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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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Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005 This post as it looked in 2005. It's been a huge year for the Web! A time of renewed optimism in...
15th Dec 2005
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Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005

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15th Dec 2005
This post as it looked in 2005. It's been a huge year for the Web! A time of renewed optimism in Silicon Valley and an incredible number of new web applications. In a sense it all started with Google's IPO in August 2004, the success of which was a positive and affirming lead-in...
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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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A Closer Look at Australopithecus Deyiremeda The discovery of Australopithecus deyiremeda led to some very surprising results. Australopithecus...
4th Aug 2026
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A Closer Look at Australopithecus Deyiremeda

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4th Aug 2026
The discovery of Australopithecus deyiremeda led to some very surprising results. Australopithecus deyiremeda, from Wiki Commons In 2009, researcher Yohanne Haille-Selassie, working at a place called Burtele in the Waranso-Mille region of Ethiopia (not far from where Lucy had...
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Inside the Clashes at Delaney Hall Detention Center : A Timeline from a Mutual Aid Volunteer On May 22, 2026, amid a surge of hunger strikes in immigration detention prisons across the United...
4th Jun 2026
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Inside the Clashes at Delaney Hall Detention Center : A Timeline from a Mutual Aid Volunteer

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4th Jun 2026
On May 22, 2026, amid a surge of hunger strikes in immigration detention prisons across the United States, 300 detainees announced from their cells in Newark, New Jersey that they would not eat and would not toil for their captors until their demands were met. This sparked ten...
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2006 Web Technology Trends This post as it looked in 2006. It's December already and so it's about that time to reflect on what...
11th Dec 2006
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2006 Web Technology Trends

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11th Dec 2006
This post as it looked in 2006. It's December already and so it's about that time to reflect on what has happened in Web Technology during 2006 — and ponder what 2007 may bring. Over the next few weeks Read/WriteWeb is going to publish some in-depth posts analyzing the trends and...
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks Starting Tomorrow
1st Oct 2023
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks

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1st Oct 2023
Starting Tomorrow
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Wigs: Selling Hair in 1980s London “If your hair gone with the wind?” – sign in a wig shop, Stepney, Tower Hamlets, London   People...
2nd Sep 2026
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Wigs: Selling Hair in 1980s London

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2nd Sep 2026
“If your hair gone with the wind?” – sign in a wig shop, Stepney, Tower Hamlets, London   People were keen to fix their hair in the 1980s. Before the buzzcut became the norm for men with a thinning thatch and hair extensions for women became popular, Peter Marshall spotted high...
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The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
3rd Jun 2024
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The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise

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3rd Jun 2024
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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Intellectual narcissism or political relevance Did imperialism just reappear yesterday?
1st Feb 2026
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Intellectual narcissism or political relevance

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1st Feb 2026
Did imperialism just reappear yesterday?
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Are Humans Egalitarian? A common motive for studying “egalitarian” primitive social practices is a hope of supporting...
7th Mar 2026
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Are Humans Egalitarian?

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7th Mar 2026
A common motive for studying “egalitarian” primitive social practices is a hope of supporting something like the following narrative:
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Taiwan Strait Tensions and the KMT's Case for Dialogue and Exchange Taiwan’s largest opposition party cannot set official cross-Strait policy. But its efforts to deepen...
11th Aug 2026
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Taiwan Strait Tensions and the KMT's Case for Dialogue and Exchange

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11th Aug 2026
Taiwan’s largest opposition party cannot set official cross-Strait policy. But its efforts to deepen high-level exchanges and dialogue with the Chinese mainland offer another possibility.
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The French Space Cat Felicette France joined the Space Race in the 1950s, and one of her missions was a test flight involving the...
7th Jan 2025
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The French Space Cat Felicette

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7th Jan 2025
France joined the Space Race in the 1950s, and one of her missions was a test flight involving the first (and so far only) cat to enter space. It did not end well for the cat. In the aftermath of the Second World War, France, under the leadership of General Charles De Gaulle, was...
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Ranking medieval plague cures Number 4 may surprise you!
4th Jul 2026
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Ranking medieval plague cures

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4th Jul 2026
Number 4 may surprise you!
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The Politics of Exhaustion. And the exhaustion of politics.
3rd Jul 2024
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The Politics of Exhaustion.

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3rd Jul 2024
And the exhaustion of politics.
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
14th May 2024
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal

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14th May 2024
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864) On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
5th May 2024
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Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)

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5th May 2024
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970) From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
1st Apr 2024
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)

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1st Apr 2024
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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‘Central Europe’ by Luka Ivan Jukic review ‘Central Europe’ by Luka Ivan Jukic review JamesHoare Mon, 09/01/2025 - 09:10
1st Sep 2025
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‘Central Europe’ by Luka Ivan Jukic review

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1st Sep 2025
‘Central Europe’ by Luka Ivan Jukic review JamesHoare Mon, 09/01/2025 - 09:10
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Weekend Roundup Quiz Time!
2nd Feb 2025
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Weekend Roundup

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2nd Feb 2025
Quiz Time!
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Where parents make a difference Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
20th Mar 2024
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Where parents make a difference

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20th Mar 2024
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo Frontier models can now produce novel historical knowledge, but in a really weird way
a week ago
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Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

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a week ago
Frontier models can now produce novel historical knowledge, but in a really weird way
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Repression and Resistance in Russia : An Overview Across three decades, Russia has been at the forefront of the worldwide descent into...
9th Sep 2026
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Repression and Resistance in Russia : An Overview

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9th Sep 2026
Across three decades, Russia has been at the forefront of the worldwide descent into authoritarianism. Vladimir Putin’s government has suppressed opposition in ways that aspiring autocrats like Donald Trump are still striving to emulate. Yet despite widespread repression, there...
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Sub-replacement fertility in pre-baby boom Europe Past perspectives on fertility decline
20th Feb 2025
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Sub-replacement fertility in pre-baby boom Europe

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20th Feb 2025
Past perspectives on fertility decline
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The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962) As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book...
17th Jan 2025
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The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962)

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17th Jan 2025
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book from Cities Service gasoline. It probably was a give-away with purchase. It reflects the early 60s where the Mercury launches had taken place and we were looking ahead to the future....
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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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Summary of changes for January Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
31st Jan 2021
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Summary of changes for January

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31st Jan 2021
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Continue Reading
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1999: Netscape’s Fall and the Rise of the Mozilla Browser At the beginning of 1999, one company had all the momentum on the Web: Microsoft. While Netscape was...
13th Oct 2021
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1999: Netscape’s Fall and the Rise of the Mozilla Browser

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13th Oct 2021
At the beginning of 1999, one company had all the momentum on the Web: Microsoft. While Netscape was adjusting to corporate life with new owner AOL and trying to figure out its browser strategy, Microsoft was preparing to release version 5 of its browser, Internet Explorer. Like...
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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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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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Saturday discussion post
1st Aug 2026
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Saturday discussion post

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1st Aug 2026
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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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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

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2nd Feb 2024
The decline and fall of the print media.
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What the Internet Was Like in 2011 2011 was the year Facebook, the world’s leading social network, launched Timeline and introduced its...
10th Jan 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 2011

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10th Jan 2025
2011 was the year Facebook, the world’s leading social network, launched Timeline and introduced its algorithmic feed. These changes were partly influenced by a formidable new competitor: Google+. Meanwhile, Android overtook Apple's iOS as the leading mobile platform, Microsoft...
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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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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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Rockets and Space Coloring Book (1960) Some nice space pictures (to color) for you today.  Coloring books may be one of the ultimate forms...
8th Mar 2025
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Rockets and Space Coloring Book (1960)

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8th Mar 2025
Some nice space pictures (to color) for you today.  Coloring books may be one of the ultimate forms of ephemera. There were meant to be used, admired? and then thrown away. Yet many children owned them and there were at least 40 issued between 1950 and 1970 on space themes. If...
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The Missile Will Always Get Through. But who is prepared to admit it?
4th Dec 2024
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.

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4th Dec 2024
But who is prepared to admit it?
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How Not to Run an Airline: The 2024 Saurya Airlines CRJ-200 crash
1st Aug 2025
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How Not to Run an Airline: The 2024 Saurya Airlines CRJ-200 crash

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1st Aug 2025
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The end of the great order under the Heaven A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
22nd Aug 2024
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The end of the great order under the Heaven

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22nd Aug 2024
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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tools ecosystem How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary. In...
22nd Jul 2019
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tools ecosystem

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22nd Jul 2019
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary. In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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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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The "New" Ancient City Discovering Kavala...
2nd May 2024
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The "New" Ancient City

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2nd May 2024
Discovering Kavala...
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Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave! Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
21st May 2021
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Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!

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21st May 2021
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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Best Experienced With: MTV.com and the 90s Browser War Decaf or Java — which version of MTV's website should you choose? Part of the reason it was so...
4th Jun 2025
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Best Experienced With: MTV.com and the 90s Browser War

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4th Jun 2025
Decaf or Java — which version of MTV's website should you choose? Part of the reason it was so difficult for both digital music and video webcasts to gain traction on the web over 1997 was the fickleness of the underlying software: the web browser. Throughout the year, a host of...
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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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True Comics, December 1948. (“Rocket Trip to the Moon” ) Something old about a trip to the Moon. Celebrating trying another trip to the Moon here is a...
10th Apr 2026
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True Comics, December 1948. (“Rocket Trip to the Moon” )

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10th Apr 2026
Something old about a trip to the Moon. Celebrating trying another trip to the Moon here is a non-fiction story from 1948. Stuck in an obscure comic book it tells the story of spaceflight to come. True Comics. No. 80, December 1948. (“Rocket Trip to the Moon” p. 10-15.) Chicago:...
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions. At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was...
7th Dec 2025
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions.

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7th Dec 2025
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Salaga (Ghana), settled in Kete-Krachi (*Ghana) in 1896 and composed his...
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic? Which Playwright did it better?
1st Jul 2024
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?

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1st Jul 2024
Which Playwright did it better?
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Swapping Web 2.0 Summit for PARC; and RWW Planning for 2011 Me posing next to the Xerox ParcPad from 1992, an ancestor of the iPad (which was released in 2010);...
6th Nov 2024
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Swapping Web 2.0 Summit for PARC; and RWW Planning for 2011

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6th Nov 2024
Me posing next to the Xerox ParcPad from 1992, an ancestor of the iPad (which was released in 2010); photo on the right is from a group dinner in San Francisco, October 2010. In July, as I was trying to make progress on a number of troublesome fronts — including filling in...
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1995: The Birth of JavaScript Netscape Navigator 2, which featured the first version of JavaScript; image via...
22nd Dec 2020
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1995: The Birth of JavaScript

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22nd Dec 2020
Netscape Navigator 2, which featured the first version of JavaScript; image via Wikimedia. JavaScript was invented in a two-week flurry in May 1995 by Brendan Eich, at the time a newly hired developer at browser company Netscape. The project was initiated by Netscape because of a...
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What is happening to writing? "Cognitive debt," Claude Code, and the negative space around AI
18th Feb 2026
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What is happening to writing?

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18th Feb 2026
"Cognitive debt," Claude Code, and the negative space around AI
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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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Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps! Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
1st Jun 2023
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Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!

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1st Jun 2023
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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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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Baseball on the Moon We want to adapt baseball to be played on the moon. Is there any way to make it work? My first...
18th Mar 2025
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Baseball on the Moon

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18th Mar 2025
We want to adapt baseball to be played on the moon. Is there any way to make it work? My first impression is: no, for several reasons. The pitched ball will go a little faster (no air resistance) but breaking balls are impossible (ditto). So the batter will find it easier to...
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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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What the Internet Was Like in 2005 By 2005, Web 2.0 — the Web as platform — was the driving trend of Silicon Valley. It was a new tech...
1st Jun 2024
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What the Internet Was Like in 2005

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1st Jun 2024
By 2005, Web 2.0 — the Web as platform — was the driving trend of Silicon Valley. It was a new tech bubble, and that meant startup launches galore. YouTube and Reddit were just a couple of the future all-star web products launched in 2005. There were also plenty of acquisitions...
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Immigration and crime: Denmark Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
3rd Aug 2024
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Immigration and crime: Denmark

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3rd Aug 2024
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Quick's Flying Saucers and Rocket Ships (1953) A couple of rare (ish) punch-out books from 1953. I had tried to find copies for a while but finally...
1st Aug 2026
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Quick's Flying Saucers and Rocket Ships (1953)

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1st Aug 2026
A couple of rare (ish) punch-out books from 1953. I had tried to find copies for a while but finally it cam together. I really like the space graphics and the space helmet on the back. I also want my own "Robot Man" mask to wear. Lots of cool space toys. Jones, Jim and Virdone,...
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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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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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2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
15th Jan 2025
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2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past

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Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
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Recent addenda to articles 202609: Errors, omissions, and retractions I was going to start with “it has been a while since we had one of these” but then I saw that the...
a week ago
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Recent addenda to articles 202609: Errors, omissions, and retractions

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I was going to start with “it has been a while since we had one of these” but then I saw that the previous one started with “Wow, has it really been 7 months since I did one of these?” and that was in December 2023. Maybe I can make it a more regular thing. Anyway blogging...
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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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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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Can't Do, Won't Do! But striking poses is fun and easy.
3rd Jan 2024
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Can't Do, Won't Do!

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But striking poses is fun and easy.
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The ideology of Donald J. Trump Does Donald J.
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The ideology of Donald J. Trump

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Does Donald J.
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Summary of changes for September 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Oct 2024
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Summary of changes for September 2024

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1st Oct 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook. M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs. Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
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My Weekly Reader November 6, 1961 It is your Weekly Reader for this week of November 6, 1961. Here is the space flight news of this...
6th Jun 2025
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My Weekly Reader November 6, 1961

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It is your Weekly Reader for this week of November 6, 1961. Here is the space flight news of this week.
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Don't bluff someone who can't fold The war on Iran isn’t over yet, but it looks like we might in fact be staring at the one of the...
9th Apr 2026
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Don't bluff someone who can't fold

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The war on Iran isn’t over yet, but it looks like we might in fact be staring at the one of the single biggest losses in the U.S.
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Crop rotation in the 14th century The Year of the Plague, part 4
1st Mar 2025
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Crop rotation in the 14th century

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The Year of the Plague, part 4
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How a Chinese MAGA hat maker got caught in Trump's trade war Love Trump? Buy a hat. Hate him? Still buy a hat. But "Brother Wang" neither loves nor hates.
27th May 2025
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How a Chinese MAGA hat maker got caught in Trump's trade war

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Love Trump? Buy a hat. Hate him? Still buy a hat. But "Brother Wang" neither loves nor hates.
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What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and... Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films,...
1st Jan 2025
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What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Early Hitchcock Films, Tintin and Popeye Cartoons & More

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Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films, musical compositions, sound recordings, works of art, and other pieces of intellectual property. This year happens to be an especially notable one for connoisseurs of Belgian...
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The Most Dangerous Line: Behind the Hawker stall test crashes
18th Feb 2026
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The Most Dangerous Line: Behind the Hawker stall test crashes

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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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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo. In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
8th Oct 2023
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.

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8th Oct 2023
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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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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Transcript for Interview with Harvey Lederman on AI Welfare 1.
3 weeks ago
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Transcript for Interview with Harvey Lederman on AI Welfare

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Precolonial India was not rich The historical poverty of the Indian masses, origins of the great divergence, and why East Asian...
5th Oct 2025
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Precolonial India was not rich

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The historical poverty of the Indian masses, origins of the great divergence, and why East Asian growth miracle but not South Asian
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Two Views, Both Not Quite Photographs From a 1902 postcard, a profile view of the Brooklyn Bridge (with bonus Fulton ferry) and a smaller...
1st Jun 2026
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Two Views, Both Not Quite Photographs

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1st Jun 2026
From a 1902 postcard, a profile view of the Brooklyn Bridge (with bonus Fulton ferry) and a smaller view of the walkway. If you know the bridge well, as I do, the promenade view is actually quite accurate, but I suspect it’s a little bit difficult to parse for people who haven’t...
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The case for bundling substacks No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money
3rd Mar 2026
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The case for bundling substacks

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No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money
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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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More next week.
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Did Socrates’ Final Joke Fly Over Nietzsche’s Head? Nietzsche’s complex, occasionally baffling sense of humor usually entertains, sometimes enlightens...
1st Sep 2025
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Did Socrates’ Final Joke Fly Over Nietzsche’s Head?

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1st Sep 2025
Nietzsche’s complex, occasionally baffling sense of humor usually entertains, sometimes enlightens and often perplexes his readers. Scholars are often divided over whether or not Nietzsche is at times joking or serious. His being no stranger to comedy, we would expect Nietzsche...
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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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Cavalier Charleston
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
6th Apr 2024
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III

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6th Apr 2024
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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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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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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The indigenous versus foreign origins of West Africa’s pre-colonial architecture. Architecture is an aspect of culture that mediates between man and his environment, and it has been...
6th Jul 2025
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The indigenous versus foreign origins of West Africa’s pre-colonial architecture.

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Architecture is an aspect of culture that mediates between man and his environment, and it has been one of the first of the arts to adopt new materials and techniques.
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Genes and social stratification How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
20th Apr 2024
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Genes and social stratification

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20th Apr 2024
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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Bo Diddley Bo Diddley's cover of "Sixteen Tons" sounds very much like one of my favorites, "Can't Judge A Book...
3rd Mar 2026
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Bo Diddley

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3rd Mar 2026
Bo Diddley's cover of "Sixteen Tons" sounds very much like one of my favorites, "Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover". It's interesting to compare. Thinking on that it suddenly occured to me that his name might have been a play on “diddley bow”, which is a sort of homemade...
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024 Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
2nd Aug 2024
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024

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2nd Aug 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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If Punching Up is OK, So Is Punching Down Thinking that our world monoculture seems to be drifting into maladaption, I’ve wondered how to get...
2nd Nov 2025
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If Punching Up is OK, So Is Punching Down

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2nd Nov 2025
Thinking that our world monoculture seems to be drifting into maladaption, I’ve wondered how to get folks to care more about making their culture adaptive.
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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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ReadWriteWeb Mistaken for Facebook Login — Hilarity Ensues As internet culture continued to go mainstream over 2010, sometimes we at ReadWriteWeb got caught in...
4th Sep 2024
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ReadWriteWeb Mistaken for Facebook Login — Hilarity Ensues

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4th Sep 2024
As internet culture continued to go mainstream over 2010, sometimes we at ReadWriteWeb got caught in the crosshairs. In February, our website was hilariously mistaken for the Facebook login page by thousands of people. We’d published a post entitled “Facebook Wants to Be Your One...
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Patronage vs. Constituent Parties (Or Why Republican Party Leaders Matter More Than Democratic Ones) The Republican and Democratic parties are not the same: power flows differently within them. The two...
20th Jul 2024
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Patronage vs. Constituent Parties (Or Why Republican Party Leaders Matter More Than Democratic Ones)

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20th Jul 2024
The Republican and Democratic parties are not the same: power flows differently within them. The two big political news items of this week—the happenings of the Republican National Convention and the desperate attempts of many Democrats to replace their candidate before their own...
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Your Deepest Value is Adaption You like some people, food, and TV shows more than you do others.
1st Feb 2026
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Your Deepest Value is Adaption

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1st Feb 2026
You like some people, food, and TV shows more than you do others.
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The Assassination of Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Civil rights icon Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, on a motel...
1st Apr 2025
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The Assassination of Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr

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1st Apr 2025
Civil rights icon Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, on a motel balcony in Memphis. One of the earliest successes of the civil rights movement was a boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.  In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Woman Who Demanded Equality Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a revolutionary figure in her day, speaking out about women’s rights,...
1st Feb 2026
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Woman Who Demanded Equality

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1st Feb 2026
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a revolutionary figure in her day, speaking out about women’s rights, especially voting rights for women. Alongside fellow suffragist Susan B. Anthony, she worked tirelessly to change the way society treated women. A writer, philosopher, women’s rights...
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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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The Time I Met Bill English, Co-Creator of the Mouse This post is to honour the one-year anniversary of the passing of Bill English, at age 91, on 26...
26th Jul 2021
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The Time I Met Bill English, Co-Creator of the Mouse

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This post is to honour the one-year anniversary of the passing of Bill English, at age 91, on 26 July, 2020. English was Doug Engelbart’s right-hand man in the Mother of All Demos in 1968 and a key developer of the oN-Line System (NLS). The post below was initially part of a book...
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Summary of changes for November Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
30th Nov 2022
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Summary of changes for November

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30th Nov 2022
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe. Noodle,...
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Why I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years A special appeal to support Res Obscura on its Crystal Anniversary
4th Dec 2025
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Why I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years

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4th Dec 2025
A special appeal to support Res Obscura on its Crystal Anniversary
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Summary of changes for April 2026 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Apr 2026
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Summary of changes for April 2026

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1st Apr 2026
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April. Wiki, documented the replacement of Pino's headstay. Rabbit Waves, added a new page about Ship Lights. Rejoice, a bestiary of multiset combinators. Gaude, but.. in Peano's...
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2024 in writing A brief recap of my 2024 posts
4th Jan 2025
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2024 in writing

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A brief recap of my 2024 posts
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The Golden Age of Microblogging, With Soup.io and Tumblr Microblogging was a trend that emerged in the second half of the 2000s, after long-form weblogs had...
22nd Mar 2023
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The Golden Age of Microblogging, With Soup.io and Tumblr

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22nd Mar 2023
Microblogging was a trend that emerged in the second half of the 2000s, after long-form weblogs had become established in the culture. Microblogging is basically just short-form blogging and, as I’ll lay out in this post, its heyday was in the 2007-11 period. But microblogging is...
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Child of the Sun National Historic Landmark, Lakeland FL Frank Lloyd Wright may be the most famous American architect, and one of his significant works is...
3rd Feb 2026
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Child of the Sun National Historic Landmark, Lakeland FL

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3rd Feb 2026
Frank Lloyd Wright may be the most famous American architect, and one of his significant works is located in Florida. Frank Lloyd Wright was born in a rural area of Wisconsin in 1867. He grew up interested in art and design, decided upon a career in architecture, and after...
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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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A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa. Africa's past carved in ivory
7th May 2023
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A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.

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Africa's past carved in ivory
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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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Why Sheep Need Pigs in Sheepdog’s Clothing Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and...
2nd Aug 2026
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Why Sheep Need Pigs in Sheepdog’s Clothing

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2nd Aug 2026
Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas.
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ReadWriteWeb Turns 20: Writing to the Web Then and Now Twenty years ago, on 20 April 2003, I published the first post on a blog I had just started....
20th Apr 2023
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ReadWriteWeb Turns 20: Writing to the Web Then and Now

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20th Apr 2023
Twenty years ago, on 20 April 2003, I published the first post on a blog I had just started. Entitled The Read/Write Web, it was a manifesto of sorts. The post was filled with optimism for the web and made the case that a new era was just beginning. A “Web 2.0,” if you will...
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
5th Jul 2024
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism

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5th Jul 2024
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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Immigrant assimilation in Denmark A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
17th May 2024
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Immigrant assimilation in Denmark

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A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
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What the Internet Was Like in 1994 Netscape's mascot, Mozilla, in 1994; artist: Dave Titus. The World Wide Web was in its infancy as...
5th Mar 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 1994

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5th Mar 2025
Netscape's mascot, Mozilla, in 1994; artist: Dave Titus. The World Wide Web was in its infancy as 1994 dawned. There were just 623 websites in the entire world at the beginning of the year. By June 1994, that figure had risen to 2,738 and by year's end it had tipped over 10,000....
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The Story Of Menstruation: Watch Walt Disney’s Sex Ed Film from 1946 From 1945 to 1951, Disney produced a series of educational films to be shown in American schools....
3rd Mar 2025
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The Story Of Menstruation: Watch Walt Disney’s Sex Ed Film from 1946

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3rd Mar 2025
From 1945 to 1951, Disney produced a series of educational films to be shown in American schools. How to bathe an infant. How not to catch a cold. Why you shouldn’t drive fast. Disney covered these subjects in its educational shorts, and then eventually got to the touchy subject...
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Was the world of the 1990s better than today’s? It is a fundamental question.
3rd Jan 2026
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Was the world of the 1990s better than today’s?

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3rd Jan 2026
It is a fundamental question.
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Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836) Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
18th Dec 2022
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Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)

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18th Dec 2022
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
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The Bards of the Second Reformation 'John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs' by Ian Leslie
3rd May 2025
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The Bards of the Second Reformation

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3rd May 2025
'John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs' by Ian Leslie
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The Silicon Gold Rush: How AI is Driving Development of New Chips The California Gold Rush created fortunes not only for prospectors, but also for the people selling...
1st Sep 2026
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The Silicon Gold Rush: How AI is Driving Development of New Chips

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1st Sep 2026
The California Gold Rush created fortunes not only for prospectors, but also for the people selling picks and shovels. At CHM Live, computer architecture pioneers Bill Dally of NVIDIA and Norm Jouppi of Google joined CHM Fellow David Patterson to discuss the modern version of...
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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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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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‘Sacred Britannia’ by Miranda Aldhouse-Green ‘Sacred Britannia’ by Miranda Aldhouse-Green H T Fri, 11/02/2018 - 00:00
2nd Nov 2018
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‘Sacred Britannia’ by Miranda Aldhouse-Green

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‘Sacred Britannia’ by Miranda Aldhouse-Green H T Fri, 11/02/2018 - 00:00
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William Steig’s Illustrations for Wilhelm Reich’s Listen, Little Man!, 1945 “They call you ‘Little Man’, ‘Common Man’; they say a new era has begun, the ‘Era of the Common...
1st Feb 2026
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William Steig’s Illustrations for Wilhelm Reich’s Listen, Little Man!, 1945

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“They call you ‘Little Man’, ‘Common Man’; they say a new era has begun, the ‘Era of the Common Man’. It isn’t you who says so, Little Man. It is they, the Vice Presidents of great nations, promoted labor leaders, repentant sons of bourgeois families, statesmen and philosophers....
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What Is Rudolf Steiner’s Philosophy of Freedom? Do you want to learn about philosophy and how it affects our idea of freedom? If you do, then Rudolf...
17th Feb 2025
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What Is Rudolf Steiner’s Philosophy of Freedom?

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Do you want to learn about philosophy and how it affects our idea of freedom? If you do, then Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy of freedom is something you’ll find incredibly interesting. In his famous book The Philosophy of Freedom, Steiner, an Austrian philosopher, anthroposophist,...
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Summary of changes for February 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Mar 2025
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Summary of changes for February 2025

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1st Mar 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added Dinghy gelcoat, Week 10, Week 11, and Week 12 of the Victoria to Sitka logbook. Updated solar with new pictures and corrected information...
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The Birth of the Modern Moral Panic How the gin craze set a template for fear of intoxicants
13th Aug 2025
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The Birth of the Modern Moral Panic

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How the gin craze set a template for fear of intoxicants
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Universities as factories I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
4th May 2024
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Universities as factories

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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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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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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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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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It Gets Worse. This time, there will be consequences.
6th Aug 2025
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It Gets Worse.

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This time, there will be consequences.
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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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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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1990: Programming the World Wide Web In the final few months of 1990, 35-year Tim Berners-Lee and his colleague Robert Cailliau developed...
1st Nov 2021
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1990: Programming the World Wide Web

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In the final few months of 1990, 35-year Tim Berners-Lee and his colleague Robert Cailliau developed the world’s first web client (a browser/editor), created the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), wrote the first web server, and tied it all together with an Internet communication...
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Summary of changes for November 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Dec 2023
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Summary of changes for November 2023

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November. Summary Of Changes Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio! Thousand Rooms, translated the...
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The Long Run. The future belongs to them.
8th Jan 2025
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The Long Run.

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The future belongs to them.
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Futarchy's Minor Flaw In my 1999 article “Decision Markets” (IEEE Intelligent Systems 14(3):16-19, May/June), I explained...
2nd Oct 2025
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Futarchy's Minor Flaw

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In my 1999 article “Decision Markets” (IEEE Intelligent Systems 14(3):16-19, May/June), I explained how decision-conditional market estimates could be used to advise decisions, a concept I soon called “
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The Art of Remembering Death (Memento Mori) and Life (Memento Vivere) Death and its inevitability have been a constant in humankind’s approach to living. In today’s...
1st Jan 2026
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The Art of Remembering Death (Memento Mori) and Life (Memento Vivere)

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1st Jan 2026
Death and its inevitability have been a constant in humankind’s approach to living. In today’s world, we are perhaps not as vividly prompted to be conscious of our mortality as were the ancient Greeks, Romans, and early Christians. Artworks depicting skulls, hourglasses, dancing...
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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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an island to oneself Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
1st Jun 2018
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an island to oneself

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Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes. Many of the...
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Melt the ICE: The Fight Continues : Twin Cities Protesters Blockade ICE Inside the Federal Building On March 1, 2026, at the conclusion of a week of action against the Immigration and Customs...
5th Mar 2026
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Melt the ICE: The Fight Continues : Twin Cities Protesters Blockade ICE Inside the Federal Building

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On March 1, 2026, at the conclusion of a week of action against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement occupation of the Twin Cities, protesters converged on the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Fort Snelling, Minnesota. At least four hundred people marched on the...
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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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Erik Satie's 'Socrate'
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The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations How William James, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Francis Galton thought with diagrams
22nd Apr 2026
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The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations

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How William James, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Francis Galton thought with diagrams
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Vintage Beach Fashion of the 1930s: Glamorous Swimwear Photos From the Pre-Bikini Era Sun-drenched shores, tailored wool swimsuits, and a newfound sense of freedom all came together to...
1st Aug 2026
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Vintage Beach Fashion of the 1930s: Glamorous Swimwear Photos From the Pre-Bikini Era

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1st Aug 2026
Sun-drenched shores, tailored wool swimsuits, and a newfound sense of freedom all came together to define one of the most stylish decades in beach history. The 1930s transformed swimming from a rare luxury into a beloved national pastime, and with that shift came a wave of...
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a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa. a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
7th Jan 2024
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a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.

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a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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The Obscene Art of Wallace Smith For The Banned Book Fantazius Mallare, 1922 “A memory of sanity gives diverting outline to the shadows in me. I am not a maniac like the night....
1st Dec 2025
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The Obscene Art of Wallace Smith For The Banned Book Fantazius Mallare, 1922

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1st Dec 2025
“A memory of sanity gives diverting outline to the shadows in me. I am not a maniac like the night. My mind closes like darkness over the world but I enjoy myself walking amid insane houses, staring at windows that look like drunken octagons, observing lamp posts that simper with...
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Fiction is truer than fact Willing suspension of disbelief is not a good basis for lawmaking
2nd Apr 2025
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Fiction is truer than fact

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2nd Apr 2025
Willing suspension of disbelief is not a good basis for lawmaking
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The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
8th Nov 2023
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The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century

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What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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The Life of Flowers In Vintage Found Photographs Flowers speak a language we understand. They tell us of time and its passing. They speak of life and...
1st Apr 2025
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The Life of Flowers In Vintage Found Photographs

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Flowers speak a language we understand. They tell us of time and its passing. They speak of life and death, enduring, waiting and survival. They speak of hope and renewal. “To be a flower,” Emily Dickinson wrote in Bloom, a poem, “is profound Responsibility”. We’re thinking of...
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1995: MySQL Debuts and Web Databases Slowly Emerge The LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) would not be coined as an acronym for another...
15th Sep 2021
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1995: MySQL Debuts and Web Databases Slowly Emerge

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15th Sep 2021
The LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) would not be coined as an acronym for another few years, but all the pieces were in place by the end of 1995 — albeit at varying stages of maturity and adoption. Version 1.0 of Linux had been released in 1994 and commercial...
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The key lesson from Iran? Kim Jong Un was right about everything. It’s hard to overstate or even begin to list all the genuinely awful precedents set by Israel and...
24th Jun 2025
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The key lesson from Iran? Kim Jong Un was right about everything.

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24th Jun 2025
It’s hard to overstate or even begin to list all the genuinely awful precedents set by Israel and the U.S.’s behavior vis à vis Iran in the latest war.
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Gold, volk and IQs Hayek’s fatal conceit
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Gold, volk and IQs

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Hayek’s fatal conceit
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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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How to interpret medieval marginalia 101 A non-comprehensive and unofficial guide
3rd Jun 2026
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How to interpret medieval marginalia 101

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A non-comprehensive and unofficial guide
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Sony and Meta Explained: The Future of PlayStation VR Sony is transferring hundreds of VR patents to Meta. The decision may reflect past lessons and a...
3 days ago
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Sony and Meta Explained: The Future of PlayStation VR

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Sony is transferring hundreds of VR patents to Meta. The decision may reflect past lessons and a changing approach to PlayStation hardware.
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AI labs need to start funding historical research Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
2 weeks ago
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AI labs need to start funding historical research

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Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
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A self-absorbed giant Dearth of Chinese lessons for the rest of the world
12th Jul 2026
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A self-absorbed giant

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Dearth of Chinese lessons for the rest of the world
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1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo In January 1994, two Stanford University graduate students — Jerry Yang and David Filo — created a...
10th Aug 2021
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1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo

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10th Aug 2021
In January 1994, two Stanford University graduate students — Jerry Yang and David Filo — created a web directory named “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web.” It went by various other names in early 1994 (such as “Hierarchical Hotlist” and “Jerry & Dave’s Guide to WWW”),...
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Acids to Ashes: The crash of Pan Am flight 160
28th Mar 2025
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Acids to Ashes: The crash of Pan Am flight 160

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Johnny Rotten in Jamaica, 1978 ‘First thing that happened at the airport was this group of Rastas saw us and they were, like ’hey...
2nd Jul 2026
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Johnny Rotten in Jamaica, 1978

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‘First thing that happened at the airport was this group of Rastas saw us and they were, like ’hey Johnny Rotten mon! God save the Queen!’. And we looked at each other and smiled and were like, “we gonna be cool here”‘. —Dennis Morris   John Lydon still knows how to piss people...
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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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How to Decode Goryeo Buddhist Paintings in Korean Art Among Korea’s rarest and most beautiful religious artifacts, the Goryeo Period Buddhist paintings...
1st Mar 2025
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How to Decode Goryeo Buddhist Paintings in Korean Art

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1st Mar 2025
Among Korea’s rarest and most beautiful religious artifacts, the Goryeo Period Buddhist paintings were largely lost due to colonization and war. Retrieved from Japanese temples, their imagery is now interpreted to represent stories of the afterlife. Alongside their religious...
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Rethinking the “Technology Gap” in African History: Guns, Plows, and Furnaces. Popular literature on the history of technology maintains that the limited adoption of more complex...
7th Jun 2026
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Rethinking the “Technology Gap” in African History: Guns, Plows, and Furnaces.

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7th Jun 2026
Popular literature on the history of technology maintains that the limited adoption of more complex technologies in pre-colonial Africa placed the continent at a disadvantage in its interactions with the wider world.
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Macron in China: Trade, Trust and a Shared Vision for Multilateralism Good evening.
7th Dec 2025
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Macron in China: Trade, Trust and a Shared Vision for Multilateralism

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7th Dec 2025
Good evening.
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
12th Nov 2023
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work

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12th Nov 2023
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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The Age of Discord: Fragmented politics and unhinged discourse Today I attended in New York, at Columbia University (which still looks a bit like a fortress...
13th Sep 2025
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The Age of Discord: Fragmented politics and unhinged discourse

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13th Sep 2025
Today I attended in New York, at Columbia University (which still looks a bit like a fortress because of the students protests that took place there about 1.5 years ago) a conference at the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Institute for Policy Dialogue.
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My Weekly Reader and Gemini (1965,1966) As I got through boxes I found a couple of My Weekly Readers that I had not shared before. My Weekly...
1st Feb 2025
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My Weekly Reader and Gemini (1965,1966)

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1st Feb 2025
As I got through boxes I found a couple of My Weekly Readers that I had not shared before. My Weekly Reader posts seem to be popular for their nostalgia effect and because as ephemera no one saved them from their youth. These particular ones are about the Gemini missions. At the...
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Not at the table: Europe's colonial moment The upcoming negotiations in Alaska between Trump and Putin tells you all you ought to know about...
10th Aug 2025
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Not at the table: Europe's colonial moment

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10th Aug 2025
The upcoming negotiations in Alaska between Trump and Putin tells you all you ought to know about the nature of the Ukraine war, and Europe's current geopolitical status.
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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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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
17th Feb 2023
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain

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17th Feb 2023
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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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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The Sense Of An Ending. But right back where we started from.
7th Aug 2024
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The Sense Of An Ending.

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7th Aug 2024
But right back where we started from.
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My Weekly Reader February 4, 1962 Happy 4th of July! Here is your My Weekly Reader for "Happy 4th of February, 1962."
5th Jul 2025
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My Weekly Reader February 4, 1962

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5th Jul 2025
Happy 4th of July! Here is your My Weekly Reader for "Happy 4th of February, 1962."
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“To the Finland Station” Trump as a tool of history
7th Jan 2025
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“To the Finland Station”

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7th Jan 2025
Trump as a tool of history
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Summary of changes for November 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
30th Nov 2024
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Summary of changes for November 2024

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30th Nov 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook. Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to... The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
1st Dec 2024
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The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to Eastern Congo.

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1st Dec 2024
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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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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Gap Week: December 1, 2023 No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
1st Dec 2023
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023

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1st Dec 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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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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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy...
6th Jun 2026
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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight

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6th Jun 2026
This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military systems tend to map on to societies, both because such general historical frameworks are...
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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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Jolted and Jumbled: Riding in a Sedan Chair in the 18th Century If there is one form of transport that perhaps typifies the 18th century more than any other, it is...
19th Aug 2025
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Jolted and Jumbled: Riding in a Sedan Chair in the 18th Century

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19th Aug 2025
If there is one form of transport that perhaps typifies the 18th century more than any other, it is a sedan chair.  Recently I have been doing some work on stage coaches, and the experience of what it was actually like to travel in one. This is already turning up some interesting...
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Best Web 2.0 Companies of 2004 This post as it looked in 2004. In 2005 I'll be sharpening my blog's focus some more, onto the topic...
30th Dec 2004
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Best Web 2.0 Companies of 2004

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30th Dec 2004
This post as it looked in 2004. In 2005 I'll be sharpening my blog's focus some more, onto the topic of Web 2.0. I'll explore what Web 2.0 means in detail in later posts, but for now a quick definition of Web 2.0 is: using the Web as a platform. A good way for me to launch into...
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Check-In Culture: Foursquare Raps by the Go-Bang Mayor I recently had occasion to write about Foursquare, the once popular location check-in app. I’d been...
21st Feb 2023
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Check-In Culture: Foursquare Raps by the Go-Bang Mayor

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21st Feb 2023
I recently had occasion to write about Foursquare, the once popular location check-in app. I’d been emailed by its PR firm about a potential Machine Learning story. In her pitch, the PR rep had called Foursquare a “location data platform.” All this piqued my interest as a tech...
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Summary of changes for September 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Oct 2025
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Summary of changes for September 2025

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1st Oct 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September. Noodle, redesigned the interface. Wiki, updated with a new photo. Punk Rabbits, completed 19 new rabbits(#35-53). NanoTalk, released a Nanochat client, written in Tal. As...
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No More Heroes. Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
6th Nov 2024
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No More Heroes.

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6th Nov 2024
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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I talked to Terry Gross! A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
16th Jan 2024
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I talked to Terry Gross!

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16th Jan 2024
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
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Project Mercury Project Mercury was America’s entry into the Space Race and was intended to put a human into space...
4th Mar 2025
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Project Mercury

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4th Mar 2025
Project Mercury was America’s entry into the Space Race and was intended to put a human into space before the Soviet Union did. The Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite in October 1957 caused a near-panic in the United States and led to desperate calls to “catch up”. President...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
3rd Nov 2023
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces

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3rd Nov 2023
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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These Vintage Alcohol Ads Are as Bizarre as They Are Fascinating There is a certain kind of discomfort that comes from flipping through old magazines from the 1960s...
1st May 2026
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These Vintage Alcohol Ads Are as Bizarre as They Are Fascinating

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1st May 2026
There is a certain kind of discomfort that comes from flipping through old magazines from the 1960s and 1970s. Not because they feel foreign, but because they don’t, entirely. The clothes changed. The hairstyles changed. The alcohol ads, though, reveal something rawer about that...
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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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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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1st Jan 2024
“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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Being Non-Transactional. Beyond "What's in it for me?"
2nd Apr 2025
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Being Non-Transactional.

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2nd Apr 2025
Beyond "What's in it for me?"
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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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1st Apr 2026
As shown by the Iran crisis.
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Old But Not Forgotten: Old Couple Find Fun Wearing Clothes Left At Their Laundry “Dressed like that, I feel 30 years younger” – Wan-ji, Want Show Was Young     For decades married...
2nd Nov 2025
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Old But Not Forgotten: Old Couple Find Fun Wearing Clothes Left At Their Laundry

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2nd Nov 2025
“Dressed like that, I feel 30 years younger” – Wan-ji, Want Show Was Young     For decades married couple Hsu Sho-Er, 84, and Chang Wan-Ji, 83, ran the Wansho Laundry in Taichung, Taiwan. Over the years many people left clothes behind. Hundreds of items were left unclaimed for a...
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A different game On football’s extreme commercialization
1st Jun 2026
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A different game

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1st Jun 2026
On football’s extreme commercialization
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Stone, Scissors, Paper. Or, Europe after Ukraine.
5th Feb 2025
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Stone, Scissors, Paper.

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5th Feb 2025
Or, Europe after Ukraine.
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Constructing Missing Crime Tables Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
17th Jan 2023
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Constructing Missing Crime Tables

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17th Jan 2023
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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Insidious Truths: The crashes of Birgenair flight 301 and Aeroperú flight 603
30th Jun 2025
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Insidious Truths: The crashes of Birgenair flight 301 and Aeroperú flight 603

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30th Jun 2025
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War Is Complicated. And not just the fighting bit.
3rd May 2023
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War Is Complicated.

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3rd May 2023
And not just the fighting bit.
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The Spiral of Wrath: The crash of Armavia flight 967
5th Nov 2024
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The Spiral of Wrath: The crash of Armavia flight 967

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5th Nov 2024
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Journey to the Sun (1961) The second promotional comic I wanted to share is Journey to the Sun. It is also from Boys’ and...
2nd May 2025
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Journey to the Sun (1961)

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2nd May 2025
The second promotional comic I wanted to share is Journey to the Sun. It is also from Boys’ and Girls’ March of Comics and the only other one I've found that is about space flight.  It was handed to customers of stores that sold Little Yankee Shoes.   Journey to the Sun is a...
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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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Collections: What Do Historians Do? For this week, I want to take a step back (we’ll be back to our series on Rings of Power next week!)...
7th Mar 2025
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Collections: What Do Historians Do?

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7th Mar 2025
For this week, I want to take a step back (we’ll be back to our series on Rings of Power next week!) and talk about the craft of history: we’ve talked about “How Your History Gets Made” from the perspective of the different people who do it – research historians, public...
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