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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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8 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
TheCollector
Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
a month ago
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
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...
Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
2 months ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
TheCollector
4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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TheCollector
What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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TheCollector
10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Tertullian?
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TheCollector
7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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11 months ago
TheCollector
New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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a month ago
TheCollector
The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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3 days ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
3 months ago
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
TheCollector
Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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a month ago
TheCollector
The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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a year ago
TheCollector
Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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11 months ago
Flashbak
A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
11 months ago
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
2 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
Flashbak
Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
11 months ago
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
TheCollector
5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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TheCollector
Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
a year ago
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
6 months ago
TheCollector
Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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TheCollector
Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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TheCollector
Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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8 months ago
Open Culture
Bob Dylan Reads “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006)
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex...
a week ago
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex Pistols’ singer John Lydon, former Clash frontman Joe Strummer, former Woody Guthrie impersonator Bob Dylan.… Luckily for me, this ain’t just fantasy baseball; at various times,...
Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
a year ago
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
TheCollector
Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
It was all too difficult, finally.
6 months ago
It was all too difficult, finally.
TheCollector
8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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4 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
TheCollector
An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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9 months ago
CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
a month ago
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
TheCollector
5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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TheCollector
Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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5 months ago
Open Culture
How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work....
a week ago
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
Flashbak
Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
11 months ago
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
Trying to Understand...
Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
3 months ago
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
TheCollector
Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Art of the Interesting
a month ago
The Art of the Interesting
TheCollector
Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
7 months ago
The Tragedy of the Trenches
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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a year ago
Flashbak
Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
4 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
Trying to Understand...
No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
TheCollector
7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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a year ago
African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
a year ago
Africa's past carved in ivory
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Essential Classics
Memorial Sales Ends
7 months ago
TheCollector
The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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a week ago
TheCollector
Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
a month ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
4 months ago
TheCollector
6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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TheCollector
Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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7 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
over a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
TheCollector
The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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TheCollector
Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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5 months ago
Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
8 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
Flashbak
Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
8 months ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
TheCollector
Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
3 weeks ago
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
TheCollector
René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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TheCollector
10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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9 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
a year ago
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
Flashbak
Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
a year ago
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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TheCollector
How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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7 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
Flashbak
Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
TheCollector
5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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TheCollector
The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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10 months ago
Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
2 weeks ago
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato Vs Aristotle
7 months ago
TheCollector
Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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2 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
5 months ago
A Different View of Thucydides
TheCollector
The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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10 months ago
Open Culture
The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are...
3 days ago
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was...
TheCollector
Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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TheCollector
What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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11 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
a year ago
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
TheCollector
Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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TheCollector
6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
TheCollector
5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
2 months ago
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
6 months ago
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
3 weeks ago
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
TheCollector
What Was Cultural Life in the Weimar Republic Like?
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a week ago
History Today Feed
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Banned Book Week Begins...
3 months ago
Banned Book Week Begins...
TheCollector
Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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a year ago
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