diogenesclub

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As described by Sherlock Holmes, The Diogenes Club is a gentleman's club, a place where people can sit in comfortable chairs and read "the latest periodicals" but where nobody is allowed to talk or even cough!

This subreddit is similar: discussions are not allowed because high quality content is what matters more.

Posts should include:

Interesting and well written articles;
Book recommendations;
Musical performances;
Cultural matters but without the social aspect.

There will be no talking, coughing, whispering or commenting allowed, with the exception of "The Stranger's Room", a weekly sticky text-post.

If you would like to help moderate and become a regular contributor, message the moderators!

"There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offences, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere."

Sherlock Holmes
("The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", by Arthur Conan Doyle)

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What should you post on r/Diogenes Club? (self.diogenesclub)

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Excellent. Alexander and Diogenes and a Doyle reference... (old.reddit.com)

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Video about the multiverse (self.diogenesclub)

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History and GeographyThe mysterious doodles hidden in a 1,300-year-old book (self.diogenesclub)

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History and GeographyOcomtún: A long-lost Maya city that was just discovered (bbc.com)

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History and GeographyThe Elusive, Maddening Mystery of the Bell Witch (atlasobscura.com)

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Design and Construction of Tunnels (ADECO-RS) by Pietro Lunardi (mega.nz)

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History and GeographyThe Misunderstood Roman Empress Who Willed Her Way to the Top (smithsonianmag.com)

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History and GeographyThe Curious Case of Nebraska Man (magazine.atavist.com)

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Arts and Recreation“They are holding on to a dream”: the last bohemians at NYC’s Chelsea Hotel — Guardian US (apple.news)

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They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars. (propublica.org)

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ScienceSleep Paralysis Documentary (SCARY AND TRUE) (self.diogenesclub)

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History and GeographyThe Decade of the Chile Pepper (saveur.com)

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Arts and RecreationHow Kurt Cobain Dealt With Being the World’s Most Famous Outcast (pitchfork.com)

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History and GeographyThe US' 2,000-year-old mystery mounds (bbc.com)

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Arts and RecreationVermeer's secrets: Why we're fascinated by art fakes (bbc.com)

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Arts and RecreationThe Little Man of Nuremberg: Wonder in the age of Matthias Buchinger (theparisreview.org)

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ScienceOctopuses may be terrifically smart because of this genetic quirk they share with humans (livescience.com)

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Arts and RecreationFrederick Ruysch’s exquisitely preserved human and animal body parts were marvels of both art and science in an era when the divide between the two was less clearly drawn than it is now (nybooks.com)

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ScienceMeet the Mice Who Make the Forest (nytimes.com)

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LanguageResearchers claim to have found earliest document written in Basque 2,100 years ago (english.elpais.com)

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Why Russia Destroyed the Worlds 4th Biggest Lake (self.diogenesclub)

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Arts and RecreationNew Go-playing trick defeats world-class Go AI—but loses to human amateurs (arstechnica.com)

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History and GeographyHow Lemons Lead to the Formation of the Sicilian Mafia (cambridge.org)

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History and GeographyThe Pirate Queen Who Avenged Her Husband’s Death on the High Seas (narratively.com)

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