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On the Spot: Annabel Teh Gallop On the Spot: Annabel Teh Gallop JamesHoare Mon, 03/17/2025 - 08:24
17th Mar 2025
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On the Spot: Annabel Teh Gallop

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17th Mar 2025
On the Spot: Annabel Teh Gallop JamesHoare Mon, 03/17/2025 - 08:24
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Global crime How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
25th Nov 2024
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Global crime

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25th Nov 2024
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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15 Medieval Phrases That Prove Old English Slang Was Funnier and Grosser Than Ours Language is alive. It changes and evolves with the cultures that use it, reflecting their values and...
1st Dec 2025
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15 Medieval Phrases That Prove Old English Slang Was Funnier and Grosser Than Ours

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1st Dec 2025
Language is alive. It changes and evolves with the cultures that use it, reflecting their values and unique aspects of daily life. Considering how the slang of younger generations can seem indecipherable to older folks, it’s no surprise that the English spoken in Medieval times...
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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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Thoth and Khepri Thoth and Khepri Dean Nicholas Tue, 10/30/2018 - 00:00
30th Oct 2018
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Thoth and Khepri

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30th Oct 2018
Thoth and Khepri Dean Nicholas Tue, 10/30/2018 - 00:00
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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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The Route of History Geology and empire collide on the Danube
1st Feb 2026
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The Route of History

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1st Feb 2026
Geology and empire collide on the Danube
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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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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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Did Israel's War Kill Zionism? I recently stumbled upon an analysis of the Iran-Israel war that I found to be one of the most...
1st Jul 2025
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Did Israel's War Kill Zionism?

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1st Jul 2025
I recently stumbled upon an analysis of the Iran-Israel war that I found to be one of the most thought-provoking I’d heard to date.
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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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Summary of changes for September Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
3rd Oct 2021
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Summary of changes for September

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3rd Oct 2021
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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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...
31st Aug 2022
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Summary of changes for August

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31st Aug 2022
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...
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France’s Little Corner of North America In the 17th century, France had a huge empire of possessions and colonies in North America. Today,...
3rd Mar 2026
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France’s Little Corner of North America

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3rd Mar 2026
In the 17th century, France had a huge empire of possessions and colonies in North America. Today, the French flag flies over just a tiny sliver. St Pierre in 1887 photo from WikiCommons The French motive for exploring the New World was the same as Columbus’s had been–they hoped...
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Fireside Friday, April 4, 2025 Fireside this week! I am still a bit behind after attending the annual meeting of the Society for...
4th Apr 2025
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Fireside Friday, April 4, 2025

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4th Apr 2025
Fireside this week! I am still a bit behind after attending the annual meeting of the Society for Military History – conferences always leave me a bit tired and slow to get back to writing, even as they also stimulate my thinking – so the conclusion of our look at Rings of Power...
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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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7th Jan 2026
Incorporating the destruction of politics.
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Feels Gone Wrong The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me...
5th Jan 2025
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Feels Gone Wrong

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5th Jan 2025
The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me the huge emotional appeal of becoming a musician like them.
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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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3rd Jul 2024
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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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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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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The Rise And Fall of Abstraction Most animals see the world around them in pretty concrete terms.
3rd Dec 2025
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The Rise And Fall of Abstraction

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3rd Dec 2025
Most animals see the world around them in pretty concrete terms.
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A Brief History of the Hungarian Soviet Republic The idea of a communist Hungary is usually associated with the Cold War that arose post-World War...
1st Apr 2025
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A Brief History of the Hungarian Soviet Republic

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1st Apr 2025
The idea of a communist Hungary is usually associated with the Cold War that arose post-World War II. Hungary, however, had a brush with communist leadership several decades before, in the aftermath of the First World War.   The short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic ultimately...
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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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Voices from the Uprising in Indonesia : Affan Kurniawan Lives on in the Streets A wave of protest exploded across Indonesia at the end of August 2025. In this report, we present an...
4th Sep 2025
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Voices from the Uprising in Indonesia : Affan Kurniawan Lives on in the Streets

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4th Sep 2025
A wave of protest exploded across Indonesia at the end of August 2025. In this report, we present an interview with an imprisoned Indonesian anarchist author along with various statements from anarchist groups that have reached English-speaking outlets since the uprising...
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America’s most beautiful city Cavalier Charleston
5th Nov 2025
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America’s most beautiful city

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5th Nov 2025
Cavalier Charleston
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and... For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
7th Jun 2024
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and Clients

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7th Jun 2024
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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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...
6th Dec 2024
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I

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6th Dec 2024
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...
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Read Me Historian and author Patrick McCray shares stories about writing his new book that explores a...
11th Feb 2026
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Read Me

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11th Feb 2026
Historian and author Patrick McCray shares stories about writing his new book that explores a variety of books about computing. The post Read Me appeared first on CHM.
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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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Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023 Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
4th Aug 2023
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Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023

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4th Aug 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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The 5 Most Significant Non-Abrahamic World Religions and Philosophies The term “Abrahamic Religion” refers to the shared figure of Abraham, patriarch of the major...
1st Nov 2025
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The 5 Most Significant Non-Abrahamic World Religions and Philosophies

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1st Nov 2025
The term “Abrahamic Religion” refers to the shared figure of Abraham, patriarch of the major monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Abraham’s presence in the holy texts of monotheism signifies shared ancestry and a degree of commonality. Many contemporary...
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Fireside Friday, February 6, 2026 (On Ancient Migrations) Hey folks, Fireside this week! I have ended up a bit behind in my work and as always it is the blog...
6th Feb 2026
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Fireside Friday, February 6, 2026 (On Ancient Migrations)

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6th Feb 2026
Hey folks, Fireside this week! I have ended up a bit behind in my work and as always it is the blog that much suffer first. In this case, we have in two weeks twice managed to have snow which only increased my workload (it didn’t cancel any of my classes, but did require me …...
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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Va: Putting It Together This is the first half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va) of our apparently...
8th Aug 2026
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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Va: Putting It Together

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8th Aug 2026
This is the first half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va) of our apparently five-part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized, in particular exploring the principle that armies cannot help but recreate their civilian...
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Seven books I keep close because I love them The bookshelf by my elbow, the one that I can reach without getting up, has seven books on it, not...
3rd Aug 2026
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Seven books I keep close because I love them

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3rd Aug 2026
The bookshelf by my elbow, the one that I can reach without getting up, has seven books on it, not necessarily the ones I look in the most, but the ones whose emanations I most hope will infuse me as I write. Roget's Thesaurus (4th edition) The one I actually refer to most often...
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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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a home for pino We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
11th Aug 2019
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a home for pino

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11th Aug 2019
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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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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2nd Oct 2024
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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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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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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Summary of changes for September 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
2nd Oct 2023
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Summary of changes for September 2023

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2nd Oct 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs. Niju,...
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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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19th Mar 2024
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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Wool Aliens of the British Empire Wool Aliens of the British Empire JamesHoare Tue, 04/01/2025 - 09:07
1st Apr 2025
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Wool Aliens of the British Empire

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1st Apr 2025
Wool Aliens of the British Empire JamesHoare Tue, 04/01/2025 - 09:07
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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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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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The White Masks of Gabon: “Foreign” symbolism in Traditional African sculpture. Among the most refined works of African art are the distinctive white masks of southern Gabon in...
2nd Aug 2026
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The White Masks of Gabon: “Foreign” symbolism in Traditional African sculpture.

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2nd Aug 2026
Among the most refined works of African art are the distinctive white masks of southern Gabon in Central Africa.
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Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters “If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you...
1st Jan 2025
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Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters

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1st Jan 2025
“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with nothing beneath it?” — Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes     Volker Hermes lampoons traditional...
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How many are criminals? Probably more than you think...
11th Aug 2025
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How many are criminals?

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11th Aug 2025
Probably more than you think...
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The myth of the Hamitic race in religious and pseudo-scientific literature: an African perspective In 1845, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed that American slaveholders appealed to the...
1st Mar 2026
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The myth of the Hamitic race in religious and pseudo-scientific literature: an African perspective

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1st Mar 2026
In 1845, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed that American slaveholders appealed to the biblical claim that ‘God cursed Ham’ as a theological justification for slavery, an argument he rejected as fundamentally unscriptural.
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The rise of life expectancy Illustrated and explained
2nd Jul 2025
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The rise of life expectancy

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2nd Jul 2025
Illustrated and explained
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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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28th Feb 2025
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The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE) Journal of African cities: chapter 15
6th Oct 2024
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The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)

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6th Oct 2024
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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To Tip or Not To Tip: A Victorian Traveller’s Perspective Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how...
6th Jan 2025
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To Tip or Not To Tip: A Victorian Traveller’s Perspective

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6th Jan 2025
Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how much/whether to tip rumble on, but they are not new. Even in the 18th and 19th centuries, travellers were complaining about the amount of unwanted or unexpected extras they had to pay...
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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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1st Jun 2026
Featuring my recent appearance on Louise Perry's podcast
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What did Xi, Modi and Putin really discuss in Tianjin? Here are Xi Jinping’s concluding words to the speech he just gave in front of Narendra Modi,...
4th Sep 2025
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What did Xi, Modi and Putin really discuss in Tianjin?

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4th Sep 2025
Here are Xi Jinping’s concluding words to the speech he just gave in front of Narendra Modi, Vladimir Putin and some 24 other heads of states representing almost half the world’s population: "Where will prevails, no boundary holds" (basically the Chinese version of “when there’s...
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Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
2nd Oct 2024
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Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges

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2nd Oct 2024
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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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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1st Mar 2026
Ancient Secrets of Success?
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Picking Fights : Seventeen Years of Organizing in the Seattle Solidarity Network In the following reflections, participants in the Seattle Solidarity Network share what they have...
10th Jul 2025
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Picking Fights : Seventeen Years of Organizing in the Seattle Solidarity Network

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10th Jul 2025
In the following reflections, participants in the Seattle Solidarity Network share what they have learned in the course of seventeen years of experimenting with tactics via which workers and tenants can act together against bosses and landlords. For an action-obsessed group like...
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Collections: The Strange Armor of Dragon Age: The Veilguard This week we’re going to have a bit of fun looking at some of the interesting armor choices for the...
7th Feb 2025
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Collections: The Strange Armor of Dragon Age: The Veilguard

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7th Feb 2025
This week we’re going to have a bit of fun looking at some of the interesting armor choices for the recent Dragon Age: The Veilguard. In a way, this is an extension of the post on “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor,” because I think Veilguard provides a pretty exceptional...
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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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Five Fundamentals of Chinese Grand Strategy Last month Civic Future invited me to join a panel at their annual policy forum. The topic: what the...
17th Aug 2024
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Five Fundamentals of Chinese Grand Strategy

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17th Aug 2024
Last month Civic Future invited me to join a panel at their annual policy forum. The topic: what the United Kingdom should do about China. As I am neither a British citizen nor an expert in British affairs, I thought it impolitic to lecture my hosts on how they should be...
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A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927. Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
4th Jun 2023
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A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.

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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Perspectives and outcomes of Africa's age of exploration Nearly a century after the Kushite envoys of Queen Amanirenas visited the court of Augustus in...
3rd Aug 2025
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Perspectives and outcomes of Africa's age of exploration

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Nearly a century after the Kushite envoys of Queen Amanirenas visited the court of Augustus in 22-20BC, a pair of Roman centurions was sent on a reconnaissance mission to Kush in 61-63 CE to gather intelligence for a planned campaign against the kingdom by the Emperor Nero.
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The facts of the European (EU27) income convergence How is Europe becoming more equal
2nd Apr 2026
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The facts of the European (EU27) income convergence

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How is Europe becoming more equal
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Why did clothing become boring? An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
4th Dec 2024
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Why did clothing become boring?

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An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
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Spacewalks: Poems for the Moon Age (1971) So to keep up with my strange postings, today is strange (bad?) space poetry. I like the drawings...
5th Dec 2025
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Spacewalks: Poems for the Moon Age (1971)

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5th Dec 2025
So to keep up with my strange postings, today is strange (bad?) space poetry. I like the drawings that are VERY late 60s with spacecraft and other images mixed together. I also like his approach to using our Space Race as an inspiration to think about what people had done and...
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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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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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Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery JamesHoare Tue, 05/06/2025 - 08:55
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Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery

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Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery JamesHoare Tue, 05/06/2025 - 08:55
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Secret state The Nottingham Inquiry
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Secret state

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The Nottingham Inquiry
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Watch the First 2+ Hours of MTV’s Inaugural Broadcast (August 1, 1981) Not everyone on August 1, 1981 had a VCR at their disposal, and not everybody stayed up until...
3rd Feb 2025
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Watch the First 2+ Hours of MTV’s Inaugural Broadcast (August 1, 1981)

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3rd Feb 2025
Not everyone on August 1, 1981 had a VCR at their disposal, and not everybody stayed up until midnight. But fortunately at least one person did, in order to tape the first two hours of a new cable channel called MTV: Music Television. Did they know it would be historic? MTV...
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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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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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How Themistocles Used a Prophecy to Defeat the Persians In 480 BC, a colossal Persian army crossed the Hellespont. Led by the power-hungry King Xerxes I,...
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How Themistocles Used a Prophecy to Defeat the Persians

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In 480 BC, a colossal Persian army crossed the Hellespont. Led by the power-hungry King Xerxes I, hundreds of thousands of troops traveled towards Greece’s heartland in search of vengeance for a disastrous defeat ten years prior. As their customs demanded, the Athenians sought...
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1993: Mosaic Launches and the Web Becomes Open Source Original NCSA Mosaic Version 1.0 web browser home page; via NCSA. On 14 January 1993, Marc...
8th Dec 2021
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1993: Mosaic Launches and the Web Becomes Open Source

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Original NCSA Mosaic Version 1.0 web browser home page; via NCSA. On 14 January 1993, Marc Andreessen put a call out on the WWW-Talk mailing list for people to test a new WWW browser in development. It was initially “hypertext only,” he wrote, “but will soon have multimedia...
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Summary of changes for April 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Apr 2023
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Summary of changes for April 2023

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1st Apr 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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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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Digg and the Power Laws of Silicon Valley in 2006 In June 2006 I flew to San Francisco for my third US trip. I arrived at SFO just after midday on...
9th Jan 2024
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Digg and the Power Laws of Silicon Valley in 2006

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9th Jan 2024
In June 2006 I flew to San Francisco for my third US trip. I arrived at SFO just after midday on Monday, June 19, after another sleepless twelve-hour flight from New Zealand. Mike Arrington was hosting me at his place in Atherton again, for which I was grateful. I’d also asked if...
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Immigrant assimilation in Denmark A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
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Immigrant assimilation in Denmark

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17th May 2024
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie (A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
5th Nov 2024
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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie

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5th Nov 2024
(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...
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Europe on fire UK News Report #7: July 2026
2nd Aug 2026
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Europe on fire

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UK News Report #7: July 2026
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My Interview With Tim Berners-Lee, June 2009 Tim Berners-Lee and Richard MacManus, June 2009. During my recent trip to Boston, I had the...
8th Jul 2009
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My Interview With Tim Berners-Lee, June 2009

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8th Jul 2009
Tim Berners-Lee and Richard MacManus, June 2009. During my recent trip to Boston, I had the opportunity to visit MIT. At the end of a long day of meetings with various MIT tech masterminds, I made my way to the funny shaped building where the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and...
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Thursday discussion post It’s 2026.
1st Jan 2026
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Thursday discussion post

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It’s 2026.
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Rare 1960s Photos Offer a Fascinating Look at Swimsuit Fashion of the Era Fashion has a way of reflecting the world around it, and in the 1960s, the world was moving fast....
3rd Jun 2026
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Rare 1960s Photos Offer a Fascinating Look at Swimsuit Fashion of the Era

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3rd Jun 2026
Fashion has a way of reflecting the world around it, and in the 1960s, the world was moving fast. The postwar economic boom had put more disposable income in more pockets than any previous generation had known. Vacation culture was expanding, domestic air travel was becoming...
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Cultural Scenario Probabilities On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
1st Dec 2024
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Cultural Scenario Probabilities

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1st Dec 2024
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
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Centuries of Childhood The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
11th Jun 2024
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Centuries of Childhood

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11th Jun 2024
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?
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What Punk Culture Really Looked Like in Its Prime: Rare Photos from the 1980s Photographs have a way of collapsing time, and the ones taken inside the 1980s punk scene do exactly...
4th Apr 2026
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What Punk Culture Really Looked Like in Its Prime: Rare Photos from the 1980s

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4th Apr 2026
Photographs have a way of collapsing time, and the ones taken inside the 1980s punk scene do exactly that, pulling you into smoky venues, street corners, and basement shows where a subculture was busy defining itself in real time. These images do not show a trend or a passing...
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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor 2.0 Looks to the Sea Marine science and the blue economy are emerging as a new area of China-Pakistan cooperation,...
yesterday
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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor 2.0 Looks to the Sea

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Marine science and the blue economy are emerging as a new area of China-Pakistan cooperation, linking Gwadar with research, coastal industries and environmental management
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A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD Journal of African cities chapter 6
5th Mar 2023
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A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD

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Journal of African cities chapter 6
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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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Thomas Jefferson and the American genius
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What the mudslide along China-Nepal border tells us about Himalayan Risk What we know about the disaster, why it was so hard to predict, and the challenge of building a...
3rd Sep 2026
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What the mudslide along China-Nepal border tells us about Himalayan Risk

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3rd Sep 2026
What we know about the disaster, why it was so hard to predict, and the challenge of building a cross-border warning system
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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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Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
10th Nov 2021
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Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century

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10th Nov 2021
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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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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The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously...
5th Jan 2025
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The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa

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5th Jan 2025
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously demonstrated by the golden pilgrimage of Mali's Mansa Musa in 1324, Islam had only arrived in the region at the close of the 1st millennium.
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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...
1st Mar 2021
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Summary of changes for March

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1st Mar 2021
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...
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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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‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review ‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review JamesHoare Mon, 08/04/2025 - 09:08
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‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review

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‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review JamesHoare Mon, 08/04/2025 - 09:08
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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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On the spread of Traditional African religions during the pre-colonial period. Among the corpus of terracotta figurines discovered in the Greco-Egyptian city of Alexandria dating...
2nd Feb 2025
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On the spread of Traditional African religions during the pre-colonial period.

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Among the corpus of terracotta figurines discovered in the Greco-Egyptian city of Alexandria dating back to the 2nd century BC is a fine clay vessel in the form of a Nubian priestess of Isis of Philae, who is depicted in a kneeling position while performing a Greek-type mortuary...
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Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work? The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?

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The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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Who Was Julian? Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
1st Nov 2023
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Who Was Julian?

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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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It Gets Worse. This time, there will be consequences.
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It Gets Worse.

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This time, there will be consequences.
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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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Twitter in 2007: The Open Platform That Wasn't The first wave of people to join Twitter was in March 2007, when it became the trendy app at the...
25th May 2023
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Twitter in 2007: The Open Platform That Wasn't

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25th May 2023
The first wave of people to join Twitter was in March 2007, when it became the trendy app at the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. I hadn’t gone to SXSW that year, but I arrived in San Francisco the month after for Web 2.0 Expo. I don’t recall who told me about Twitter (it...
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FREE Obsolete Sony book for paid subscribers A DRM-free digital copy of Sony Year by Year, and a thank-you for year one.
3rd May 2026
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FREE Obsolete Sony book for paid subscribers

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3rd May 2026
A DRM-free digital copy of Sony Year by Year, and a thank-you for year one.
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Florida’s Barker Gang Shootout In January 1935, gangster “Ma” Barker and her son Fred were killed by the FBI in a multi-hour...
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Florida’s Barker Gang Shootout

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6th May 2025
In January 1935, gangster “Ma” Barker and her son Fred were killed by the FBI in a multi-hour shootout in the little town of Ocklawaha FL. Arizona “Arrie” Clark was born in the rural town of Ash Grove MO in October 1873, where she played the fiddle and sang in the local church...
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The most important AI story in the world is happening in a place you’ve never heard of Have you ever heard of Ulanqab prefecture, a small (by China’s standards) jurisdiction of 1.5...
3 weeks ago
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The most important AI story in the world is happening in a place you’ve never heard of

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Have you ever heard of Ulanqab prefecture, a small (by China’s standards) jurisdiction of 1.5 million people lost in the middle of the Inner Mongolian steppe?
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Nobody likes a party crasher Trump has ruined America’s 250th anniversary. I’m still celebrating.
1st Jul 2026
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Nobody likes a party crasher

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1st Jul 2026
Trump has ruined America’s 250th anniversary. I’m still celebrating.
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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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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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On 17th century "cocaine" A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
9th Oct 2024
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On 17th century "cocaine"

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9th Oct 2024
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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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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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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Sony 80 Is Almost Here On June 23rd, the next ObsoleteSony book launches on Kickstarter.
16th Jun 2026
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Sony 80 Is Almost Here

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16th Jun 2026
On June 23rd, the next ObsoleteSony book launches on Kickstarter.
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Summary of changes for February 2026 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Mar 2026
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Summary of changes for February 2026

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1st Mar 2026
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February. Wiki, updated knots with a figure-eight follow-through knot, also, Pino has a new headsail! Pavol, created a volume control tool. Adelie, made it so images are drawn...
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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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9th Apr 2025
Persistence and the Not-So Melting Pot
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OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans
31st Jul 2025
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OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery

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31st Jul 2025
Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans
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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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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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Just ANSWER THE QUESTION Here's a Math SE pathology that bugs me. OP will ask "I'm trying to prove that groups and are...
5th Nov 2024
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Just ANSWER THE QUESTION

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Here's a Math SE pathology that bugs me. OP will ask "I'm trying to prove that groups and are isomorphic, I constructed this bijection but I see that it's not a homomorphism. Is it sufficient, or do I need to find a bijective homomorphism?" And respondent will reply in the...
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How our toy octopuses got revenge on a Philadelphia traffic court judge [ Content warning: possibly amusing, but silly and pointless ] My wife Lorrie wrote this on 31...
25th Apr 2025
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How our toy octopuses got revenge on a Philadelphia traffic court judge

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[ Content warning: possibly amusing, but silly and pointless ] My wife Lorrie wrote this on 31 January 2013: I got an e-mail from Husband titled, "The mills of Fenchurch grind slow, but they grind exceeding small." This silliness, which is off-the-charts silly, is going to...
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The ideology of Donald J. Trump Does Donald J.
12th Nov 2024
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The ideology of Donald J. Trump

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Does Donald J.
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction...
1st May 2024
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks

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Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’  – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
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Forgotten Cities of the Swahili coast: A history of Pemba in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (ca.... Journal of African Cities: chapter 19
1st Feb 2026
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Forgotten Cities of the Swahili coast: A history of Pemba in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (ca. 600-1822 CE)

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Journal of African Cities: chapter 19
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Republicans have a big midterm cash advantage Democrats have alienated billionaires without winning back the working class.
1st Sep 2026
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Republicans have a big midterm cash advantage

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Democrats have alienated billionaires without winning back the working class.
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Weekend Roundup Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Weekend Roundup

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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Trump and the Rise of Asia My interview with "Atlantico"
3rd Dec 2024
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Trump and the Rise of Asia

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My interview with "Atlantico"
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How 1983 Changed the Shape of the Walkman The year Sony began breaking the Walkman into smaller, stranger, and more personal forms.
7th Apr 2026
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How 1983 Changed the Shape of the Walkman

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The year Sony began breaking the Walkman into smaller, stranger, and more personal forms.
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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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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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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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Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something...
4th Jul 2025
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Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship

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4th Jul 2025
As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something about the United States, this time a brief discussion of the nature of civil-military relations in the United States. Civil-military relations (typically shortened to ‘civ-mil’ or...
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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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4th Oct 2023
In politics, well, it depends.
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911) The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
2nd Dec 2024
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)

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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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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...
8th Jun 2021
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Summary of changes for May

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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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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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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WW1’s Togoland Campaign Some of the first shots in World War One were fired not in France but in Africa.. The Khra River...
1st Sep 2026
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WW1’s Togoland Campaign

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1st Sep 2026
Some of the first shots in World War One were fired not in France but in Africa.. The Khra River Bridge in Togoland, photo from Wiki Commons. In the later half of the 19th century, Germany and Great Britain became global rivals. The British already had an empire which stretched...
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The Trung Sisters Rebellion The Trung sisters led a rebellion in Vietnam in the first century CE and became symbols of national...
6th Jan 2026
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The Trung Sisters Rebellion

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6th Jan 2026
The Trung sisters led a rebellion in Vietnam in the first century CE and became symbols of national unity. In 111 BCE, an army from China invaded the area to their south that is now known as northern Vietnam and conquered it. As was their usual routine, they appointed some of the...
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Lou Reed and the 2006 Web 2.0 Summit In early November I was back in Silicon Valley to attend the annual Web 2.0 Conference, now renamed...
6th Feb 2024
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Lou Reed and the 2006 Web 2.0 Summit

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6th Feb 2024
In early November I was back in Silicon Valley to attend the annual Web 2.0 Conference, now renamed Web 2.0 Summit, and with the theme of “Disruption & Opportunity.” The name change was because the organizers, O’Reilly Media and John Battelle, were expanding and had added a...
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
13th Feb 2024
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism

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13th Feb 2024
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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Modern Worries Hope is more fragile than fear.
1st Sep 2026
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Modern Worries

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1st Sep 2026
Hope is more fragile than fear.
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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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26th Nov 2025
The long-run decline of violence in Europe, and why poverty is not responsible for violent crime
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A Historic Pixel Art Exhibition In 1981, a groundbreaking show featuring digital art on monitors connected to framebuffers and a...
10th Apr 2026
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A Historic Pixel Art Exhibition

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10th Apr 2026
In 1981, a groundbreaking show featuring digital art on monitors connected to framebuffers and a computer made history. This is the story of the small team that pulled it off. The post A Historic Pixel Art Exhibition appeared first on CHM.
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Not Getting It Together. As shown by the Iran crisis.
1st Apr 2026
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Not Getting It Together.

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As shown by the Iran crisis.
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A view of the world After the Global Financial Crisis, the World Bank got more much involved in South-East Asian...
4th May 2025
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A view of the world

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4th May 2025
After the Global Financial Crisis, the World Bank got more much involved in South-East Asian countries than before.
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book “I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
1st Jan 2024
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book

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“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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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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1996: JavaScript Annoyances and Meeting the DOM “Hi, I’m Brendan Eich, welcome to my homepage.” Via Wayback Machine. The Netscape Navigator 2.0...
5th Jan 2021
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1996: JavaScript Annoyances and Meeting the DOM

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“Hi, I’m Brendan Eich, welcome to my homepage.” Via Wayback Machine. The Netscape Navigator 2.0 browser was finally released in March 1996, almost a year after Brendan Eich joined Netscape with the express purpose of creating a scripting language for the web. He’d developed the...
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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...
1st Jan 2023
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Summary of changes for December

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1st Jan 2023
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 100r.ca, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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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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3rd Apr 2025
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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The Phantom of Polarisation Do people actually disagree that much?
1st Nov 2024
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The Phantom of Polarisation

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1st Nov 2024
Do people actually disagree that much?
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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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Why China Filed Plans for 203,000 Satellites The strategic thinking behind Beijing’s record ITU filings, what they mean in practice for everyday...
15th Jan 2026
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Why China Filed Plans for 203,000 Satellites

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15th Jan 2026
The strategic thinking behind Beijing’s record ITU filings, what they mean in practice for everyday connectivity, and the unavoidable global competition for orbital and spectrum resources.
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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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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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To Struggle Is to Remember : January 18: Day of the Forest Defender Three years have passed since Georgia State Patrolmen Jerry Parrish, Bryland Myers, Jonathan...
2nd Jan 2026
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To Struggle Is to Remember : January 18: Day of the Forest Defender

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2nd Jan 2026
Three years have passed since Georgia State Patrolmen Jerry Parrish, Bryland Myers, Jonathan Salcedo, Ronaldo Kegel, Royce Zah, and Mark Jonathan Lamb entered the Weelaunee Forest in southeast Atlanta with their guns drawn. They shot and killed Manuel Teran, known to fellow...
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2026 CHM Awards Ceremony CHM honored five new Fellows and the inaugural Silicon Valley Laureate at a gala celebration that...
1st May 2026
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2026 CHM Awards Ceremony

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1st May 2026
CHM honored five new Fellows and the inaugural Silicon Valley Laureate at a gala celebration that highlighted the teamwork and collaboration behind lasting success. The post 2026 CHM Awards Ceremony appeared first on CHM.
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Saturday discussion post
1st Aug 2026
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Saturday discussion post

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Commodus’ Last Night in the Bath and the Chaos it Sparked Over the course of the late 2nd century AD, the emperor Commodus was accused of progressively...
1st Aug 2026
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Commodus’ Last Night in the Bath and the Chaos it Sparked

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1st Aug 2026
Over the course of the late 2nd century AD, the emperor Commodus was accused of progressively slipping into megalomania. Masquerading as a gladiator in the arena and presenting himself as the hero Hercules, he even had plans to rename the city of Rome after himself. Patience was...
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I Am a Stranger in This Country: An Outsider Photographs Britain and Ireland’s Travellers In I Am a Stranger in This Country Berlin-based photograph Frederik Rüegger shows us pictures from...
1st Aug 2025
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I Am a Stranger in This Country: An Outsider Photographs Britain and Ireland’s Travellers

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In I Am a Stranger in This Country Berlin-based photograph Frederik Rüegger shows us pictures from the two years he spent visiting the Roma and Traveller communities in Britain and Ireland. The book’s title is a nod to his reflects his status as a foreigner abroad and the...
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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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4th Feb 2025
In my father's footsteps
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Buster Brown Goes to Mars (1958) This comic is a promotional comic from Buster Brown shoes. If you went into a shoe store and tried...
3rd Jul 2026
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Buster Brown Goes to Mars (1958)

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3rd Jul 2026
This comic is a promotional comic from Buster Brown shoes. If you went into a shoe store and tried on Buster Brown shoes you would get a comic book with the name of the store stamped/printed on it. Buster Brown  (and his dog Tag) were a feature of 1950s and 1960s shoe store. In...
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Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019 Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
5th Dec 2019
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Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019

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5th Dec 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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Sandinista! To Our Friends, 20 Years Later : In Memory of Timur Kacharava, Russian Anti-Fascist Twenty years ago, on November 13, 2005, Timur Kacharava, an anti-fascist and a hardcore musician,...
17th Nov 2025
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Sandinista! To Our Friends, 20 Years Later : In Memory of Timur Kacharava, Russian Anti-Fascist

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17th Nov 2025
Twenty years ago, on November 13, 2005, Timur Kacharava, an anti-fascist and a hardcore musician, was murdered in a barbaric attack by neo-Nazis in the very center of St. Petersburg, Russia. Although for us, his death was not only a huge personal loss, but also an event that...
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Summary of changes for April Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st May 2022
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Summary of changes for April

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1st May 2022
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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Washington DC is Not a Popularity Contest IN 2009 PAUL GRAHAM WROTE A THOUGHTFUL ESSAY titled “Cities and Ambition.” There he proposes that a...
27th Sep 2024
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Washington DC is Not a Popularity Contest

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27th Sep 2024
IN 2009 PAUL GRAHAM WROTE A THOUGHTFUL ESSAY titled “Cities and Ambition.” There he proposes that a great city is defined by the sort of ambitions it kindles—or perhaps more accurately, the sort of ambitious it gathers. As Graham puts it:
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32 Hotdogs and A Pocketful of Chops: Eating With Duke Ellington Duke Ellington (born Edward Kennedy Ellington; April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) had a voracious...
1st Jun 2025
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32 Hotdogs and A Pocketful of Chops: Eating With Duke Ellington

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1st Jun 2025
Duke Ellington (born Edward Kennedy Ellington; April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) had a voracious appetite for sex and food. The elegant American jazz pianist, composer, master of instrumental colour and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra wrote thousands of songs and performed...
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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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15 Great History Museums Every History Lover Must Visit at Least Once Walking into a great history museum is the closest we can get to true time travel. From London and...
1st Jul 2026
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15 Great History Museums Every History Lover Must Visit at Least Once

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1st Jul 2026
Walking into a great history museum is the closest we can get to true time travel. From London and Berlin to Cairo and Mexico City, these 15 institutions rank among the best history museums in the world. Each museum holds culture-defining artifacts including the Rosetta Stone,...
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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 2021
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Summary of changes for February

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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
5th Feb 2023
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen

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5th Feb 2023
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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The most interesting things I read in 2023 Most of them are not from 2023
5th Dec 2023
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The most interesting things I read in 2023

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5th Dec 2023
Most of them are not from 2023
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Everything is (Somewhat) Connected. But some things are more connected than others.
1st Feb 2023
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Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.

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1st Feb 2023
But some things are more connected than others.
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My Politics Not sure why I didn’t notice before, but I’ve just realized that my key ask re cultural drift,...
1st Jul 2026
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My Politics

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1st Jul 2026
Not sure why I didn’t notice before, but I’ve just realized that my key ask re cultural drift, namely let’s try to save cherished parts of our culture from being discarded by successor civs, violates key modern taboos!
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Who Was the Real Aspasia? The “Prostitute” Who May Have Taught Socrates
2nd Sep 2026
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Who Was the Real Aspasia?

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The “Prostitute” Who May Have Taught Socrates
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Drawing the Future The ingenuity of industrial designers like Jerry Nichols helped Silicon Valley embrace mass...
16th Jan 2026
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Drawing the Future

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16th Jan 2026
The ingenuity of industrial designers like Jerry Nichols helped Silicon Valley embrace mass production in the 1960s and early 1970s, transforming the Valley and the world. The post Drawing the Future appeared first on CHM.
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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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7th Apr 2024
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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internet in paradise Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
1st Jul 2017
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internet in paradise

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1st Jul 2017
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef. Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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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...
31st Oct 2022
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Summary of changes for October

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31st Oct 2022
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 TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal. Left, added a...
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How birds got human names Magpie is short for "Margaret Pie" and I swear I'm not even joking
11th Nov 2025
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How birds got human names

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11th Nov 2025
Magpie is short for "Margaret Pie" and I swear I'm not even joking
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Nothing In Common... Is all we have left.
3rd Jun 2026
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Nothing In Common...

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3rd Jun 2026
Is all we have left.
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a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy. historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
7th Jul 2024
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a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.

from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history

7th Jul 2024
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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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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Sailing for Gaza : A Message from a Wayward American Yachtpunk in the Thousand Madleens to Gaza... Famine has become one of the central weapons with which the Israeli government seeks to exterminate...
5th Oct 2025
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Sailing for Gaza : A Message from a Wayward American Yachtpunk in the Thousand Madleens to Gaza Flotilla

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5th Oct 2025
Famine has become one of the central weapons with which the Israeli government seeks to exterminate the population of Gaza. On October 1, the Israeli military attacked the Sumud flotilla, a fleet of ships attempting to break the siege around Gaza in order to deliver much-needed...
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Fireside Friday, March 6, 2026 Hey everyone, we have a Fireside this week and then next week we’ll get back to our somewhat silly...
6th Mar 2026
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Fireside Friday, March 6, 2026

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6th Mar 2026
Hey everyone, we have a Fireside this week and then next week we’ll get back to our somewhat silly break discussing the mechanics of warfare in Dune. But I did want to stop to chatter a bit about something that came up in that discussion, which is something about the nature of...
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Taiwan Rising Honghong Tinn, author of Island Tinkerers, shares the fascinating history of how hobbyists and...
13th Nov 2025
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Taiwan Rising

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13th Nov 2025
Honghong Tinn, author of Island Tinkerers, shares the fascinating history of how hobbyists and enthusiasts in Taiwan helped transform the country through innovative and creative computer use. The post Taiwan Rising appeared first on CHM.
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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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Democracy The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
1st Nov 2024
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Democracy

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1st Nov 2024
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
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Beyond The Appearances. The joys of an Ideal world.
4th Feb 2026
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Beyond The Appearances.

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4th Feb 2026
The joys of an Ideal world.
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If I can shoot fascists Do words lead to violence?
1st Oct 2025
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If I can shoot fascists

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1st Oct 2025
Do words lead to violence?
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage "Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
3rd Dec 2023
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage

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3rd Dec 2023
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
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One Way Or Another .... We're going to get you.
7th Jun 2023
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One Way Or Another ....

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7th Jun 2023
We're going to get you.
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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

from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd Feb 2024
The decline and fall of the print media.
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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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30th Mar 2024
Stock vs flow approach.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Ten Commandments The lists of commandments in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 are almost identical to each other,...
1st Jul 2025
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Everything You Need to Know About the Ten Commandments

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1st Jul 2025
The lists of commandments in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 are almost identical to each other, diverging significantly only in the reasons they each give for keeping the Sabbath day. This list—often called the Decalogue—is what is popularly known as the Ten Commandments. However,...
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Transcript for "The 4 Best Books to Prepare for AI" Weber, Aristotle, Girard, Kripal
21st Jun 2026
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Transcript for "The 4 Best Books to Prepare for AI"

from Johnathan Bi: Transcripts [alt+shift+b] in history

21st Jun 2026
Weber, Aristotle, Girard, Kripal
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China found in U.S. archives an energy source that could power its future for 20,000 years - and... I’m not exaggerating.
6th Nov 2025
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China found in U.S. archives an energy source that could power its future for 20,000 years - and made it work

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6th Nov 2025
I’m not exaggerating.
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a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history. the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
3rd Mar 2024
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a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.

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3rd Mar 2024
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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Are We Doing Enough To Archive Digital Culture? Have you ever had any of these issues lately while trying to access content? You wrote a blog in the...
14th Aug 2019
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Are We Doing Enough To Archive Digital Culture?

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14th Aug 2019
Have you ever had any of these issues lately while trying to access content? You wrote a blog in the early to late 2000s, but it’s long since gone (or changed irrevocably, in my case). Can you still experience that blog in all its noughties HTML glory, via the Wayback Machine?...
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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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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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1st May 2026
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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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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