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Sandinista! To Our Friends, 20 Years Later : In Memory of Timur Kacharava, Russian Anti-Fascist Twenty years ago, on November 13, 2005, Timur Kacharava, an anti-fascist and a hardcore musician,...
17th Nov 2025
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Sandinista! To Our Friends, 20 Years Later : In Memory of Timur Kacharava, Russian Anti-Fascist

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17th Nov 2025
Twenty years ago, on November 13, 2005, Timur Kacharava, an anti-fascist and a hardcore musician, was murdered in a barbaric attack by neo-Nazis in the very center of St. Petersburg, Russia. Although for us, his death was not only a huge personal loss, but also an event that...
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Two Views, Both Not Quite Photographs From a 1902 postcard, a profile view of the Brooklyn Bridge (with bonus Fulton ferry) and a smaller...
1st Jun 2026
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Two Views, Both Not Quite Photographs

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1st Jun 2026
From a 1902 postcard, a profile view of the Brooklyn Bridge (with bonus Fulton ferry) and a smaller view of the walkway. If you know the bridge well, as I do, the promenade view is actually quite accurate, but I suspect it’s a little bit difficult to parse for people who haven’t...
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China’s Almost-War With Taiwan and the US Just as the Cold War was beginning, China, Taiwan and the United States found themselves tangled in...
2nd Dec 2025
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China’s Almost-War With Taiwan and the US

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2nd Dec 2025
Just as the Cold War was beginning, China, Taiwan and the United States found themselves tangled in a military situation which threatened to go hot. When the Second World War ended in 1945, China was still divided. For years a civil war had raged between the Nationalist...
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Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something...
4th Jul 2025
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Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship

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4th Jul 2025
As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something about the United States, this time a brief discussion of the nature of civil-military relations in the United States. Civil-military relations (typically shortened to ‘civ-mil’ or...
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The most lied-about place on earth Depth against slogans: what we saw in 6 weeks driving through Xinjiang
24th Aug 2026
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The most lied-about place on earth

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24th Aug 2026
Depth against slogans: what we saw in 6 weeks driving through Xinjiang
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2026 CHM Awards Ceremony CHM honored five new Fellows and the inaugural Silicon Valley Laureate at a gala celebration that...
1st May 2026
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2026 CHM Awards Ceremony

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1st May 2026
CHM honored five new Fellows and the inaugural Silicon Valley Laureate at a gala celebration that highlighted the teamwork and collaboration behind lasting success. The post 2026 CHM Awards Ceremony appeared first on CHM.
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Not Getting It Together. As shown by the Iran crisis.
1st Apr 2026
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Not Getting It Together.

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1st Apr 2026
As shown by the Iran crisis.
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‘America, América’ by Greg Grandin review ‘America, América’ by Greg Grandin review JamesHoare Mon, 06/02/2025 - 09:07
2nd Jun 2025
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‘America, América’ by Greg Grandin review

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2nd Jun 2025
‘America, América’ by Greg Grandin review JamesHoare Mon, 06/02/2025 - 09:07
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Don't Expect Respect. All we have left now is money.
1st Jul 2026
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Don't Expect Respect.

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1st Jul 2026
All we have left now is money.
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Who Was the Real Aspasia? The “Prostitute” Who May Have Taught Socrates
2nd Sep 2026
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Who Was the Real Aspasia?

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2nd Sep 2026
The “Prostitute” Who May Have Taught Socrates
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Six Days on Luna One (1965) Part 2 To continue with this fantastic space art book from 1965. Above is the 1963 Hungarian cover. I have...
5th Sep 2026
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Six Days on Luna One (1965) Part 2

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5th Sep 2026
To continue with this fantastic space art book from 1965. Above is the 1963 Hungarian cover. I have not been able to find the book yet. There is so much here I run out of comments. This is a translation into Russian of a 1963 Czech book. The 1963 book's title was:  Šest dnů na...
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Another Of My Essays In French. "C’est quoi cette « guerre » dont vous parlez ?"
4th May 2025
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Another Of My Essays In French.

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4th May 2025
"C’est quoi cette « guerre » dont vous parlez ?"
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Weekend Roundup Classics Gifts!
1st Dec 2024
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Weekend Roundup

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1st Dec 2024
Classics Gifts!
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‘Sacred Britannia’ by Miranda Aldhouse-Green ‘Sacred Britannia’ by Miranda Aldhouse-Green H T Fri, 11/02/2018 - 00:00
2nd Nov 2018
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‘Sacred Britannia’ by Miranda Aldhouse-Green

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2nd Nov 2018
‘Sacred Britannia’ by Miranda Aldhouse-Green H T Fri, 11/02/2018 - 00:00
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Summary of changes for February 2026 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Mar 2026
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Summary of changes for February 2026

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1st Mar 2026
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February. Wiki, updated knots with a figure-eight follow-through knot, also, Pino has a new headsail! Pavol, created a volume control tool. Adelie, made it so images are drawn...
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Universities as factories I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
4th May 2024
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Universities as factories

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4th May 2024
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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The Tears of Strangers are only water On the limits of empathy
25th Oct 2024
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The Tears of Strangers are only water

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25th Oct 2024
On the limits of empathy
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The Seven Deadly Sins Under Death’s Dominion by James Ensor, 1904 “…the eternal black night, death under the colourless earth” – James Ensor on his dread of death    ...
1st Feb 2025
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The Seven Deadly Sins Under Death’s Dominion by James Ensor, 1904

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1st Feb 2025
“…the eternal black night, death under the colourless earth” – James Ensor on his dread of death     Belgian painter and printmaker James Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) etched his Seven Deadly Sins in 1904. To hammer home the message of human foolishness, malice and the...
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Child of the Sun National Historic Landmark, Lakeland FL Frank Lloyd Wright may be the most famous American architect, and one of his significant works is...
3rd Feb 2026
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Child of the Sun National Historic Landmark, Lakeland FL

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3rd Feb 2026
Frank Lloyd Wright may be the most famous American architect, and one of his significant works is located in Florida. Frank Lloyd Wright was born in a rural area of Wisconsin in 1867. He grew up interested in art and design, decided upon a career in architecture, and after...
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What did Xi, Modi and Putin really discuss in Tianjin? Here are Xi Jinping’s concluding words to the speech he just gave in front of Narendra Modi,...
4th Sep 2025
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What did Xi, Modi and Putin really discuss in Tianjin?

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4th Sep 2025
Here are Xi Jinping’s concluding words to the speech he just gave in front of Narendra Modi, Vladimir Putin and some 24 other heads of states representing almost half the world’s population: "Where will prevails, no boundary holds" (basically the Chinese version of “when there’s...
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Dorothy Pulis Lathrop’s Illustrations For Walter de la Mare’s The Three Mulla-Mulgars “Long long is Time, though books be brief: Adventures strange ay, past belief…” – Walter de la Mare,...
1st May 2025
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Dorothy Pulis Lathrop’s Illustrations For Walter de la Mare’s The Three Mulla-Mulgars

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1st May 2025
“Long long is Time, though books be brief: Adventures strange ay, past belief…” – Walter de la Mare, The Three Mulla-Mulgars illustrated by Dorothy Pulis Lathrop   Soon after Dorothy Pulis Lathrop (April 16, 1891–December 30, 1980) was hired to illustrate a book of experimental...
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Unseen Friends: Rare Behind-the-Scenes Photos from the Iconic Sitcom In the mid-1990s, television audiences were introduced to a group of six friends whose daily lives...
1st Nov 2025
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Unseen Friends: Rare Behind-the-Scenes Photos from the Iconic Sitcom

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1st Nov 2025
In the mid-1990s, television audiences were introduced to a group of six friends whose daily lives in Manhattan would soon redefine the meaning of modern friendship. Friends, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994, and instantly captured...
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Caroline Sur La Lune (Caroline on the Moon) 1965 A nice treat today as Caroline goes to the Moon! This was a popular French fictional series but I...
4th Apr 2025
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Caroline Sur La Lune (Caroline on the Moon) 1965

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4th Apr 2025
A nice treat today as Caroline goes to the Moon! This was a popular French fictional series but I had not been able to find the one about the Moon trip until recently. The illustrations are beautiful and full color. Well worth examining each one for its details. Pierre Probst...
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Spacewalks: Poems for the Moon Age (1971) So to keep up with my strange postings, today is strange (bad?) space poetry. I like the drawings...
5th Dec 2025
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Spacewalks: Poems for the Moon Age (1971)

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5th Dec 2025
So to keep up with my strange postings, today is strange (bad?) space poetry. I like the drawings that are VERY late 60s with spacecraft and other images mixed together. I also like his approach to using our Space Race as an inspiration to think about what people had done and...
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Summary of changes for May 2026 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
31st May 2026
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Summary of changes for May 2026

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31st May 2026
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May. Wiki, documented the installation of Pino's water tank, added thermostat to engine care, and updated woodstove installation. Grimgrains, added a solar-roasted kinako recipe. Uxn,...
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The first Africanists: Intellectual Collaboration and the Origins of African Studies in the late... The first Africanists (specialists who study African languages, societies, and history) were not...
5th Apr 2026
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The first Africanists: Intellectual Collaboration and the Origins of African Studies in the late 19th to early 20th century.

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5th Apr 2026
The first Africanists (specialists who study African languages, societies, and history) were not colonial researchers, as is often assumed, but African intellectuals who were actively engaged in the production of knowledge about their own societies.
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days This is the continuation – the first of several – of the fourth part of our series looking at the...
5th Sep 2025
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days

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5th Sep 2025
This is the continuation – the first of several – of the fourth part of our series looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers – a majority of all of the humans who have ever lived. Last time we discussed the survival requirements (in food and textiles) of a peasant...
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The Phantom of Polarisation Do people actually disagree that much?
1st Nov 2024
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The Phantom of Polarisation

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1st Nov 2024
Do people actually disagree that much?
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Why one Chinese county spent 76 years planting trees The story of Youyu offers a window into what the CPC calls a "correct view on governance...
3rd Jul 2026
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Why one Chinese county spent 76 years planting trees

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3rd Jul 2026
The story of Youyu offers a window into what the CPC calls a "correct view on governance performance."
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911) The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
2nd Dec 2024
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)

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2nd Dec 2024
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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The Border is an Open Wound : A Tree Sit in Lochiel, Arizona Halts Border Wall Construction At the border with Mexico in Arizona, for the first time in history, a tree sit is blocking the...
12th Aug 2026
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The Border is an Open Wound : A Tree Sit in Lochiel, Arizona Halts Border Wall Construction

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12th Aug 2026
At the border with Mexico in Arizona, for the first time in history, a tree sit is blocking the construction of the border wall that Trump promised his voters. This wall is cutting a ragged wound across the precious and diverse ecosystems that defy the myth that the border...
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Ukraine, Lenin and Sultan-Galiev Re-reading Richard Pipes’ "The Formation of the Soviet Union"
6th Aug 2026
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Ukraine, Lenin and Sultan-Galiev

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6th Aug 2026
Re-reading Richard Pipes’ "The Formation of the Soviet Union"
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The Tsarist Mindset On the 'anti-Semitism national security emergency'
1st May 2026
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The Tsarist Mindset

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1st May 2026
On the 'anti-Semitism national security emergency'
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Buster Brown Goes to Mars (1958) This comic is a promotional comic from Buster Brown shoes. If you went into a shoe store and tried...
3rd Jul 2026
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Buster Brown Goes to Mars (1958)

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3rd Jul 2026
This comic is a promotional comic from Buster Brown shoes. If you went into a shoe store and tried on Buster Brown shoes you would get a comic book with the name of the store stamped/printed on it. Buster Brown  (and his dog Tag) were a feature of 1950s and 1960s shoe store. In...
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Summary of changes for February 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Mar 2025
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Summary of changes for February 2025

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1st Mar 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added Dinghy gelcoat, Week 10, Week 11, and Week 12 of the Victoria to Sitka logbook. Updated solar with new pictures and corrected information...
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On Selling Your Website — It's OK to Be a Lifestyle Business Instead of the latest installment of my serialized Web 2.0 memoir, this week I want to talk about...
1st May 2024
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On Selling Your Website — It's OK to Be a Lifestyle Business

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1st May 2024
Instead of the latest installment of my serialized Web 2.0 memoir, this week I want to talk about the experience of selling a tech blogging business — and the after-life this can have, which sometimes (maybe most of the time?) can be more hell than heaven. I found out this week...
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How a Chinese MAGA hat maker got caught in Trump's trade war Love Trump? Buy a hat. Hate him? Still buy a hat. But "Brother Wang" neither loves nor hates.
27th May 2025
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How a Chinese MAGA hat maker got caught in Trump's trade war

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27th May 2025
Love Trump? Buy a hat. Hate him? Still buy a hat. But "Brother Wang" neither loves nor hates.
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Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023 Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
1st Sep 2023
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Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023

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1st Sep 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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Collections: On the Declaration of Independence Hello again all. It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to...
4th Jul 2026
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Collections: On the Declaration of Independence

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4th Jul 2026
Hello again all. It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States. This is going to be a bit more of an open musing than an argument as compared to previous years (2021, 2022, 2023, … Continue...
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Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period. Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
11th Jun 2024
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Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.

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11th Jun 2024
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit!  A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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Pensioners for war Many years ago when I lived in Belgrade, just before the beginning of the “Yugoslav Wars of...
5th Jul 2025
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Pensioners for war

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5th Jul 2025
Many years ago when I lived in Belgrade, just before the beginning of the “Yugoslav Wars of Succession”, I noticed an interesting phenomenon.
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic? Which Playwright did it better?
1st Jul 2024
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?

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1st Jul 2024
Which Playwright did it better?
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Twitter in 2007: The Open Platform That Wasn't The first wave of people to join Twitter was in March 2007, when it became the trendy app at the...
25th May 2023
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Twitter in 2007: The Open Platform That Wasn't

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25th May 2023
The first wave of people to join Twitter was in March 2007, when it became the trendy app at the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. I hadn’t gone to SXSW that year, but I arrived in San Francisco the month after for Web 2.0 Expo. I don’t recall who told me about Twitter (it...
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Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
1st Jan 2023
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Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century

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1st Jan 2023
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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The West is Weak Where it Matters ... ...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
4th Jan 2023
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The West is Weak Where it Matters ...

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4th Jan 2023
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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Destruction and despair A review of “A Sentimental Journey 1917-1922” by Viktor Shklovsky
a week ago
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Destruction and despair

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a week ago
A review of “A Sentimental Journey 1917-1922” by Viktor Shklovsky
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Why they stopped building wooden stupas On survivorship bias in history
14th May 2026
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Why they stopped building wooden stupas

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14th May 2026
On survivorship bias in history
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Did Israel's War Kill Zionism? I recently stumbled upon an analysis of the Iran-Israel war that I found to be one of the most...
1st Jul 2025
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Did Israel's War Kill Zionism?

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1st Jul 2025
I recently stumbled upon an analysis of the Iran-Israel war that I found to be one of the most thought-provoking I’d heard to date.
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I Am a Stranger in This Country: An Outsider Photographs Britain and Ireland’s Travellers In I Am a Stranger in This Country Berlin-based photograph Frederik Rüegger shows us pictures from...
1st Aug 2025
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I Am a Stranger in This Country: An Outsider Photographs Britain and Ireland’s Travellers

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1st Aug 2025
In I Am a Stranger in This Country Berlin-based photograph Frederik Rüegger shows us pictures from the two years he spent visiting the Roma and Traveller communities in Britain and Ireland. The book’s title is a nod to his reflects his status as a foreigner abroad and the...
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The Euthyphro problem 'Is that which is moral moral because God commands it?, or does God command that which is moral...
1st Oct 2025
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The Euthyphro problem

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1st Oct 2025
'Is that which is moral moral because God commands it?, or does God command that which is moral because it is moral?'
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The Assassination of Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Civil rights icon Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, on a motel...
1st Apr 2025
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The Assassination of Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr

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1st Apr 2025
Civil rights icon Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, on a motel balcony in Memphis. One of the earliest successes of the civil rights movement was a boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.  In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her...
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“To the Finland Station” Trump as a tool of history
7th Jan 2025
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“To the Finland Station”

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7th Jan 2025
Trump as a tool of history
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A descriptive theory of seasons in the Mid-Atlantic [ I started thinking about this about twenty years ago, and then writing it down in 2019, but it...
8th Feb 2025
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A descriptive theory of seasons in the Mid-Atlantic

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8th Feb 2025
[ I started thinking about this about twenty years ago, and then writing it down in 2019, but it seems to be obsolete. I am publishing it anyway. ] The canonical division of the year into seasons in the northern temperate zone goes something like this: Spring: March 21 – June...
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Futarchy For Fundraising The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of...
2nd Apr 2025
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Futarchy For Fundraising

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2nd Apr 2025
The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations (quotes below), by Donald Chew, persuaded me that for-profit-firm capitalism has varied quite a lot over space and time, and that the U.S.
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Charming Carhop Girls: Photos from When Roller Skates and Drive-Ins Defined American Cool Long before the era of fast-food drive-throughs, there was a time when meals were served on...
17th Oct 2025
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Charming Carhop Girls: Photos from When Roller Skates and Drive-Ins Defined American Cool

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17th Oct 2025
Long before the era of fast-food drive-throughs, there was a time when meals were served on wheels—literally. The carhop became a symbol of mid-century Americana, blending convenience, charm, and a touch of showmanship. These waiters and waitresses delivered burgers, fries, and...
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Introducing PSPMAN A FLAC and MP3 Player for the Sony PSP by ObsoleteSony
9th Sep 2026
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Introducing PSPMAN

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9th Sep 2026
A FLAC and MP3 Player for the Sony PSP by ObsoleteSony
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Wool Aliens of the British Empire Wool Aliens of the British Empire JamesHoare Tue, 04/01/2025 - 09:07
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Wool Aliens of the British Empire

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Wool Aliens of the British Empire JamesHoare Tue, 04/01/2025 - 09:07
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ReadWriteWeb on Wayback Machine vs. Old Screenshots While preparing for the publication of my “Web 2.0 memoir” here on Cybercultural, I was fortunate to...
4th Oct 2023
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ReadWriteWeb on Wayback Machine vs. Old Screenshots

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4th Oct 2023
While preparing for the publication of my “Web 2.0 memoir” here on Cybercultural, I was fortunate to discover a screenshot of ReadWriteWeb from 24 September 2005 (US). I was thrilled to come across this, for several reasons: It’s a rare screenshot of what RWW looked like at that...
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
12th Nov 2023
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work

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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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Nature in Greek Myth Magical and Medicinal
1st Mar 2024
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Nature in Greek Myth

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Magical and Medicinal
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My favourite etymologies: the dog days of summer Let’s get canicular
7th Sep 2026
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My favourite etymologies: the dog days of summer

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Let’s get canicular
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On the Making of the Modern State Classical Wisdom Litterae: Government
2nd Jul 2025
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On the Making of the Modern State

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Classical Wisdom Litterae: Government
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Man the Hunter Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
19th Nov 2023
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Man the Hunter

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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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Paradise Lost: How Moreover Won & Lost the Real-Time Web The late 1990s was the middle of the Dot Com boom. Looking back, we tend to associate this period of...
17th Mar 2015
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Paradise Lost: How Moreover Won & Lost the Real-Time Web

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17th Mar 2015
The late 1990s was the middle of the Dot Com boom. Looking back, we tend to associate this period of intense growth with e-commerce startups. During 1998, eBay went public, Paypal was founded, Amazon.com was spending big to “expand its reach” and Pets.com launched. Also started...
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Res Obscura is now on Substack Three years late, but historians are always late
13th Apr 2023
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Res Obscura is now on Substack

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Three years late, but historians are always late
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War Is Complicated. And not just the fighting bit.
3rd May 2023
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War Is Complicated.

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And not just the fighting bit.
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Who Was Julian? Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Who Was Julian?

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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Meeting My Hero, Tim Berners-Lee, at W3C Headquarters In June 2009, I interviewed the man who had made my entire career possible: Tim Berners-Lee. Another...
3rd Jul 2024
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Meeting My Hero, Tim Berners-Lee, at W3C Headquarters

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3rd Jul 2024
In June 2009, I interviewed the man who had made my entire career possible: Tim Berners-Lee. Another of my passion projects as a tech reporter was the Semantic Web (it was always capitalized at the time). In May I’d done a presentation to a Wellington tech gathering about web...
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Working offgrid efficiently Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years. For the first 3 years we tested the...
13th Oct 2020
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Working offgrid efficiently

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Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years. For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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The spread of British decline porn Why do Americans have such a bad image of our perfectly run country?
2nd Dec 2025
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The spread of British decline porn

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Why do Americans have such a bad image of our perfectly run country?
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goji no chaimu After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
1st Mar 2019
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goji no chaimu

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1st Mar 2019
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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Summary of changes for February Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
28th Feb 2021
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Summary of changes for February

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28th Feb 2021
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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Why I love etymologies Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
30th Apr 2024
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Why I love etymologies

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Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
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Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
3rd Dec 2024
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Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple

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The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for... Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
6th Nov 2024
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History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for Donald Trump’s Return to Power

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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here. The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again We...
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Are We Doing Enough To Archive Digital Culture? Have you ever had any of these issues lately while trying to access content? You wrote a blog in the...
14th Aug 2019
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Are We Doing Enough To Archive Digital Culture?

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14th Aug 2019
Have you ever had any of these issues lately while trying to access content? You wrote a blog in the early to late 2000s, but it’s long since gone (or changed irrevocably, in my case). Can you still experience that blog in all its noughties HTML glory, via the Wayback Machine?...
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Historic links between the Maghreb and West Africa: On the Sanusiyya and anti-colonialism. The modern separation of Africa into a “Mediterranean” North and a “Sub-Saharan” South had little...
22nd Jun 2025
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Historic links between the Maghreb and West Africa: On the Sanusiyya and anti-colonialism.

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The modern separation of Africa into a “Mediterranean” North and a “Sub-Saharan” South had little basis in the historical geographies and political relationships of the pre-colonial period.
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Culture Drift Predicts Decadence Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
6th Oct 2024
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Culture Drift Predicts Decadence

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Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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Las Vegas and the Microsoft MIX Conference 2007 Stranger in a strange land; me at The Venetian, 28 April, 2007. After the Web 2.0 Expo, it was off...
5th Mar 2024
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Las Vegas and the Microsoft MIX Conference 2007

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5th Mar 2024
Stranger in a strange land; me at The Venetian, 28 April, 2007. After the Web 2.0 Expo, it was off to Las Vegas for Microsoft’s MIX conference, an event to promote the company’s web technologies. My travel, including accommodations at the Venetian on the Strip, was being paid for...
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**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
2nd Sep 2023
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**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history

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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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How Not to Run an Airline: The 2024 Saurya Airlines CRJ-200 crash
1st Aug 2025
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How Not to Run an Airline: The 2024 Saurya Airlines CRJ-200 crash

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1st Aug 2025
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Summary of changes for April 2026 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Apr 2026
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Summary of changes for April 2026

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1st Apr 2026
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April. Wiki, documented the replacement of Pino's headstay. Rabbit Waves, added a new page about Ship Lights. Rejoice, a bestiary of multiset combinators. Gaude, but.. in Peano's...
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After "Victory." How much is enough?
4th Jun 2025
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After "Victory."

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4th Jun 2025
How much is enough?
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What the Internet Was Like in 2008 The iPhone 3G and G1 (first Android device); October 2008. The internet in 2008 was defined by the...
2nd Aug 2024
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What the Internet Was Like in 2008

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2nd Aug 2024
The iPhone 3G and G1 (first Android device); October 2008. The internet in 2008 was defined by the emergence of smartphone apps, with the Apple App Store launched in July (along with a second-generation iPhone) and the Android Market following in September. But equally, there was...
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1995: The Birth of JavaScript Netscape Navigator 2, which featured the first version of JavaScript; image via...
22nd Dec 2020
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1995: The Birth of JavaScript

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22nd Dec 2020
Netscape Navigator 2, which featured the first version of JavaScript; image via Wikimedia. JavaScript was invented in a two-week flurry in May 1995 by Brendan Eich, at the time a newly hired developer at browser company Netscape. The project was initiated by Netscape because of a...
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Hong Kong Nights 1974-1989 Greg Girard photographed Hong Kong at night between 1974 and 1989. The Canadian photographer’s...
1st Jun 2026
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Hong Kong Nights 1974-1989

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1st Jun 2026
Greg Girard photographed Hong Kong at night between 1974 and 1989. The Canadian photographer’s pictures show us a city full of promise alive after dark, much as Gerry Cranham did with his night shots. He returned to the city many times after his first visit as a teenager in 1974....
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Book Update Plus My Thoughts on ChatGPT and Generative AI This month I finished the first draft of my “Web 2.0 memoir,” which weighed in at 153,000 words....
23rd Jun 2023
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Book Update Plus My Thoughts on ChatGPT and Generative AI

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23rd Jun 2023
This month I finished the first draft of my “Web 2.0 memoir,” which weighed in at 153,000 words. I’ve been working on this book for the past eight months; every weekday, before breakfast in the early morning. My plan is still to serialize the book here on Cybercultural, which I’m...
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The Trung Sisters Rebellion The Trung sisters led a rebellion in Vietnam in the first century CE and became symbols of national...
6th Jan 2026
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The Trung Sisters Rebellion

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6th Jan 2026
The Trung sisters led a rebellion in Vietnam in the first century CE and became symbols of national unity. In 111 BCE, an army from China invaded the area to their south that is now known as northern Vietnam and conquered it. As was their usual routine, they appointed some of the...
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Cloud Gate, Chicago’s “Bean” This futuristic sculpture in Millennium Park has become an icon of Chicago. In 1997, the city of...
4th Feb 2025
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Cloud Gate, Chicago’s “Bean”

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4th Feb 2025
This futuristic sculpture in Millennium Park has become an icon of Chicago. In 1997, the city of Chicago was making plans for a patch of land near Grant Park on the shore of Lake Michigan that had previously been a parking lot and a railroad yard. At first, there was talk of...
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The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962) As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book...
17th Jan 2025
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The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962)

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17th Jan 2025
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book from Cities Service gasoline. It probably was a give-away with purchase. It reflects the early 60s where the Mercury launches had taken place and we were looking ahead to the future....
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Republicans have a big midterm cash advantage Democrats have alienated billionaires without winning back the working class.
1st Sep 2026
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Republicans have a big midterm cash advantage

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1st Sep 2026
Democrats have alienated billionaires without winning back the working class.
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The End Is Not the End Seneca on Death, Dignity, and Inner Freedom
2nd Sep 2025
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The End Is Not the End

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Seneca on Death, Dignity, and Inner Freedom
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Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IIIa: An Archaic Phalanx? This is the third part of our four-part series (I, II) discussing the debates surrounding ancient...
5th Dec 2025
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Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IIIa: An Archaic Phalanx?

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5th Dec 2025
This is the third part of our four-part series (I, II) discussing the debates surrounding ancient Greek hoplites and the formation in which they (mostly?) fought, the phalanx. Last week, we looked at how the equipment which defined the hoplite – hoplite (ὁπλίτης), after all,...
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The Golden Age of Microblogging, With Soup.io and Tumblr Microblogging was a trend that emerged in the second half of the 2000s, after long-form weblogs had...
22nd Mar 2023
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The Golden Age of Microblogging, With Soup.io and Tumblr

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22nd Mar 2023
Microblogging was a trend that emerged in the second half of the 2000s, after long-form weblogs had become established in the culture. Microblogging is basically just short-form blogging and, as I’ll lay out in this post, its heyday was in the 2007-11 period. But microblogging is...
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Progress Update: New article coming soon, and a teaser
18th Jul 2026
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Progress Update: New article coming soon, and a teaser

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18th Jul 2026
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25 medieval manuscripts you can look at online right now They're all digital, baby!
4th Mar 2026
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25 medieval manuscripts you can look at online right now

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4th Mar 2026
They're all digital, baby!
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America’s most beautiful city Cavalier Charleston
5th Nov 2025
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America’s most beautiful city

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5th Nov 2025
Cavalier Charleston
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Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games) Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
2nd Feb 2024
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Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)

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2nd Feb 2024
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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Vintage Color Photos Capture New York City Streets and Daily Life in 1980 New York City in 1980 had a look that can be surprisingly difficult to picture today. The buildings...
2 weeks ago
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Vintage Color Photos Capture New York City Streets and Daily Life in 1980

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New York City in 1980 had a look that can be surprisingly difficult to picture today. The buildings are familiar, the streets are recognizable, and the crowds move with the same hurried energy, yet the details belong unmistakably to another time. Cars from another generation line...
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The "New" Ancient City Discovering Kavala...
2nd May 2024
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The "New" Ancient City

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2nd May 2024
Discovering Kavala...
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Weekly Wisdom Quiz Plato, Aristotle, and Euripides
2nd Mar 2025
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Weekly Wisdom Quiz

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2nd Mar 2025
Plato, Aristotle, and Euripides
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The break-down of the representative system and the road to dictatorship (on the example of Serbia)
17th Mar 2025
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The break-down of the representative system and the road to dictatorship

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17th Mar 2025
(on the example of Serbia)
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People On The Liberty Island Ferry in 1976 In 1976, Bill Antin was riding the Liberty Island ferry that connects Manhattan to Liberty Island in...
1st Sep 2025
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People On The Liberty Island Ferry in 1976

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1st Sep 2025
In 1976, Bill Antin was riding the Liberty Island ferry that connects Manhattan to Liberty Island in New York City. Were you? If this is you or someone you recognise in these pictures, please get in touch. We’d love to hear from you. For the rest of us, let’s imagine the stories...
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The curious case of the missing period When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
20th Feb 2024
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The curious case of the missing period

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20th Feb 2024
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor 2.0 Looks to the Sea Marine science and the blue economy are emerging as a new area of China-Pakistan cooperation,...
a week ago
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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor 2.0 Looks to the Sea

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Marine science and the blue economy are emerging as a new area of China-Pakistan cooperation, linking Gwadar with research, coastal industries and environmental management
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The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously...
5th Jan 2025
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The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa

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5th Jan 2025
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously demonstrated by the golden pilgrimage of Mali's Mansa Musa in 1324, Islam had only arrived in the region at the close of the 1st millennium.
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1995: From Batman Forever’s cinematic design to HTML tables Batman Forever website, launched May 1995. If 1994 was when the Web became a publishing medium, then...
3rd Mar 2026
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1995: From Batman Forever’s cinematic design to HTML tables

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3rd Mar 2026
Batman Forever website, launched May 1995. If 1994 was when the Web became a publishing medium, then 1995 was when the Web truly marked itself as a unique expressive medium. The Web became a place — a destination — rather than a mere repository for documents. In previous posts,...
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century. Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
1st Nov 2024
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.

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1st Nov 2024
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024! Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
7th Sep 2024
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024!

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7th Sep 2024
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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Why Sheep Need Pigs in Sheepdog’s Clothing Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and...
2nd Aug 2026
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Why Sheep Need Pigs in Sheepdog’s Clothing

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2nd Aug 2026
Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas.
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
5th Jul 2024
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism

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5th Jul 2024
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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The Route of History Geology and empire collide on the Danube
1st Feb 2026
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The Route of History

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1st Feb 2026
Geology and empire collide on the Danube
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Summary of changes for January 2026 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
31st Jan 2026
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Summary of changes for January 2026

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31st Jan 2026
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January. Uxn, we released a new SDL2 emulator called uxn2 to replace the ol' uxnemu! Wiki, updated moisture prevention underliner, chainplates(with new photos and measurements), and...
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A Closer Look at Australopithecus Deyiremeda The discovery of Australopithecus deyiremeda led to some very surprising results. Australopithecus...
4th Aug 2026
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A Closer Look at Australopithecus Deyiremeda

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4th Aug 2026
The discovery of Australopithecus deyiremeda led to some very surprising results. Australopithecus deyiremeda, from Wiki Commons In 2009, researcher Yohanne Haille-Selassie, working at a place called Burtele in the Waranso-Mille region of Ethiopia (not far from where Lucy had...
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Venezuela killed the U.S. In the history of the US’s relation with Latin America, what just happened in Venezuela is hardly...
6th Jan 2026
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Venezuela killed the U.S.

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6th Jan 2026
In the history of the US’s relation with Latin America, what just happened in Venezuela is hardly unique: in the slightly less than a hundred years from 1898 to 1994, the U.S.
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Where parents make a difference Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
20th Mar 2024
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Where parents make a difference

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20th Mar 2024
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Acids to Ashes: The crash of Pan Am flight 160
28th Mar 2025
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Acids to Ashes: The crash of Pan Am flight 160

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The end of the great order under the Heaven A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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The end of the great order under the Heaven

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A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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When few do great harm Power laws in criminal behavior
23rd Apr 2023
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When few do great harm

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Power laws in criminal behavior
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Beyond The Appearances. The joys of an Ideal world.
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Beyond The Appearances.

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The joys of an Ideal world.
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Constructing Missing Crime Tables Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
17th Jan 2023
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Constructing Missing Crime Tables

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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Ten Commandments The lists of commandments in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 are almost identical to each other,...
1st Jul 2025
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Everything You Need to Know About the Ten Commandments

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The lists of commandments in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 are almost identical to each other, diverging significantly only in the reasons they each give for keeping the Sabbath day. This list—often called the Decalogue—is what is popularly known as the Ten Commandments. However,...
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Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious? I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
30th Sep 2023
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Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?

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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Repression and Resistance in Russia : An Overview Across three decades, Russia has been at the forefront of the worldwide descent into...
9th Sep 2026
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Repression and Resistance in Russia : An Overview

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Across three decades, Russia has been at the forefront of the worldwide descent into authoritarianism. Vladimir Putin’s government has suppressed opposition in ways that aspiring autocrats like Donald Trump are still striving to emulate. Yet despite widespread repression, there...
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1993: Mosaic Launches and the Web Becomes Open Source Original NCSA Mosaic Version 1.0 web browser home page; via NCSA. On 14 January 1993, Marc...
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1993: Mosaic Launches and the Web Becomes Open Source

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Original NCSA Mosaic Version 1.0 web browser home page; via NCSA. On 14 January 1993, Marc Andreessen put a call out on the WWW-Talk mailing list for people to test a new WWW browser in development. It was initially “hypertext only,” he wrote, “but will soon have multimedia...
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The Assassination of Malcolm X Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
3rd Dec 2024
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The Assassination of Malcolm X

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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa. Africa's past carved in ivory
7th May 2023
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A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.

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Africa's past carved in ivory
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David Bowie’s 1999 Gaming Adventure and Virtual Album One of David Bowie's characters in the 1999 3D game, Omikron: The Nomad Soul. On May 12, 1999, a...
5th Aug 2025
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David Bowie’s 1999 Gaming Adventure and Virtual Album

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One of David Bowie's characters in the 1999 3D game, Omikron: The Nomad Soul. On May 12, 1999, a surprising announcement came over the wires. “Eidos Interactive, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of interactive entertainment, today announced a collaboration with...
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Summary of changes for April 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Apr 2023
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Summary of changes for April 2023

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1st Apr 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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From Dusk Til Dawn: 29 Found Photos Taken In Changing Light We grow accustomed to the Dark — When Light is put away — As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp To...
1st Jul 2025
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From Dusk Til Dawn: 29 Found Photos Taken In Changing Light

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We grow accustomed to the Dark — When Light is put away — As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp To witness her Good bye — Emily Dickinson  They say that the glow of the sky you see at night isn’t starlight but leftover light from the Big Bang. Light is ancient and magical. Away …...
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1996: JavaScript Annoyances and Meeting the DOM “Hi, I’m Brendan Eich, welcome to my homepage.” Via Wayback Machine. The Netscape Navigator 2.0...
5th Jan 2021
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1996: JavaScript Annoyances and Meeting the DOM

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“Hi, I’m Brendan Eich, welcome to my homepage.” Via Wayback Machine. The Netscape Navigator 2.0 browser was finally released in March 1996, almost a year after Brendan Eich joined Netscape with the express purpose of creating a scripting language for the web. He’d developed the...
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Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history. There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
3rd Nov 2024
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Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.

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There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
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Filter Bubbles and the RWW Real-Time Web Summit, June 2010 Me at our first NYC event, in June 2010. Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid. It was another late...
2nd Oct 2024
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Filter Bubbles and the RWW Real-Time Web Summit, June 2010

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Me at our first NYC event, in June 2010. Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid. It was another late arrival coming into New York — near midnight on Sunday, June 6 — but this time I had booked a hotel in Manhattan. It was a fifteen-minute walk from the Metropolitan Pavilion, our...
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But I don’t *want* to save liberal democracy UK News Report extra
2 weeks ago
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But I don’t *want* to save liberal democracy

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UK News Report extra
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When The Music's Over ... Turn out the lights.
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When The Music's Over ...

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Turn out the lights.
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Summary of changes for January 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Feb 2024
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Summary of changes for January 2024

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1st Feb 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner. Permacomputing, revamped the page. Flappy Bird,...
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Journey to the Sun (1961) The second promotional comic I wanted to share is Journey to the Sun. It is also from Boys’ and...
2nd May 2025
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Journey to the Sun (1961)

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The second promotional comic I wanted to share is Journey to the Sun. It is also from Boys’ and Girls’ March of Comics and the only other one I've found that is about space flight.  It was handed to customers of stores that sold Little Yankee Shoes.   Journey to the Sun is a...
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Acquisition Talks: Two Suitors Emerge for ReadWriteWeb 'Intro to RWW' slide from a March 2008 presentation. I hadn’t seriously thought of selling...
3rd Apr 2024
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Acquisition Talks: Two Suitors Emerge for ReadWriteWeb

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'Intro to RWW' slide from a March 2008 presentation. I hadn’t seriously thought of selling ReadWriteWeb before 2008, but I knew I needed help to expand the business. Early in the new year Sean Ammirati put me in touch with Bob Evans, a senior executive at CMP Technology, a media...
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
5th Feb 2023
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen

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a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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Books To Help Us Understand The World? Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
1st Nov 2023
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Books To Help Us Understand The World?

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Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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Insidious Truths: The crashes of Birgenair flight 301 and Aeroperú flight 603
30th Jun 2025
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Insidious Truths: The crashes of Birgenair flight 301 and Aeroperú flight 603

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30th Jun 2025
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Photos from my time in Iran, 2017 Travels through Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Persepolis, and Yazd
31st Mar 2026
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Photos from my time in Iran, 2017

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Travels through Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Persepolis, and Yazd
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Summary of changes for August Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
31st Aug 2022
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Summary of changes for August

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31st Aug 2022
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
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Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo Frontier models can now produce novel historical knowledge, but in a really weird way
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Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

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Frontier models can now produce novel historical knowledge, but in a really weird way
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‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review ‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review JamesHoare Mon, 11/03/2025 - 08:14
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‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review

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‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review JamesHoare Mon, 11/03/2025 - 08:14
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Summary of changes for April Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st May 2022
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Summary of changes for April

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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Was the world of the 1990s better than today’s? It is a fundamental question.
3rd Jan 2026
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Was the world of the 1990s better than today’s?

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It is a fundamental question.
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Best BigCo of 2008: Apple This post as it looked in 2008. Every year we do a review of the top Internet companies, to...
18th Dec 2008
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Best BigCo of 2008: Apple

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This post as it looked in 2008. Every year we do a review of the top Internet companies, to identify the ones we think had the biggest impact. Today we're announcing the Best BigCo of 2008 and next week we'll announce Best LittleCo and Most Promising Company — all selected by...
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Jonathan Chait [ Content warning: angry, contemptuous ranting that accomplishes nothing. ] I didn't really know who...
1st Dec 2024
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Jonathan Chait

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[ Content warning: angry, contemptuous ranting that accomplishes nothing. ] I didn't really know who Jonathan Chait was until last week when I unfortunately read this essay of his (from February 2016) on “Why Liberals Should Support a Trump Republican Nomination”. I've said a lot...
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions. At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was...
7th Dec 2025
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions.

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7th Dec 2025
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Salaga (Ghana), settled in Kete-Krachi (*Ghana) in 1896 and composed his...
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London at its Dickensian finest What a time to be alive (if you didn’t die from cholera)
3rd Sep 2025
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London at its Dickensian finest

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What a time to be alive (if you didn’t die from cholera)
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Sony and Meta Explained: The Future of PlayStation VR Sony is transferring hundreds of VR patents to Meta. The decision may reflect past lessons and a...
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Sony and Meta Explained: The Future of PlayStation VR

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Sony is transferring hundreds of VR patents to Meta. The decision may reflect past lessons and a changing approach to PlayStation hardware.
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A Narrow Gate The long history of the Khyber Pass, from the archives
2nd Aug 2026
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A Narrow Gate

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The long history of the Khyber Pass, from the archives
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It Gets Worse. This time, there will be consequences.
6th Aug 2025
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It Gets Worse.

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This time, there will be consequences.
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Should We Be Skeptics? Is it good to question everything?
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Should We Be Skeptics?

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1st Apr 2024
Is it good to question everything?
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Passing the Buck: The story of the 2022 Wings Over Dallas air show collision
28th Feb 2025
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Passing the Buck: The story of the 2022 Wings Over Dallas air show collision

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The Making of The Conversation – An Interview with Francis Ford Coppola, 1974 In 1966, Francis Ford Coppola was working as a scriptwriter when he talked with fellow American...
1st Mar 2025
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The Making of The Conversation – An Interview with Francis Ford Coppola, 1974

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1st Mar 2025
In 1966, Francis Ford Coppola was working as a scriptwriter when he talked with fellow American director Irvin Kershner (born Isadore Kershner (April 29, 1923 – November 27, 2010)) about spy movies. The time was ripe with espionage plots. The James Bond films were hugely popular...
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Summary of changes for March 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Apr 2024
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Summary of changes for March 2024

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1st Apr 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration. Uxn, added 2 new commands...
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WW1’s Togoland Campaign Some of the first shots in World War One were fired not in France but in Africa.. The Khra River...
1st Sep 2026
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WW1’s Togoland Campaign

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1st Sep 2026
Some of the first shots in World War One were fired not in France but in Africa.. The Khra River Bridge in Togoland, photo from Wiki Commons. In the later half of the 19th century, Germany and Great Britain became global rivals. The British already had an empire which stretched...
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15 Medieval Phrases That Prove Old English Slang Was Funnier and Grosser Than Ours Language is alive. It changes and evolves with the cultures that use it, reflecting their values and...
1st Dec 2025
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15 Medieval Phrases That Prove Old English Slang Was Funnier and Grosser Than Ours

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1st Dec 2025
Language is alive. It changes and evolves with the cultures that use it, reflecting their values and unique aspects of daily life. Considering how the slang of younger generations can seem indecipherable to older folks, it’s no surprise that the English spoken in Medieval times...
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Do you want to be a synonym? I had a dinner with a friend tonight and we spoke of how the new era which has just begun makes lots...
2nd Apr 2025
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Do you want to be a synonym?

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2nd Apr 2025
I had a dinner with a friend tonight and we spoke of how the new era which has just begun makes lots of our knowledge, or the ways of thinking, about international relations, economic policies, poverty and wealth etc.
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Saturday discussion post
1st Aug 2026
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Saturday discussion post

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The Most Dangerous Line: Behind the Hawker stall test crashes
18th Feb 2026
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The Most Dangerous Line: Behind the Hawker stall test crashes

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18th Feb 2026
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Summary of changes for November Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Dec 2021
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Summary of changes for November

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1st Dec 2021
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Donsol, designed a donsol turnip. Uxn, wrote a file browser...
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What the Internet Was Like in 2001 Apple iTunes, the Rip Mix Burn advert, 2001; via YouTube (video embedded below). The year 2001 began...
5th Nov 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 2001

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5th Nov 2025
Apple iTunes, the Rip Mix Burn advert, 2001; via YouTube (video embedded below). The year 2001 began with optimism — in January, Wikipedia debuted and Apple launched iTunes. But by year’s end the mood had shifted. The dot-com crash had drained Silicon Valley’s exuberance, Napster...
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Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
5th Jan 2024
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Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords

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5th Jan 2024
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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Transcript for Interview with Harvey Lederman on AI Welfare 1.
14th Sep 2026
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Transcript for Interview with Harvey Lederman on AI Welfare

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What the Internet Was Like in 2002 KaZaA, one of many P2P file sharing services in 2002. In June 2002, Pew Research Center released a...
2nd Dec 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 2002

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2nd Dec 2025
KaZaA, one of many P2P file sharing services in 2002. In June 2002, Pew Research Center released a report on broadband uptake. It stated that 21% of all Internet users in America — 24 million adults — now had broadband in the home, up from just 6% two years ago. Of course,...
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Rockets and Space Coloring Book (1960) Some nice space pictures (to color) for you today.  Coloring books may be one of the ultimate forms...
8th Mar 2025
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Rockets and Space Coloring Book (1960)

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8th Mar 2025
Some nice space pictures (to color) for you today.  Coloring books may be one of the ultimate forms of ephemera. There were meant to be used, admired? and then thrown away. Yet many children owned them and there were at least 40 issued between 1950 and 1970 on space themes. If...
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Chinese researchers reversed aging in primates. Yes, it's real. This will sounds too incredible to be true, yet I spent the past 2 days fact-checking this and it...
5th Oct 2025
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Chinese researchers reversed aging in primates. Yes, it's real.

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5th Oct 2025
This will sounds too incredible to be true, yet I spent the past 2 days fact-checking this and it checks out: for the first time ever, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (now ranked as the world’s top research institution) have managed to systematically reverse...
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
1st Dec 2023
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays

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1st Dec 2023
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Stoicism VS Skepticism Which Ancient Philosophy Can Help Us Live Better Today?
1st Jun 2026
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Stoicism VS Skepticism

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Which Ancient Philosophy Can Help Us Live Better Today?
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The Sound and Fury of a Collapsing Order : As Trump’s Power Wanes, A Window Opens for Change In the waning phase of Donald Trump’s reign, opportunities will open up for profound social change....
8th Apr 2026
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The Sound and Fury of a Collapsing Order : As Trump’s Power Wanes, A Window Opens for Change

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8th Apr 2026
In the waning phase of Donald Trump’s reign, opportunities will open up for profound social change. Here, we explore the nature of the difficulties besetting his administration and propose a few starting places for those who aim to do more than simply remove him from power. In...
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Immigrant assimilation in Denmark A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
17th May 2024
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Immigrant assimilation in Denmark

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A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
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OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans
31st Jul 2025
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OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery

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31st Jul 2025
Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
13th Feb 2024
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism

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13th Feb 2024
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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What the Internet Was Like in 1994 Netscape's mascot, Mozilla, in 1994; artist: Dave Titus. The World Wide Web was in its infancy as...
5th Mar 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 1994

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5th Mar 2025
Netscape's mascot, Mozilla, in 1994; artist: Dave Titus. The World Wide Web was in its infancy as 1994 dawned. There were just 623 websites in the entire world at the beginning of the year. By June 1994, that figure had risen to 2,738 and by year's end it had tipped over 10,000....
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My new git utility `what-changed-twice` needs a new name As I have , my typical workflow is to go along commiting stuff that might or might not make sense,...
21st Sep 2025
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My new git utility `what-changed-twice` needs a new name

from The Universe of Discourse [alt+shift+b] in history

21st Sep 2025
As I have , my typical workflow is to go along commiting stuff that might or might not make sense, then clean it all up at the end, doing multiple passes with and to get related changes into the same commit, and then to order the commits in a sensible way. Yesterday I built a...
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What the Internet Was Like in 1999 1999 Napster software running on Windows 98; photo by Christiaan Colen. When AOL completed its...
3rd Sep 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 1999

from Cybercultural: Internet History [alt+shift+b] in history

3rd Sep 2025
1999 Napster software running on Windows 98; photo by Christiaan Colen. When AOL completed its acquisition of Netscape in March 1999, a part of the old web died forever. By the end of the year (and the century), Netscape's share of the browser market had shrunk to about 20% and...
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Patronage vs. Constituent Parties (Or Why Republican Party Leaders Matter More Than Democratic Ones) The Republican and Democratic parties are not the same: power flows differently within them. The two...
20th Jul 2024
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Patronage vs. Constituent Parties (Or Why Republican Party Leaders Matter More Than Democratic Ones)

from The Scholar's Stage [alt+shift+b] in history

20th Jul 2024
The Republican and Democratic parties are not the same: power flows differently within them. The two big political news items of this week—the happenings of the Republican National Convention and the desperate attempts of many Democrats to replace their candidate before their own...
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter NEW Event
1st Aug 2024
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter

from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Aug 2024
NEW Event
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A Shameless Plug: My “human evolution” book thought some folks here may be interested in this … I just finished up a book on human evolution,...
2 weeks ago
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A Shameless Plug: My “human evolution” book

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2 weeks ago
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...
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
17th Feb 2023
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain

from Dr Alun Withey [alt+shift+b] in history

17th Feb 2023
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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What the mudslide along China-Nepal border tells us about Himalayan Risk What we know about the disaster, why it was so hard to predict, and the challenge of building a...
3rd Sep 2026
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What the mudslide along China-Nepal border tells us about Himalayan Risk

from Beijing Scroll [alt+shift+b] in history

3rd Sep 2026
What we know about the disaster, why it was so hard to predict, and the challenge of building a cross-border warning system
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Just ANSWER THE QUESTION Here's a Math SE pathology that bugs me. OP will ask "I'm trying to prove that groups and are...
5th Nov 2024
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Just ANSWER THE QUESTION

from The Universe of Discourse [alt+shift+b] in history

5th Nov 2024
Here's a Math SE pathology that bugs me. OP will ask "I'm trying to prove that groups and are isomorphic, I constructed this bijection but I see that it's not a homomorphism. Is it sufficient, or do I need to find a bijective homomorphism?" And respondent will reply in the...
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Abstraction Worsens Drift My Ph.D.
2nd May 2025
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Abstraction Worsens Drift

from Overcoming Bias [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd May 2025
My Ph.D.
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Quick's Flying Saucers and Rocket Ships (1953) A couple of rare (ish) punch-out books from 1953. I had tried to find copies for a while but finally...
1st Aug 2026
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Quick's Flying Saucers and Rocket Ships (1953)

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Aug 2026
A couple of rare (ish) punch-out books from 1953. I had tried to find copies for a while but finally it cam together. I really like the space graphics and the space helmet on the back. I also want my own "Robot Man" mask to wear. Lots of cool space toys. Jones, Jim and Virdone,...
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Charles V: The Holy Roman Emperor Who Shaped Europe Due to a unique set of circumstances at the beginning of the 16th century, a teenage monarch...
1st May 2025
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Charles V: The Holy Roman Emperor Who Shaped Europe

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

1st May 2025
Due to a unique set of circumstances at the beginning of the 16th century, a teenage monarch inherited much of Europe, including Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and parts of Italy. Throughout his reign, Emperor Charles V fought to keep his empire together against his French,...
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America's Khrushchev moment There is no more tired cliché than Mark Twain’s quote “history rarely repeats itself, but it often...
16th Dec 2025
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America's Khrushchev moment

from Arnaud Bertrand [alt+shift+b] in history

16th Dec 2025
There is no more tired cliché than Mark Twain’s quote “history rarely repeats itself, but it often rhymes”.
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Dr. Morell and the Patient A A review of Normal Ohler’s "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany"
9th Aug 2025
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Dr. Morell and the Patient A

from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history

9th Aug 2025
A review of Normal Ohler’s "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany"
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Merry Mouse and His Trip to the Moon (1953) My next 4 posts are celebrating children's illustrated fiction about going to the Moon. Even though...
1st Aug 2025
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Merry Mouse and His Trip to the Moon (1953)

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Aug 2025
My next 4 posts are celebrating children's illustrated fiction about going to the Moon. Even though I have been collecting these children's book for over 30 years it still is very exciting to find one that you never knew existed. Jack Coggins was an amazing space artist in the...
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The Bards of the Second Reformation 'John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs' by Ian Leslie
3rd May 2025
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The Bards of the Second Reformation

from Wrong Side of History [alt+shift+b] in history

3rd May 2025
'John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs' by Ian Leslie
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Forgotten Cities of the Swahili coast: A history of Pemba in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (ca.... Journal of African Cities: chapter 19
1st Feb 2026
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Forgotten Cities of the Swahili coast: A history of Pemba in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (ca. 600-1822 CE)

from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Feb 2026
Journal of African Cities: chapter 19
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Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
1st Apr 2021
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Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising

from Dr Alun Withey [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Apr 2021
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
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Reality Would Like A Word. Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
2nd Aug 2023
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Reality Would Like A Word.

from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd Aug 2023
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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China found in U.S. archives an energy source that could power its future for 20,000 years - and... I’m not exaggerating.
6th Nov 2025
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China found in U.S. archives an energy source that could power its future for 20,000 years - and made it work

from Arnaud Bertrand [alt+shift+b] in history

6th Nov 2025
I’m not exaggerating.
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed. They didn't know. But they know now.
1st May 2024
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.

from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history

1st May 2024
They didn't know. But they know now.
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Origins of the Odyssey Rethinking the Dark Age and the Alphabet
2 weeks ago
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Origins of the Odyssey

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2 weeks ago
Rethinking the Dark Age and the Alphabet
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All About Aid. Well, probably more than you wanted to know, anyway.
5th Mar 2025
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All About Aid.

from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history

5th Mar 2025
Well, probably more than you wanted to know, anyway.
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How many are criminals? Probably more than you think...
11th Aug 2025
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How many are criminals?

from Patterns in Humanity [alt+shift+b] in history

11th Aug 2025
Probably more than you think...
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