Related: Dwarkesh Patel recently interviewed Ada Palmer:
replyWhy Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
Also Tim O'Neill of the History for Atheists weblog/channel:
reply* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq1ksVVeRWI
* https://historyforatheists.com/2025/04/interview-dr-ada-palm...
Other interesting interviews: the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth with Bart Ehrman and also Thomas Schmidt (using Josephus' Testimonium), the date of Christmas with Philipp Nothaft, 'pagan origins' of Easter with Andrew Henry (Religion for Breakfast channel), Tom Holland. Good weblog posts too.
Also on the Toldinstone channel:
While most folks are aware of "the" Renaissance, there were others earlier, e.g.:
reply> although there are traces of an earlier edition published by a more popular press
replyWhat’s that referring to?
The sentence after it explains. The core of "Reinventing the renaissance" is basically the renaissance-related blog entries from https://www.exurbe.com/ , developed further into a book.
replyI know that, but a blog isn't normally referred to as a "more popular press" so it doesn't fit.
replyGiven that today there's a concerted effort to effect a similar invention today wrt AI, this book is highly relevant.
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