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TheCollector
Attalid Kingdom of Pergamon: A Great Power of the Hellenistic World During the Hellenistic era, an obscure city in western Asia Minor (modern Turkey) became one of the...
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During the Hellenistic era, an obscure city in western Asia Minor (modern Turkey) became one of the leading states of the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE. The Attalids, who ruled Pergamon, were a curious dynasty. Unusually harmonious in an era known for intra-dynastic strife, they were...
TheCollector
What Is the Book of Ezekiel About? From the first chapter, the Book of Ezekiel is packed with vivid imagery and colorful descriptions...
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From the first chapter, the Book of Ezekiel is packed with vivid imagery and colorful descriptions of God’s warnings to his people about the impending destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple. Like Jeremiah, Ezekiel pivots later to messages of hope and restoration, calling on the...
TheCollector
The Upstart Roman Emperor Otho Who Claimed Nero’s Legacy Marcus Silvius Otho has gone down in history for claiming the position of emperor of Rome for a...
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Marcus Silvius Otho has gone down in history for claiming the position of emperor of Rome for a short three-month period in 69 CE. This was during the year of volatility that followed the death of the last Julio-Claudian emperor, Nero, known as the Year of the Four Emperors. A...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Does Marcus Matter?
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Ancient World’s Greatest War
10 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Why Celebrimbor Fell but Boromir Conquered: the Moral Universe of Tolkien This week (and probably next) I want to talk a bit more Tolkien, but in a somewhat different vein...
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This week (and probably next) I want to talk a bit more Tolkien, but in a somewhat different vein from normal. Rather than discussing the historicity of Tolkien’s world or adaptations of it, I want to take a moment to discuss some of the themes of Tolkien’s work, which express...
Open Culture
Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Who Was the Greatest Scientific Mind in History Neil deGrasse Tyson has spent his career talking up not just science itself, but also its...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson has spent his career talking up not just science itself, but also its practitioners. If asked to name the greatest scientist of all time, one might expect him to need a minute to think about it — or even to find himself unable to choose. But that’s hardly...
TheCollector
Marina Abramović Unveils Interactive Digital Art Project Starting this summer, Marina Abramović will release a series of NFT drops as part of a new project...
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Starting this summer, Marina Abramović will release a series of NFT drops as part of a new project called Marina Abramović Element (MAE). According to a recent press release, the project was born from the artist’s interest in connecting the inherent immateriality of performance...
TheCollector
How Pegasus Sprang from Medusa and Soared to Olympus The immortal, white-winged stallion Pegasus is one of the most iconic creatures in Greek mythology....
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The immortal, white-winged stallion Pegasus is one of the most iconic creatures in Greek mythology. He was born from the tragic and brutal union of a god, a gorgon, and a hero’s sword. While Pegasus is primarily remembered as the devoted companion of the hero Bellerophon, his...
Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly... And then what?
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TheCollector
A Guide to the Best Historic Sites in South Korea Though many visit South Korea for its K-Dramas and K-Pop, the peninsula and islands also feature...
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Though many visit South Korea for its K-Dramas and K-Pop, the peninsula and islands also feature numerous cultural charms and historic sites as well. South Korea has an expansive history, and tales of monks, soldiers, indigenous peoples, and royalty linger in these locations....
Flashbak
US Atlas for the Blind, 1837 The 1837 Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind was made to help blind children...
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The 1837 Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind was made to help blind children visualise geography. Supplied to children at the New England Institute for the Education of the Blind in Boston this extraordinary atlas features heavy paper embossed with...
TheCollector
The Philosopher of Nature: Who Was Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling? Schelling is among the most influential German philosophers in history. As a post-Kantian thinker,...
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Schelling is among the most influential German philosophers in history. As a post-Kantian thinker, he is considered a midpoint between the Fichtean and Hegelian philosophical systems along the development of German Idealism. Unlike his predecessors, Schelling placed nature at the...
Patterns in Humanity
2024 in writing A brief recap of my 2024 posts
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TheCollector
What Is the Book of Jasher and Why Is It Not in the Bible? The Bible mentions the Book of Jasher twice. The Book of Jasher was lost sometime in antiquity, and...
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The Bible mentions the Book of Jasher twice. The Book of Jasher was lost sometime in antiquity, and no mention of it appears in the Dead Sea Scrolls, early Jewish or Christian tradition, or early Rabbinic writings. During the Middle Ages, a time notorious for people passing off...
TheCollector
9 Historical Sites to Visit in Thailand From the mountains of the north to the beautiful beaches of the south, Thailand is packed with...
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From the mountains of the north to the beautiful beaches of the south, Thailand is packed with stunning places to experience. If you’re a history lover, you’ll find no shortage of palaces, ruins, and ancient cities along the way. Plus, most of these sites are easily accessible...
Overcoming Bias
Decision Selection Bias As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of...
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As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of its most technical issues, one that @metaproph3t also discussed recently: decision selection bias.
TheCollector
What Were the Lyles Station Radiation Experiments? There is a painful history embedded in the southern part of Indiana, where the horrific Lyles...
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There is a painful history embedded in the southern part of Indiana, where the horrific Lyles radiation experiments took place. A handful of students from the Lyles Consolidated School were picked out at random and subjected to unusually high levels of radiation, under the...
Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat. A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
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Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
TheCollector
10 Famous Japanese Artists Who Achieved Greatness From fascinating woodblock prints and beautiful landscape paintings to eye-catching sculptures,...
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From fascinating woodblock prints and beautiful landscape paintings to eye-catching sculptures, Japanese artists have created monumental pieces that have transformed the world of art. These famous artists have channeled their creativity, culture, and environment to create some of...
TheCollector
9 Historical Sites & Towns You Cannot Miss in Romania Romania is Europe’s 12th largest and 6th most populous country. The region, which features the...
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Romania is Europe’s 12th largest and 6th most populous country. The region, which features the Carpathian Mountains and Danube River, has been settled since the Lower Paleolithic. Over the centuries, Romania was part of the Roman, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires. Between...
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Marvels of the Universe, 1912 – Curious Scientific Illustrations From A Compendium of Life First published in 1912, readers could learn all things about everything in Marvels of the Universe...
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First published in 1912, readers could learn all things about everything in Marvels of the Universe : a popular work on the marvels of the heavens, the earth, plant life, animal life, the mighty deep. It was published as a periodical in London by Hutchinson and Company, founded...
Flashbak
Marcia Resnick: Re-Visions, 1978 “In 1975, while driving my car in Manhattan, I was in an accident and my entire life flashed before...
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“In 1975, while driving my car in Manhattan, I was in an accident and my entire life flashed before me. When I awoke in the hospital, I began to think about all of the events which led to my being there.” – Marcia Resnick on who she was inspired to create Re-Visions   In 1975, …...
TheCollector
What is the Poorest Country in Africa? From an economic perspective, Africa is the poorest continent. Almost half of all people living in...
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From an economic perspective, Africa is the poorest continent. Almost half of all people living in Sub-Saharan Africa live below the poverty line. The causes for this dynamic are legion. A large portion of them can be attributed to foreign intervention in the form of colonialism...
TheCollector
The Great Greek Revolt Against Macedonia After Alexander’s Death More than a decade after Greek freedom was said to have died at the hands of the Macedonians at the...
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More than a decade after Greek freedom was said to have died at the hands of the Macedonians at the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BCE), a new Greek alliance challenged Macedonian dominance. A Greek revolt was triggered by events shortly before Alexander the Great’s death in 323 BCE,...
Flashbak
Phenomena of Materialisation : Investigating The Naked Psychic Eva Carrière “Miss Eva prepared the heads before every séance, and endeavoured to make them unrecognizable. A...
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“Miss Eva prepared the heads before every séance, and endeavoured to make them unrecognizable. A clean-shaven face was decorated with a beard. Grey hairs became black curls, a broad forehead was made into a narrow one. But, in spite of all her endeavours, she could not obliterate...
The Scholar's Stage
Uber is a Poor Replacement for Utopia Two items of interest passed through my feeds this week. The first is the podcast Marc Andreesen and...
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Two items of interest passed through my feeds this week. The first is the podcast Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz released to explain why they are endorsing Trump for president. The second is an evocative and viral internet advertisement for careersbuilttolast.com, a slick...
Flashbak
Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
TheCollector
Cinco de Mayo: An American Celebration with a Mexican Twist? The celebration of Cinco de Mayo is unique: a civic holiday from one country that emigrated and...
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The celebration of Cinco de Mayo is unique: a civic holiday from one country that emigrated and found a home—and a more enthusiastic crowd—in another nation. It’s not an official holiday in the United States, but it almost feels like one. How is it possible that Cinco de Mayo, a...
TheCollector
Why Is the Bolshoi Ballet So Famous? A Brief History For almost 250 years, the Bolshoi Ballet has remained synonymous with the art of dance. As one of...
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For almost 250 years, the Bolshoi Ballet has remained synonymous with the art of dance. As one of the most celebrated companies, the Bolshoi Ballet has roots in eighteenth-century imperial Russia. Beloved by Romanov tsars and Soviet leaders, the Bolshoi Ballet has a reputation...
TheCollector
5 Must-Know Minds of Greek Philosophy Mankind has always asked questions about the world, existence, life and death. However, it was in...
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Mankind has always asked questions about the world, existence, life and death. However, it was in Ancient Greece that the systematic and rational approach to knowledge known as philosophy was born. What was, up until that point in history, mixed with myths and superstitions, now...
TheCollector
Director of Dreams: Who Is Akira Kurosawa? Today, the world knows Japanese cinema. Whether anime, 1950s Godzilla movies, or rogue samurai,...
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Today, the world knows Japanese cinema. Whether anime, 1950s Godzilla movies, or rogue samurai, Japanese movies have undoubtedly caused a splash the international realm of modern and contemporary film. Master Director, Akira Kurosawa, etched his mark deeply in his home country of...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
A Collection of...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part II: Starting at the End This is the second part of our series (I) discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage,...
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This is the second part of our series (I) discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. As we’ve discussed, pre-modern peasant farmers make up the vast majority of human beings in in the past. Last...
Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor? Stock vs flow approach.
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African History...
The currencies and monetary systems of pre-colonial Africa A bewildering variety of currencies circulated freely in the various states and societies of Africa...
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A bewildering variety of currencies circulated freely in the various states and societies of Africa during the pre-colonial period.
Flashbak
The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat.  “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history. Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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The Universe of...
Leopards, faces, etc. I expect we in the United States are about to see a wave of domestic terrorism unprecendented since...
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I expect we in the United States are about to see a wave of domestic terrorism unprecendented since the 1870s. In the wake of the Civil War, white Southerners used systematic terrorism to continue white supremacy. If a black person became too prosperous, masked thugs would come...
Open Culture
The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets... For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s...
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For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s just-published list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century will summon dim memories of many a once-unignorable critical fuss. At one time or another over the past 25...
TheCollector
What Is Lev Vygotsky’s Revolutionary Educational Philosophy? Lev Vygotsky has totally changed our understanding of how we learn and grow through his pioneering...
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Lev Vygotsky has totally changed our understanding of how we learn and grow through his pioneering educational philosophy. The cognitive abilities of people are shaped by socializing, language, and culture. In looking into things like the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) in...
CrimethInc.
"The Only Immigrant Trying to Steal My Job Is Elon Musk" : A Bus Driver's Perspective on Elon Musk's... In the following narrative, a bus driver describes how the cuts that Elon Musk is carrying out in...
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In the following narrative, a bus driver describes how the cuts that Elon Musk is carrying out in the federal government are affecting ordinary public transit workers. There is a poetic opposition between the figure of the anonymous bus driver and Elon Musk, the billionaire car...
TheCollector
Long-Lost City Ruins Likely Tied to Alexander the Great Once believed to be an ancient military outpost, an archaeological site in North Macedonia may...
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Once believed to be an ancient military outpost, an archaeological site in North Macedonia may actually be the remains of Lyncus, the lost capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis. Settled in the 7th century BCE, Lyncus was once an important hub for the Upper Macedonian Kingdom....
Classical Wisdom
Weekly Wisdom Quiz Ancient Egypt, Diogenes, and more!
2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live? Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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TheCollector
Who Was Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Übermensch”? As one of the most influential early 20th-century philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche comes burdened...
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As one of the most influential early 20th-century philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche comes burdened with a controversial legacy. His elitist and anti-democratic ideas were adopted, and distorted, by figures such as Adolf Hitler. Indeed, few thinkers in history have so utterly...
TheCollector
Knights Templar & the Creation of Modern Banking Of all the knightly orders born of the Crusades, none are as well known or as heavily mythologized...
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Of all the knightly orders born of the Crusades, none are as well known or as heavily mythologized as the Knights Templar. From Dan Brown conspiracy thriller novels like The Da Vinci Code to the best-selling Assassin’s Creed video game franchise, the Knights Templar have long...
The Universe of...
Another corner of Pennsylvania [ Previously: [1] [2] [3] ] A couple of years back I wrote: I live in southeastern Pennsylvania, so...
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[ Previously: [1] [2] [3] ] A couple of years back I wrote: I live in southeastern Pennsylvania, so the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Delaware triple point must be somewhere nearby. I sat up and got my phone so I could look at the map, and felt foolish. As you can see, the triple...
Overcoming Bias
Details Avoid Bias Long ago I noted:
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