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The talents and personality of the most prolific mathematician in history
The role of anti-blackness in the Arab slave trades
The long-run decline of violence in Europe, and why poverty is not responsible for violent crime
The historical poverty of the Indian masses, origins of the great divergence, and why East Asian growth miracle but not South Asian
The American incarceration rate explained
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This is the first half of the third part (I, II) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand strategy game, easily one of the most popular historical games on the market today and thus tremendously influential in both the popular history and gaming spaces. Over the … Continue reading Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIa: Focusing on Politics →
Is she the canary in the coal mine
Frontier models can now produce novel historical knowledge, but in a really weird way
thought some folks here may be interested in this … I just finished up a book on human evolution, which covers thirty-some hominin species from Sahelanthropus to sapiens. It covers what we know about each of them, what we don’t know, and what the experts are arguing over (and there is a lot of argument … Continue reading A Shameless Plug: My “human evolution” book →
