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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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
4 months ago
History Today Feed
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
a month ago
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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5 months ago
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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a year ago
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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a year ago
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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a year ago
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
9 months ago
Corruption in the Ancient World
TheCollector
Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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7 months ago
Flashbak
London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
4 months ago
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Changing Seasons
3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
Flashbak
Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
4 months ago
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
6 months ago
TheCollector
Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
TheCollector
Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
Flashbak
Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
8 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
TheCollector
Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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6 months ago
African History...
A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
a year ago
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
TheCollector
Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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2 months ago
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7 African Myths About Animals
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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a year ago
African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
9 months ago
state and society in south-central Africa
TheCollector
What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Nature in Greek Myth
Magical and Medicinal
9 months ago
TheCollector
Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classical Wisdom Books
a year ago
TheCollector
8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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4 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
Wrong Side of...
Europe's absent-minded revolution
Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
a week ago
Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
a year ago
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
TheCollector
The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
TheCollector
Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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5 months ago
TheCollector
5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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11 months ago
TheCollector
5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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TheCollector
Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Hanseatic League?
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8 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
a year ago
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
TheCollector
Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
a year ago
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
TheCollector
“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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a year ago
TheCollector
New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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8 months ago
TheCollector
7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
a year ago
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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a year ago
TheCollector
9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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a year ago
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
a week ago
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
Flashbak
Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
7 months ago
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
11 months ago
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
a year ago
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
TheCollector
Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories)
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
a month ago
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
9 months ago
History Today Feed
The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
8 months ago
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
a year ago
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
TheCollector
The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
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
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
TheCollector
A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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TheCollector
Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Cotton & How It Changed the World
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
And does it need to be true to be important?
Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
a month ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
TheCollector
The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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8 months ago
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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11 months ago
weird medieval guys
Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
a year ago
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
TheCollector
Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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TheCollector
The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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TheCollector
The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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a year ago
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
a month ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
TheCollector
Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
a week ago
Hundred Rabbits
doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
TheCollector
John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
TheCollector
Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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5 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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a year ago
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