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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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John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds Buy Artificial Intelligence from Bookshop.org (with kickback) (without kickback) One of the...
5th Feb 2026
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John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds

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5th Feb 2026
Buy Artificial Intelligence from Bookshop.org (with kickback) (without kickback) One of the better books I read in college was Artifical Intelligence: The Very Idea (1985) by philosopher John Haugeland. One of the sections I found most striking and memorable was about...
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Spicy Noodles: Dave Winer and the Web 2.0 Workgroup Celebrating the formation of the Web 2.0 Workgroup at Jing Jing, Palo Alto. From left to right: Gabe...
4th Dec 2023
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Spicy Noodles: Dave Winer and the Web 2.0 Workgroup

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4th Dec 2023
Celebrating the formation of the Web 2.0 Workgroup at Jing Jing, Palo Alto. From left to right: Gabe Rivera, Dave Winer, me, Mike Arrington, Fred Oliveira; photo by Dave Winer. During my stay at the TechCrunch ranch, Mike Arrington, Fred Oliveira and I had been discussing how to...
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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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The end of the great order under the Heaven A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
22nd Aug 2024
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The end of the great order under the Heaven

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22nd Aug 2024
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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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

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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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More on Xi Jinping’s Industrial Drive + London Meet Up A few items of interest to my readers: First, at the end of last month I appeared on the German...
27th Jun 2024
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More on Xi Jinping’s Industrial Drive + London Meet Up

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27th Jun 2024
A few items of interest to my readers: First, at the end of last month I appeared on the German Marshall Fund's China Global podcast to discuss the CPC's current techno-industrial drive. You can listen to the full thing on Simplecast, Apple Podcast, or in the embed below:
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Demographics and American Homicides Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
21st Jan 2024
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Demographics and American Homicides

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21st Jan 2024
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Weekend Roundup Quiz Time!
2nd Feb 2025
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Weekend Roundup

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2nd Feb 2025
Quiz Time!
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African cities in the 19th century: cosmopolitan urban spaces between three worlds. When the German adventurer Gerhard Rohlfs visited the city of Ibadan in 1867, he described it as...
2nd Mar 2025
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African cities in the 19th century: cosmopolitan urban spaces between three worlds.

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2nd Mar 2025
When the German adventurer Gerhard Rohlfs visited the city of Ibadan in 1867, he described it as “one of the greatest cities of the interior of Africa” with “endlessly long and wide streets made up of trading stalls.” However, unlike many of the West African cities he had...
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Summary of changes for October Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
3rd Nov 2021
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Summary of changes for October

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3rd Nov 2021
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn). uxn,...
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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

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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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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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3rd Dec 2024
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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1998: How Amazon Conquered Online CD Retailers Like CDnow CDnow homepage, December 1998; via Wayback Machine. 1998 started promisingly for CDnow, a leading...
1st Jul 2025
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1998: How Amazon Conquered Online CD Retailers Like CDnow

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1st Jul 2025
CDnow homepage, December 1998; via Wayback Machine. 1998 started promisingly for CDnow, a leading online music retailer — or "e-tailer" as e-commerce sites were sometimes called at the time. "CDnow goes public with a bang," read a CNET headline on February 10, 1998: "After upping...
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Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel. I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
1st Feb 2024
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Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.

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

1st Feb 2024
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
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My work on behalf of Mentour Pilot
2nd Dec 2025
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My work on behalf of Mentour Pilot

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2nd Dec 2025
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Baseball on the Moon We want to adapt baseball to be played on the moon. Is there any way to make it work? My first...
18th Mar 2025
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Baseball on the Moon

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18th Mar 2025
We want to adapt baseball to be played on the moon. Is there any way to make it work? My first impression is: no, for several reasons. The pitched ball will go a little faster (no air resistance) but breaking balls are impossible (ditto). So the batter will find it easier to...
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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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How Extra Virgin Olive Oil Got its Name The Ancient History in Your Kitchen
1st Apr 2025
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How Extra Virgin Olive Oil Got its Name

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1st Apr 2025
The Ancient History in Your Kitchen
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The Birth of the Modern Moral Panic How the gin craze set a template for fear of intoxicants
13th Aug 2025
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The Birth of the Modern Moral Panic

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13th Aug 2025
How the gin craze set a template for fear of intoxicants
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Do YOU Know the Trojan War? Weekly Wisdom Quiz
2nd Aug 2026
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Do YOU Know the Trojan War?

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2nd Aug 2026
Weekly Wisdom Quiz
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To all the newspapers I loved The decline and fall of the print media.
2nd Feb 2024
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To all the newspapers I loved

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2nd Feb 2024
The decline and fall of the print media.
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From under the rubble A review of Grdešić and Žitko’s “Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia: A Critical History”
1st Dec 2025
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From under the rubble

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1st Dec 2025
A review of Grdešić and Žitko’s “Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia: A Critical History”
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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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3rd Jan 2026
It is a fundamental question.
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New Acquisitions: Tolkien and Éowyn Between Two Wars (PPP Moot Keynote) Hey folks! I am working on finishing up some things this week, so I thought I would post the text of...
3rd Jan 2026
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New Acquisitions: Tolkien and Éowyn Between Two Wars (PPP Moot Keynote)

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3rd Jan 2026
Hey folks! I am working on finishing up some things this week, so I thought I would post the text of the keynote I gave at the Prancing Pony Podcast Moot earlier this December. I’ve made some minor edits to conform a bit more to the form of a blog post, but this remains very …...
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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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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 third framing Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
9th Sep 2024
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The third framing

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9th Sep 2024
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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How the Ancient Game of Chess Spread Across the World Virtually everyone is familiar with chess, even if they are not avid players themselves. The game is...
1st Mar 2026
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How the Ancient Game of Chess Spread Across the World

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1st Mar 2026
Virtually everyone is familiar with chess, even if they are not avid players themselves. The game is a recurring motif in many of our films, TV shows, stories, and other media. Every year, thousands of chess players compete for prestige at the international level to secure their...
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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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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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How Sony Lost Control of Digital Music Control, DRM, and the moment distribution stopped being governable
1st Mar 2026
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How Sony Lost Control of Digital Music

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1st Mar 2026
Control, DRM, and the moment distribution stopped being governable
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Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop ...so I vibe-coded a tool for finding more of them
22nd Jul 2026
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Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop

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22nd Jul 2026
...so I vibe-coded a tool for finding more of them
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A puzzle about balancing test tubes in a centrifuge Suppose a centrifuge has slots, arranged in a circle around the center, and we have test tubes we...
1st May 2025
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A puzzle about balancing test tubes in a centrifuge

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1st May 2025
Suppose a centrifuge has slots, arranged in a circle around the center, and we have test tubes we wish to place into the slots. If the tubes are not arranged symmetrically around the center, the centrifuge will explode. (By "arranged symmetrically around the center, I mean that...
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The Chernobyl Podcast and the Value of Internet Deep Dives I’ve just finished watching the HBO-Sky miniseries, Chernobyl. It was by far the best new tv series...
12th Jun 2019
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The Chernobyl Podcast and the Value of Internet Deep Dives

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12th Jun 2019
I’ve just finished watching the HBO-Sky miniseries, Chernobyl. It was by far the best new tv series I’ve seen all year — a horrifying true story told in a masterful way by its writer, director, and actors. About midway through binging the five episodes, I discovered there was a...
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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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An Apology And A Few Suggestions. More next week.
2nd Jul 2025
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An Apology And A Few Suggestions.

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2nd Jul 2025
More next week.
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Top Washington strategist says U.S. bases in Asia are “all risk and little reward” Is she the canary in the coal mine
a week ago
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Top Washington strategist says U.S. bases in Asia are “all risk and little reward”

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a week ago
Is she the canary in the coal mine
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No More Heroes. Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
6th Nov 2024
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No More Heroes.

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6th Nov 2024
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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What the Internet Was Like in 2005 By 2005, Web 2.0 — the Web as platform — was the driving trend of Silicon Valley. It was a new tech...
1st Jun 2024
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What the Internet Was Like in 2005

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1st Jun 2024
By 2005, Web 2.0 — the Web as platform — was the driving trend of Silicon Valley. It was a new tech bubble, and that meant startup launches galore. YouTube and Reddit were just a couple of the future all-star web products launched in 2005. There were also plenty of acquisitions...
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The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
8th Nov 2023
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The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century

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8th Nov 2023
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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It must be nice to have Washington on our side Thomas Jefferson and the American genius
3rd Jan 2026
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It must be nice to have Washington on our side

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3rd Jan 2026
Thomas Jefferson and the American genius
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No, the war on Iran is not about China. Europe should be much more worried. The big talking point in the West these days to justify the illegal war of aggression against Iran...
11th Mar 2026
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No, the war on Iran is not about China. Europe should be much more worried.

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11th Mar 2026
The big talking point in the West these days to justify the illegal war of aggression against Iran is to say that it is, in fact, all about China - part of a strategy to encircle China energetically and deprive them of a geopolitical partner.
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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...
3 days ago
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Sony and Meta Explained: The Future of PlayStation VR

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3 days ago
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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Summary of changes for July 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4th Aug 2024
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Summary of changes for July 2024

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4th Aug 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added Sitka, and completed route in us se alaska. Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu. Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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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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Summary of changes for May 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3rd Jun 2024
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Summary of changes for May 2024

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3rd Jun 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
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Che Guevara: A Life Told in Historical Photos from Youth to Final Years Few figures of the twentieth century have left behind a presence as unmistakable as Ernesto “Che”...
5th Dec 2025
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Che Guevara: A Life Told in Historical Photos from Youth to Final Years

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5th Dec 2025
Few figures of the twentieth century have left behind a presence as unmistakable as Ernesto “Che” Guevara. His image, reproduced on posters, album covers, and banners around the world, became an emblem of rebellion long after the man himself was gone. Yet behind the familiar icon...
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Museum Ship USS Croaker The submarine USS Croaker was constructed during the Second World War, but some of its most...
2nd Jun 2026
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Museum Ship USS Croaker

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2nd Jun 2026
The submarine USS Croaker was constructed during the Second World War, but some of its most interesting work came during the Cold War. USS Croaker in 1944 The Gato-class was a very successful design, especially in the Pacific. During the Second World War, the Navy submarine...
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The Limits Of Our World. And the prisons we make for ourselves.
5th Aug 2026
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The Limits Of Our World.

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5th Aug 2026
And the prisons we make for ourselves.
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter NEW Event
1st Aug 2024
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter

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1st Aug 2024
NEW Event
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My Weekly Reader and Gemini (1965,1966) As I got through boxes I found a couple of My Weekly Readers that I had not shared before. My Weekly...
1st Feb 2025
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My Weekly Reader and Gemini (1965,1966)

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

1st Feb 2025
As I got through boxes I found a couple of My Weekly Readers that I had not shared before. My Weekly Reader posts seem to be popular for their nostalgia effect and because as ephemera no one saved them from their youth. These particular ones are about the Gemini missions. At the...
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An Invitation to The Rats Wedding And Vietnam’s Ðông Hồ Folk Paintings Often used to illustrate Vietnamese New Year, Ðông Hồ paintings are bright, witty riffs on society...
1st Apr 2026
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An Invitation to The Rats Wedding And Vietnam’s Ðông Hồ Folk Paintings

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1st Apr 2026
Often used to illustrate Vietnamese New Year, Ðông Hồ paintings are bright, witty riffs on society and human desire. The traditional themes of Đông Hồ painting and woodblock prints are good luck signs, historical figures, folk allegories, popular stories, and social commentaries....
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Stone, Scissors, Paper. Or, Europe after Ukraine.
5th Feb 2025
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Stone, Scissors, Paper.

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5th Feb 2025
Or, Europe after Ukraine.
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The Life of Flowers In Vintage Found Photographs Flowers speak a language we understand. They tell us of time and its passing. They speak of life and...
1st Apr 2025
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The Life of Flowers In Vintage Found Photographs

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1st Apr 2025
Flowers speak a language we understand. They tell us of time and its passing. They speak of life and death, enduring, waiting and survival. They speak of hope and renewal. “To be a flower,” Emily Dickinson wrote in Bloom, a poem, “is profound Responsibility”. We’re thinking of...
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Rethinking the “Technology Gap” in African History: Guns, Plows, and Furnaces. Popular literature on the history of technology maintains that the limited adoption of more complex...
7th Jun 2026
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Rethinking the “Technology Gap” in African History: Guns, Plows, and Furnaces.

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7th Jun 2026
Popular literature on the history of technology maintains that the limited adoption of more complex technologies in pre-colonial Africa placed the continent at a disadvantage in its interactions with the wider world.
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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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19th Nov 2023
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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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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Years of Salt and Metal | The crash of Hop-a-Jet flight 823
26th Aug 2026
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Years of Salt and Metal | The crash of Hop-a-Jet flight 823

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26th Aug 2026
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The Politics Of Destruction. Incorporating the destruction of politics.
7th Jan 2026
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The Politics Of Destruction.

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Incorporating the destruction of politics.
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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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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 northwest Europe attained modern homicide rates already by 1750 The long-run decline of violence in Europe, and why poverty is not responsible for violent crime
26th Nov 2025
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How northwest Europe attained modern homicide rates already by 1750

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The long-run decline of violence in Europe, and why poverty is not responsible for violent crime
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"He spoke of computers with some awe" Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
19th Mar 2024
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"He spoke of computers with some awe"

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Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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When Leisure Suits Ruled: A Look at the Men’s Fashion Phenomenon of the 1970s The leisure suit was impossible to miss in the 1970s. Worn in offices, nightclubs, and everywhere in...
6th Jan 2026
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When Leisure Suits Ruled: A Look at the Men’s Fashion Phenomenon of the 1970s

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6th Jan 2026
The leisure suit was impossible to miss in the 1970s. Worn in offices, nightclubs, and everywhere in between, it became a defining look of the decade and a clear break from the stiff formality that had dominated men’s fashion for generations. Comfortable, affordable, and...
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Science Proceeds One Question at a Time MIDWAY through his 900 page history of biology, zoologist Ernst Mayr considers the problem posed by...
1st Jan 2025
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Science Proceeds One Question at a Time

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MIDWAY through his 900 page history of biology, zoologist Ernst Mayr considers the problem posed by Alfred Wallace. Wallace was a contemporary of Charles Darwin who independently developed a theory of speciation by means of natural selection. By the time Wallace came on the scene...
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‘Smock-Faced’ and ‘Imperbicke: The Shame of Beardlessness’ This week I had the wonderful message from WordPress that my blog has now had more than 500,000...
28th Aug 2026
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‘Smock-Faced’ and ‘Imperbicke: The Shame of Beardlessness’

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28th Aug 2026
This week I had the wonderful message from WordPress that my blog has now had more than 500,000 views, from over 120 countries. When I started the blog more than a decade ago I had no expectation that anyone would read the posts, so thank you to everyone for your support. As you...
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1997: Netscape Crossware vs. the Windows Web After Microsoft upped the ante in the browser market in 1996 by integrating Internet Explorer 3.0...
9th Mar 2021
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1997: Netscape Crossware vs. the Windows Web

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9th Mar 2021
After Microsoft upped the ante in the browser market in 1996 by integrating Internet Explorer 3.0 into Windows, Netscape began the new year with a renewed focus on the open web. Co-founder and CTO Marc Andreessen, along with the Netscape product team, introduced a new strategy...
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures “Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
1st Aug 2024
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures

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1st Aug 2024
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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A history of currencies and monetary systems in the southern half of Africa African monetary systems were characterized by the concurrent use of classical (metal) currencies...
5th Oct 2025
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A history of currencies and monetary systems in the southern half of Africa

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African monetary systems were characterized by the concurrent use of classical (metal) currencies and commodity currencies that fulfilled a variety of functions.
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The Newer World Order. But can they get their heads round it?
7th Feb 2024
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The Newer World Order.

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But can they get their heads round it?
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Tension-Filled Black Holes Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
6th Nov 2024
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Tension-Filled Black Holes

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Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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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

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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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A self-absorbed giant Dearth of Chinese lessons for the rest of the world
12th Jul 2026
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A self-absorbed giant

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Dearth of Chinese lessons for the rest of the world
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Typhoons and mold For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
28th Feb 2020
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Typhoons and mold

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28th Feb 2020
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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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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Best BigCo of 2009: Google This post as it looked in 2009. In one of ReadWriteWeb's longest-running traditions, every year we...
16th Dec 2009
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Best BigCo of 2009: Google

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This post as it looked in 2009. In one of ReadWriteWeb's longest-running traditions, every year we review the top Internet companies and their impact over the past 12 months. Today we're announcing the 6th annual Best BigCo, a.k.a. big Internet company. Next week we'll announce...
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Should poor countries remain poor? Stock vs flow approach.
30th Mar 2024
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Should poor countries remain poor?

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Stock vs flow approach.
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Burton Grad: A Tribute CHM offers a tribute to a special computing pioneer who worked with CHM for decades, sharing his...
8th Jul 2025
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Burton Grad: A Tribute

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CHM offers a tribute to a special computing pioneer who worked with CHM for decades, sharing his passion for the history of software with the world. The post Burton Grad: A Tribute appeared first on CHM.
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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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Explore This Historic Ship When It Docks In London This Summer Nao Victoria sails into St Katharine Docks.
1st Jun 2026
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Explore This Historic Ship When It Docks In London This Summer

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Nao Victoria sails into St Katharine Docks.
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Tech and the Future of News: A CHM Initiative CHM’s Tech and the Future of News initiative decoded the impact of new technologies powered by...
23rd Jun 2025
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Tech and the Future of News: A CHM Initiative

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CHM’s Tech and the Future of News initiative decoded the impact of new technologies powered by artificial intelligence on journalism and the news industry. The post Tech and the Future of News: A CHM Initiative appeared first on CHM.
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The Ancient Empires of Africa: Imperial Governments and “Native” Rulers. Ancient state structures in Africa included Empires, which carried with them all the complexity,...
6th Sep 2026
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The Ancient Empires of Africa: Imperial Governments and “Native” Rulers.

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Ancient state structures in Africa included Empires, which carried with them all the complexity, inequalities, and political baggage inherent in such systems.
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The General History of Africa a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
7th Apr 2024
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The General History of Africa

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a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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Check-In Culture: Foursquare Raps by the Go-Bang Mayor I recently had occasion to write about Foursquare, the once popular location check-in app. I’d been...
21st Feb 2023
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Check-In Culture: Foursquare Raps by the Go-Bang Mayor

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21st Feb 2023
I recently had occasion to write about Foursquare, the once popular location check-in app. I’d been emailed by its PR firm about a potential Machine Learning story. In her pitch, the PR rep had called Foursquare a “location data platform.” All this piqued my interest as a tech...
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The End of Egypt How the first cataract of the Nile has shaped millennia of history
4th Jan 2026
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The End of Egypt

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How the first cataract of the Nile has shaped millennia of history
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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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The "mechanical miracle" that ruined Mark Twain's life Learning from the automation dreams of the first Machine Age
5th Aug 2026
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The "mechanical miracle" that ruined Mark Twain's life

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Learning from the automation dreams of the first Machine Age
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024 Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
2nd Aug 2024
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024

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Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIa: Family Formation This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II) discussing the patterns of life of...
1st Aug 2025
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIa: Family Formation

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1st Aug 2025
This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II) discussing the patterns of life of the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of all humans who lived in our agrarian past and indeed a majority of all humans who have ever lived. Last week, we looked at...
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When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet...
2nd Apr 2025
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When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI

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2nd Apr 2025
One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar.
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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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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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2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
15th Jan 2025
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2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past

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15th Jan 2025
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
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How Blogs and Newsletters Can Fight Back at Social Media Tumblr was founded early 2007, around the same time Twitter was spun off into its own company. At...
4th Sep 2019
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How Blogs and Newsletters Can Fight Back at Social Media

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4th Sep 2019
Tumblr was founded early 2007, around the same time Twitter was spun off into its own company. At the time, both were labelled “microblogging” — a clumsy term that tried to bridge the existing blogging world with the still nascent trend of social networking. Of the two products,...
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness The Netherlands has produced some of the most celebrated painters in history, from the luminous...
1st Oct 2025
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness

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1st Oct 2025
The Netherlands has produced some of the most celebrated painters in history, from the luminous scenes of Vermeer to the powerful portraits of Rembrandt and the bold colors of Van Gogh. Here are seven Dutch artists whose work has achieved global acclaim and continues to captivate...
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Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective. Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
25th Apr 2022
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Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.

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25th Apr 2022
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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Travels in Vietnam In my father's footsteps
4th Feb 2025
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Travels in Vietnam

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In my father's footsteps
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Summary of changes for November 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
30th Nov 2024
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Summary of changes for November 2024

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook. Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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Terry-Thomas, Jimmy Tarbuck And The Diamond Cigarette Holder Heist TERRY-Thomas had arrived. It wasn’t exactly overnight but most people thought so. It was 1946 and he...
1st Aug 2026
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Terry-Thomas, Jimmy Tarbuck And The Diamond Cigarette Holder Heist

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TERRY-Thomas had arrived. It wasn’t exactly overnight but most people thought so. It was 1946 and he was compèring a revue called Piccadilly Hayride at the Prince of Wales Theatre. The post Terry-Thomas, Jimmy Tarbuck And The Diamond Cigarette Holder Heist appeared first on...
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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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3rd Nov 2024
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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Why I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years A special appeal to support Res Obscura on its Crystal Anniversary
4th Dec 2025
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Why I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years

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4th Dec 2025
A special appeal to support Res Obscura on its Crystal Anniversary
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Things Don't Always Get Better. And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
2nd Oct 2024
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Things Don't Always Get Better.

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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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Sunday Thread + Mailbag Ask your questions below.
1st Mar 2026
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Sunday Thread + Mailbag

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1st Mar 2026
Ask your questions below.
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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)

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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 Five Rivers of Hades in Greek Mythology and Beyond The Greek afterlife wasn’t simply a shadowy realm of nothingness. Over time, from Homer to Hesiod,...
1st May 2026
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The Five Rivers of Hades in Greek Mythology and Beyond

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1st May 2026
The Greek afterlife wasn’t simply a shadowy realm of nothingness. Over time, from Homer to Hesiod, Plato, and Virgil, through stories and poetry, it developed features of its own, with forests, mountains, cities, and lakes being considered as part of its geography. Of great...
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All About the Telescope (1980) Klushantsev, Pavel. Illustrated by Voishvillo, E., B. Kalaushin, and B. Starodubtsev. All About the...
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All About the Telescope (1980)

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Klushantsev, Pavel. Illustrated by Voishvillo, E., B. Kalaushin, and B. Starodubtsev. All About the Telescope. Translated by Jan Butler. Moscow: Progress Publishers. (70 p.) 1980 This book was a translation of the 1972 Russian book: Klushantsev, Pavel. Illustrated by Voishvillo,...
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BowieNet: The Inside Story of Its Creation David Bowie's website circa August-September 1998. In late 1996, just before his 50th birthday...
10th Jan 2023
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BowieNet: The Inside Story of Its Creation

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10th Jan 2023
David Bowie's website circa August-September 1998. In late 1996, just before his 50th birthday concert at Madison Square Garden and before his latest album ‘Earthling’ was released, David Bowie had quietly approved the development of what was to become his biggest internet...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
3rd Nov 2023
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces

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3rd Nov 2023
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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War In Our Time? We need the men in white coats.
3rd Sep 2025
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War In Our Time?

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3rd Sep 2025
We need the men in white coats.
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Weekly Wisdom Quiz Ancient Egypt, Diogenes, and more!
1st Jun 2025
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Weekly Wisdom Quiz

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1st Jun 2025
Ancient Egypt, Diogenes, and more!
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Get ready for the Ursulawave There can be no Based Europe (an article which completely contradicts my previous article)
3rd Feb 2026
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Get ready for the Ursulawave

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3rd Feb 2026
There can be no Based Europe (an article which completely contradicts my previous article)
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo. In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
8th Oct 2023
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.

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8th Oct 2023
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
21st Jul 2023
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR

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21st Jul 2023
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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In Memoriam: Sir Antony Hoare (1934–2026) CHM remembers 2006 Fellow Sir Antony Hoare, whose work is embedded in the very foundations of the...
11th Mar 2026
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In Memoriam: Sir Antony Hoare (1934–2026)

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11th Mar 2026
CHM remembers 2006 Fellow Sir Antony Hoare, whose work is embedded in the very foundations of the digital world. The post In Memoriam: Sir Antony Hoare (1934–2026) appeared first on CHM.
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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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Another Of My Essays in French Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
4th Dec 2023
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Another Of My Essays in French

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4th Dec 2023
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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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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17th Jan 2023
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder Historians are finally having their AI debate
7th May 2025
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AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder

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7th May 2025
Historians are finally having their AI debate
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A different game On football’s extreme commercialization
1st Jun 2026
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A different game

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1st Jun 2026
On football’s extreme commercialization
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback

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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Beard Fashions and Class Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
24th Feb 2021
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Beard Fashions and Class

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Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye Scotland draws tourists year-round to discover its stunning nature, fantastic views, and rich...
1st Aug 2025
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye

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Scotland draws tourists year-round to discover its stunning nature, fantastic views, and rich history. The Isle of Skye is the largest of the Inner Hebrides islands and is famous for its breathtaking views. You can discover the top places to visit on the Isle of Skye here. If...
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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...
30th Nov 2020
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Summary of changes for November

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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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Continue Reading
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6 Empires That Conquered Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt flourished for over three millennia, maintaining its unique culture and political...
1st Jun 2026
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6 Empires That Conquered Ancient Egypt

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Ancient Egypt flourished for over three millennia, maintaining its unique culture and political identity. But that does not mean that Egypt was never impacted by external threats. The Egyptians were conquered several times by foreign powers, who brought their own culture and...
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Weekly Wisdom Quiz Ancient Secrets of Success?
1st Mar 2026
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Weekly Wisdom Quiz

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Ancient Secrets of Success?
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Race and slavery in the Muslim world The role of anti-blackness in the Arab slave trades
29th Mar 2026
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Race and slavery in the Muslim world

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The role of anti-blackness in the Arab slave trades
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Summary of changes for January Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
31st Jan 2022
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Summary of changes for January

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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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
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Summary of changes for August 2026 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Sep 2026
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Summary of changes for August 2026

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1st Sep 2026
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August. Wiki, updated various sections in solar cooking experiment. Donsol, putting some final touches to the new release. Hakum, completed Recharge. Rabbit Waves, added an image for...
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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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“…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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Can't Do, Won't Do! But striking poses is fun and easy.
3rd Jan 2024
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Can't Do, Won't Do!

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But striking poses is fun and easy.
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Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps! Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
1st Jun 2023
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Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!

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Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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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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Which Playwright did it better?
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It all started in 1948 Featuring my recent appearance on Louise Perry's podcast
1st Jun 2026
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It all started in 1948

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Featuring my recent appearance on Louise Perry's podcast
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99 percent Utopia and money For full happiness is possible only in stagnation.
6th May 2026
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99 percent Utopia and money

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For full happiness is possible only in stagnation.
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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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Depth against slogans: what we saw in 6 weeks driving through Xinjiang
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Sophocles' Swansong Oedipus at Colonus
4th Aug 2023
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Sophocles' Swansong

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Sudan, 1898 From the archives
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Sudan, 1898

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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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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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The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge. At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
2nd Jun 2024
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The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.

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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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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...
30th Nov 2022
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Summary of changes for November

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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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe. Noodle,...
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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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Re-reading Richard Pipes’ "The Formation of the Soviet Union"
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The three German fears Historical origins of the malaise
15th Nov 2023
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The three German fears

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Historical origins of the malaise
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
6th Apr 2024
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III

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6th Apr 2024
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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African Revolutions and External Influences during the Long Nineteenth Century In the opening decades of the 19th century, Africa witnessed the emergence of new economic and...
3rd May 2026
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African Revolutions and External Influences during the Long Nineteenth Century

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In the opening decades of the 19th century, Africa witnessed the emergence of new economic and political dynamics that intersected with, and were in some areas the outcome of, external influences.
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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)

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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 Assimilation Myth: America Persistence and the Not-So Melting Pot
9th Apr 2025
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The Assimilation Myth: America

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Persistence and the Not-So Melting Pot
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A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899) State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
2nd Jul 2023
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A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)

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State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots “The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt  ...
1st Dec 2023
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots

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“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt   Elliott Erwitt died at his home in New York City on 29 November 2023. He leaves us with remarkable archive of fabulous photographs of the great and good, the many places he visited over...
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That's The Truth? In politics, well, it depends.
4th Oct 2023
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That's The Truth?

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In politics, well, it depends.
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State building in pre-colonial Somalia: the Sultanate of Geledi (ca. 1750-1908) For much of Somalia’s pre-colonial history, political organization was structured along clan and...
2nd Nov 2025
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State building in pre-colonial Somalia: the Sultanate of Geledi (ca. 1750-1908)

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For much of Somalia’s pre-colonial history, political organization was structured along clan and lineage divisions within largely acephalous societies.
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Nations Double-Down on Status Years ago I noticed that when my kids tried out a new game, those who won more wanted to play it...
2nd Apr 2026
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Nations Double-Down on Status

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2nd Apr 2026
Years ago I noticed that when my kids tried out a new game, those who won more wanted to play it again.
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Best Web BigCo of 2007: Facebook This post as it looked in 2007. Every year in December Read/WriteWeb does a Best Web Companies...
10th Dec 2007
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Best Web BigCo of 2007: Facebook

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This post as it looked in 2007. Every year in December Read/WriteWeb does a Best Web Companies round-up. This is the 4th time and, like last year, we're splitting it over two posts. In this post we'll announce the Best Web BigCo of 2007 and later in the week we'll announce Best...
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1997: JavaScript Grows Up, Developers Push Boundaries By the start of 1997, JavaScript had become a regular topic for tech reference websites and books....
4th May 2021
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1997: JavaScript Grows Up, Developers Push Boundaries

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4th May 2021
By the start of 1997, JavaScript had become a regular topic for tech reference websites and books. Nick Heinle was perhaps the epitome of this, as he began 1997 with a column on WebReference.com called JavaScript Tip of the Week, released an O’Reilly book in August 1997 entitled...
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But I don’t *want* to save liberal democracy UK News Report extra
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But I don’t *want* to save liberal democracy

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Recent addenda to articles 202609: Errors, omissions, and retractions I was going to start with “it has been a while since we had one of these” but then I saw that the...
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Recent addenda to articles 202609: Errors, omissions, and retractions

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I was going to start with “it has been a while since we had one of these” but then I saw that the previous one started with “Wow, has it really been 7 months since I did one of these?” and that was in December 2023. Maybe I can make it a more regular thing. Anyway blogging...
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Starting From Zero. Finlandisation 2,0?
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Starting From Zero.

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Finlandisation 2,0?
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Weekend Roundup Classics Gifts!
1st Dec 2024
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Weekend Roundup

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Classics Gifts!
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Summary of changes for June 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2nd May 2025
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Summary of changes for June 2025

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June. 100r.ca, updated costs, hauling out, united states and teapot gelcoat. Added san juan islands. Rabbit Waves, added all content links to the main page, released a new page called...
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A Demonstrator's Guide to Lockdowns and Blockades A complete guide to assembling and employing lockboxes and other means of blockading. There is a...
3rd Apr 2025
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A Demonstrator's Guide to Lockdowns and Blockades

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A complete guide to assembling and employing lockboxes and other means of blockading. There is a broad spectrum of tactics to choose from between simply holding up a protest sign and setting things on fire. If you are looking to intensify a pressure campaign or to stand your...
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Sub-replacement fertility in pre-baby boom Europe Past perspectives on fertility decline
20th Feb 2025
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Sub-replacement fertility in pre-baby boom Europe

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20th Feb 2025
Past perspectives on fertility decline
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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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They're all digital, baby!
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Summary of changes for May Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Jun 2022
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Summary of changes for May

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1st Jun 2022
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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Summary of changes for November 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2nd Dec 2025
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Summary of changes for November 2025

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2nd Dec 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November. Thousand Rooms, added an English version with one type of dyslexia-friendly typeface. A Danish version is also on the way. Orca, improved the interface, released an Orca...
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ReadWriteWeb Turns 20: Writing to the Web Then and Now Twenty years ago, on 20 April 2003, I published the first post on a blog I had just started....
20th Apr 2023
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ReadWriteWeb Turns 20: Writing to the Web Then and Now

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20th Apr 2023
Twenty years ago, on 20 April 2003, I published the first post on a blog I had just started. Entitled The Read/Write Web, it was a manifesto of sorts. The post was filled with optimism for the web and made the case that a new era was just beginning. A “Web 2.0,” if you will...
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Summary of changes for July Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
2nd Jul 2022
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Summary of changes for July

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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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The Tyranny of "We" Why "We Are All One Humanity" Is the Most Dangerous Idea on Earth
10th May 2026
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The Tyranny of "We"

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10th May 2026
Why "We Are All One Humanity" Is the Most Dangerous Idea on Earth
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Summary of changes for September 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Oct 2024
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Summary of changes for September 2024

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1st Oct 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook. M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs. Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
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Ibiza 1976: In 1976, German-born photographer Walter Rudolph went to Ibiza. We’ve been there twice before, in...
1st May 2026
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Ibiza 1976:

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In 1976, German-born photographer Walter Rudolph went to Ibiza. We’ve been there twice before, in the 1980s with Oriol Maspons (NSFW) and a group of British lads. In ’76, the Spanish island was a relatively untested destination for visitors to explore. In 2025, 19 million...
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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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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 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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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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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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What the Internet Was Like in 2011 2011 was the year Facebook, the world’s leading social network, launched Timeline and introduced its...
10th Jan 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 2011

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10th Jan 2025
2011 was the year Facebook, the world’s leading social network, launched Timeline and introduced its algorithmic feed. These changes were partly influenced by a formidable new competitor: Google+. Meanwhile, Android overtook Apple's iOS as the leading mobile platform, Microsoft...
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Futarchy's Minor Flaw In my 1999 article “Decision Markets” (IEEE Intelligent Systems 14(3):16-19, May/June), I explained...
2nd Oct 2025
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Futarchy's Minor Flaw

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In my 1999 article “Decision Markets” (IEEE Intelligent Systems 14(3):16-19, May/June), I explained how decision-conditional market estimates could be used to advise decisions, a concept I soon called “
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Transcript for Interview with Harvey Lederman on AI Welfare 1.
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Transcript for Interview with Harvey Lederman on AI Welfare

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Summary of changes for March 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
31st Mar 2023
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Summary of changes for March 2023

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31st Mar 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March. Summary Of Changes Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom. 100r.ca, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
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Summary of changes for January 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Feb 2025
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Summary of changes for January 2025

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1st Feb 2025
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 a new page: tote. Added Week 8 and Week 9 of the Victoria to Sitka logbook. Tote, released the project on itch.io. Grimgrains, added a new...
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Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
4th Jun 2023
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Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States

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4th Jun 2023
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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Figure Stuff Out Together We vary in our motives and priorities in thinking.
2nd May 2026
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Figure Stuff Out Together

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2nd May 2026
We vary in our motives and priorities in thinking.
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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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7th May 2023
Africa's past carved in ivory
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A complex bug with a ⸢simple⸣ fix Last month I did a fairly complex piece of systems programming that worked surprisingly well. But...
19th Sep 2024
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A complex bug with a ⸢simple⸣ fix

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19th Sep 2024
Last month I did a fairly complex piece of systems programming that worked surprisingly well. But it had one big bug that took me a day to track down. One reason I find the bug interesting is that it exemplifies the sort of challenges that come up in systems programming. The...
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Swearing and the Japanese Language It is sometimes said that the Japanese language does not have any swear words—no direct equivalents...
7th Oct 2025
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Swearing and the Japanese Language

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7th Oct 2025
It is sometimes said that the Japanese language does not have any swear words—no direct equivalents to English cursing like “fuck you” or “piece of shit”. That is technically true, mostly. For deep historical and cultural reasons, swearing in Japanese is entirely different from...
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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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1st Dec 2024
[ 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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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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13th Oct 2020
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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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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2000: The Napster Monster and Apple’s Heavenly Jukebox Shawn Fanning from Napster wearing a Metallica shirt to the 2000 MTV Awards; via Reddit. In May...
1st Oct 2025
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2000: The Napster Monster and Apple’s Heavenly Jukebox

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1st Oct 2025
Shawn Fanning from Napster wearing a Metallica shirt to the 2000 MTV Awards; via Reddit. In May 2000, Napster’s poster boy, Shawn Fanning, was featured on the cover of BusinessWeek magazine in a suit and bowtie, alongside four other “most influential people in electronic...
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Who Decides Culture? And Does it Require the Classics? Erik Satie's 'Socrate'
1st Dec 2025
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Who Decides Culture? And Does it Require the Classics?

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1st Dec 2025
Erik Satie's 'Socrate'
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An anecdote about backward compatibility A long time ago I worked on a debugger program that our company used to debug software that it sold...
26th Jan 2026
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An anecdote about backward compatibility

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26th Jan 2026
A long time ago I worked on a debugger program that our company used to debug software that it sold that ran on IBM System 370. We had that could display (I think) eight colors (if you count black), but the debugger display was only in black and white. I thought I might be...
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The Revolt of the Outer Party. Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
3rd Apr 2024
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The Revolt of the Outer Party.

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3rd Apr 2024
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala. It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
1st Sep 2024
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A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.

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1st Sep 2024
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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My Weekly Reader 1958-1959 March 3, 1958   Happy New Year's! I picked up a set of My Weekly Reader so I thought I would share...
1st Jan 2026
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My Weekly Reader 1958-1959

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1st Jan 2026
March 3, 1958   Happy New Year's! I picked up a set of My Weekly Reader so I thought I would share some with you as I have a chance to scan them. Some of these are from My Weekly Reader Picture Reader. This was the version for 1st graders. The next is from the My Weekly reader...
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Rise of Podcasting: Spotify and Google Make Moves Podcasting has been a growth industry this year, particularly after Spotify announced its intentions...
20th May 2019
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Rise of Podcasting: Spotify and Google Make Moves

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20th May 2019
Podcasting has been a growth industry this year, particularly after Spotify announced its intentions to rapidly expand into podcasting back in February. Podcasting is still a tiny industry compared to radio, but recent moves by both Spotify and Google are beginning to lay the...
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Gap Week: October 3, 2025 Hey folks! Apologies for the lack of a post this week – a mix of teaching, writing and family...
3rd Oct 2025
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Gap Week: October 3, 2025

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3rd Oct 2025
Hey folks! Apologies for the lack of a post this week – a mix of teaching, writing and family demands had to come first. Still, so that I don’t leave you with nothing to read, here are some things I’ve been reading and watching lately you may find interesting. Over on YouTube,...
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The key lesson from Iran? Kim Jong Un was right about everything. It’s hard to overstate or even begin to list all the genuinely awful precedents set by Israel and...
24th Jun 2025
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The key lesson from Iran? Kim Jong Un was right about everything.

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24th Jun 2025
It’s hard to overstate or even begin to list all the genuinely awful precedents set by Israel and the U.S.’s behavior vis à vis Iran in the latest war.
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Difficulties with Fanon Observations stimulated by Adam Shatz’s Rebel’s Clinic
3rd Jun 2025
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Difficulties with Fanon

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3rd Jun 2025
Observations stimulated by Adam Shatz’s Rebel’s Clinic
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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 2022
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Summary of changes for February

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28th Feb 2022
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 Adelie, released a program to create slideshows. GrimGrains,...
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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...
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Vintage Color Photos Capture New York City Streets and Daily Life in 1980

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6 days ago
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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Mournful Mouse and the Space Trip (1963) I am not really scraping the bottom of the barrel as much as taking the time to post the most...
11th Oct 2025
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Mournful Mouse and the Space Trip (1963)

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11th Oct 2025
I am not really scraping the bottom of the barrel as much as taking the time to post the most obscure stuff in my space book collection. I collected almost any pre 1980 children's book about spaceflight. I preferred the non-fiction but picked up some strange fiction and comics...
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After BowieNet, David Bowie Goes Dark and Shuns Social Media DavidBowie.com, January 8, 2013. After 2004, the rise of the social web — and especially platforms...
8th Jan 2026
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After BowieNet, David Bowie Goes Dark and Shuns Social Media

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8th Jan 2026
DavidBowie.com, January 8, 2013. After 2004, the rise of the social web — and especially platforms like MySpace and Facebook — made niche social networks like BowieNet less relevant in the culture. This shift coincided with the slow decline of BowieNet itself. The portal and ISP...
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AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research A followup to "The leading AI models are now good historians"
5th Mar 2025
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AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research

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5th Mar 2025
A followup to "The leading AI models are now good historians"
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