year ago | 21 comments
  26. Why aren’t there more dogs at the doctor’s office? (daily.jstor.org)
    75 points by Ariarule over 2 years ago | 161 comments
  27. Chess, unlike war, is a game of perfect information (daily.jstor.org)
    73 points by item over 1 year ago | 76 comments
  28. Girls and dolls in the Roman Empire (daily.jstor.org)
    72 points by diodorus over 3 years ago | 49 comments
  29. How David Bohm and Hugh Everett changed quantum theory (daily.jstor.org)
    72 points by anarbadalov 3 months ago | 125 comments
  30. Transcribing bird sound as human speech (daily.jstor.org)
    70 points by tintinnabula over 1 year ago | 39 comments
  31. A Teen Celebrity in 1804 (daily.jstor.org)
    66 points by CoBE10 about 1 year ago | 13 comments
  32. How to Revive a Dead Language (daily.jstor.org)
    65 points by tintinnabula over 3 years ago | 58 comments
  33. The Private Life of a Cat (2020) (daily.jstor.org)
    63 points by benbreen about 3 years ago | 17 comments
  34. The Nimatron: first 'video game' debuted in 1939 (daily.jstor.org)
    62 points by samizdis over 2 years ago | 39 comments
  35. Walkers in the city and everywhere (daily.jstor.org)
    61 points by chippy 12 months ago | 54 comments
  36. An Incan nobleman contested Spanish history (daily.jstor.org)
    59 points by Thevet almost 3 years ago | 61 comments
  37. Plant of the Month: Robusta Coffee (2021) (daily.jstor.org)
    59 points by Tomte over 2 years ago | 73 comments
  38. Can Radio Really Educate? (daily.jstor.org)
    55 points by tintinnabula almost 3 years ago | 20 comments
  39. Library fires have always been tragedies – just ask Galen (daily.jstor.org)
    55 points by diodorus over 3 years ago | 41 comments
  40. Alpha. Bravo. Cyrillic (daily.jstor.org)
    53 points by sohkamyung almost 2 years ago | 100 comments
  41. The dangers of tea drinking in nineteenth century Ireland (daily.jstor.org)
    53 points by Stratoscope about 1 year ago | 73 comments
  42. The Claude Glass Changed the Way People Saw Landscapes (daily.jstor.org)
    52 points by Hooke over 3 years ago | 13 comments
  43. The disappearance of Japan’s “third gender” (daily.jstor.org)
    52 points by Thevet over 2 years ago | 93 comments
  44. An Archeologist’s Guide to Beer Cans (daily.jstor.org)
    51 points by Petiver over 3 years ago | 15 comments