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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
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In...
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
a month 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.
Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
Quesnay and China
11 months ago
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
a year ago
Laconic wit through the centuries
TheCollector
When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
2 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
TheCollector
Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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3 months ago
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...
Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
a year ago
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
TheCollector
A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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9 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
2 days ago
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
3 weeks ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
TheCollector
The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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TheCollector
How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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TheCollector
The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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TheCollector
What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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a year ago
TheCollector
What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
8 months ago
TheCollector
Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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2 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
TheCollector
5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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TheCollector
What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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TheCollector
17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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10 months ago
TheCollector
6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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TheCollector
What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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TheCollector
8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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9 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
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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TheCollector
The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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5 months ago
Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
a year ago
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
TheCollector
Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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6 months ago
TheCollector
A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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TheCollector
When Was the First Flight in History?
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TheCollector
The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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TheCollector
What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
4 months ago
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
TheCollector
Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Classical Wisdom
Odysseus in the Underworld
Real or Fantasy?
a year ago
TheCollector
Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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TheCollector
Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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Flashbak
Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
2 months ago
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
TheCollector
Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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TheCollector
Who Was Vercingetorix?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
TheCollector
What Is a Film Auteur?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Clement of Rome?
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
5 months ago
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
TheCollector
Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
7 months ago
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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...
A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
3 months ago
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
TheCollector
The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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TheCollector
7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
4 months ago
TheCollector
World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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8 months ago
African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
2 months ago
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
TheCollector
The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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TheCollector
Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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a year ago
TheCollector
What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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a year ago
TheCollector
Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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10 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
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...
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 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...
TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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TheCollector
New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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TheCollector
5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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7 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
a month ago
American polarisation: part 2
TheCollector
What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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a year ago
TheCollector
Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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a year ago
TheCollector
Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
a year ago
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
TheCollector
6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The End of the World?
a year ago
TheCollector
Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
3 weeks ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
TheCollector
The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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TheCollector
Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
a month ago
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
TheCollector
What Is Theodicy?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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a year ago
TheCollector
When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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a year ago
Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
a month ago
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
TheCollector
7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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3 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
5 months ago
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
2 weeks ago
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
3 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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5 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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10 months ago
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