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Alone With Our Thoughts. Lost in the supermarket of opinions.
3rd Dec 2025
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Alone With Our Thoughts.

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3rd Dec 2025
Lost in the supermarket of opinions.
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The White Masks of Gabon: “Foreign” symbolism in Traditional African sculpture. Among the most refined works of African art are the distinctive white masks of southern Gabon in...
2nd Aug 2026
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The White Masks of Gabon: “Foreign” symbolism in Traditional African sculpture.

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2nd Aug 2026
Among the most refined works of African art are the distinctive white masks of southern Gabon in Central Africa.
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The Euthyphro problem 'Is that which is moral moral because God commands it?, or does God command that which is moral...
1st Oct 2025
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The Euthyphro problem

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1st Oct 2025
'Is that which is moral moral because God commands it?, or does God command that which is moral because it is moral?'
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Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period. Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
11th Jun 2024
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Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.

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11th Jun 2024
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit!  A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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Summary of changes for October 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Nov 2023
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Summary of changes for October 2023

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1st Nov 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version. Wunderland...
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Summary of changes for August 2026 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Sep 2026
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Summary of changes for August 2026

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1st Sep 2026
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August. Wiki, updated various sections in solar cooking experiment. Donsol, putting some final touches to the new release. Hakum, completed Recharge. Rabbit Waves, added an image for...
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Summary of changes for November 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2nd Dec 2025
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Summary of changes for November 2025

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2nd Dec 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November. Thousand Rooms, added an English version with one type of dyslexia-friendly typeface. A Danish version is also on the way. Orca, improved the interface, released an Orca...
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Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history. There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
3rd Nov 2024
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Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.

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3rd Nov 2024
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
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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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Summary of changes for September Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
3rd Oct 2021
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Summary of changes for September

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3rd Oct 2021
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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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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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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London at its Dickensian finest What a time to be alive (if you didn’t die from cholera)
3rd Sep 2025
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London at its Dickensian finest

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3rd Sep 2025
What a time to be alive (if you didn’t die from cholera)
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Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
1st Jan 2023
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Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century

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1st Jan 2023
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Audiobooks Deep Dive: Latest Statistics and Trends In last week’s article, I analyzed the rise of audio formats in comparison to the decline in print...
2nd Oct 2019
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Audiobooks Deep Dive: Latest Statistics and Trends

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2nd Oct 2019
In last week’s article, I analyzed the rise of audio formats in comparison to the decline in print formats. Specifically: podcasts and audiobooks are on a bull run in the content market, whereas blogs, print books and ebooks continue their bearish tendencies. In the following two...
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a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy. historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
7th Jul 2024
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a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.

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

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5th Oct 2025
Famine has become one of the central weapons with which the Israeli government seeks to exterminate the population of Gaza. On October 1, the Israeli military attacked the Sumud flotilla, a fleet of ships attempting to break the siege around Gaza in order to deliver much-needed...
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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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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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Musk built a monopoly on space. Can China break it? There is an argument being made that what Tesla did to boost the Chinese EV industry, SpaceX will do...
3rd Jul 2026
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Musk built a monopoly on space. Can China break it?

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3rd Jul 2026
There is an argument being made that what Tesla did to boost the Chinese EV industry, SpaceX will do to boost China’s commercial space industry.
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Jonathan Chait [ Content warning: angry, contemptuous ranting that accomplishes nothing. ] I didn't really know who...
1st Dec 2024
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Jonathan Chait

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1st Dec 2024
[ Content warning: angry, contemptuous ranting that accomplishes nothing. ] I didn't really know who Jonathan Chait was until last week when I unfortunately read this essay of his (from February 2016) on “Why Liberals Should Support a Trump Republican Nomination”. I've said a lot...
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
13th Feb 2024
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism

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13th Feb 2024
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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The triumph of Brand Scotland Good luck booking a holiday in the Highlands next summer
1st Jul 2026
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The triumph of Brand Scotland

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1st Jul 2026
Good luck booking a holiday in the Highlands next summer
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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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1st Apr 2025
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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Saturday discussion post
1st Aug 2026
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Saturday discussion post

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1st Aug 2026
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Summary of changes for May 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st May 2023
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Summary of changes for May 2023

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1st May 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
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The rise of life expectancy Illustrated and explained
2nd Jul 2025
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The rise of life expectancy

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2nd Jul 2025
Illustrated and explained
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An Invitation to The Rats Wedding And Vietnam’s Ðông Hồ Folk Paintings Often used to illustrate Vietnamese New Year, Ðông Hồ paintings are bright, witty riffs on society...
1st Apr 2026
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An Invitation to The Rats Wedding And Vietnam’s Ðông Hồ Folk Paintings

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1st Apr 2026
Often used to illustrate Vietnamese New Year, Ðông Hồ paintings are bright, witty riffs on society and human desire. The traditional themes of Đông Hồ painting and woodblock prints are good luck signs, historical figures, folk allegories, popular stories, and social commentaries....
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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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3rd Jun 2026
A non-comprehensive and unofficial guide
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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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26th Jul 2021
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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New Acquisitions: Tolkien and Éowyn Between Two Wars (PPP Moot Keynote) Hey folks! I am working on finishing up some things this week, so I thought I would post the text of...
3rd Jan 2026
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New Acquisitions: Tolkien and Éowyn Between Two Wars (PPP Moot Keynote)

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3rd Jan 2026
Hey folks! I am working on finishing up some things this week, so I thought I would post the text of the keynote I gave at the Prancing Pony Podcast Moot earlier this December. I’ve made some minor edits to conform a bit more to the form of a blog post, but this remains very …...
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Summary of changes for March 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Apr 2024
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Summary of changes for March 2024

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1st Apr 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration. Uxn, added 2 new commands...
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Summary of changes for January 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Feb 2024
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Summary of changes for January 2024

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1st Feb 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner. Permacomputing, revamped the page. Flappy Bird,...
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NASA’s Ocean Mission As part of its Apollo Moon program, NASA carried out an ambitious experiment in the depths of the...
7th Apr 2026
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NASA’s Ocean Mission

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7th Apr 2026
As part of its Apollo Moon program, NASA carried out an ambitious experiment in the depths of the ocean. The PX-15 submarine on display in Vancouver photo from Wiki Commons In the early 1960s, explorer Jacques Piccard was looking for funding. He had designed the research...
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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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Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious? I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
30th Sep 2023
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Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?

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30th Sep 2023
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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The "mechanical miracle" that ruined Mark Twain's life Learning from the automation dreams of the first Machine Age
5th Aug 2026
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The "mechanical miracle" that ruined Mark Twain's life

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5th Aug 2026
Learning from the automation dreams of the first Machine Age
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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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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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5th Mar 2026
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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People On The Liberty Island Ferry in 1976 In 1976, Bill Antin was riding the Liberty Island ferry that connects Manhattan to Liberty Island in...
1st Sep 2025
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People On The Liberty Island Ferry in 1976

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1st Sep 2025
In 1976, Bill Antin was riding the Liberty Island ferry that connects Manhattan to Liberty Island in New York City. Were you? If this is you or someone you recognise in these pictures, please get in touch. We’d love to hear from you. For the rest of us, let’s imagine the stories...
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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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7th May 2023
Africa's past carved in ivory
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Watch the First 2+ Hours of MTV’s Inaugural Broadcast (August 1, 1981) Not everyone on August 1, 1981 had a VCR at their disposal, and not everybody stayed up until...
3rd Feb 2025
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Watch the First 2+ Hours of MTV’s Inaugural Broadcast (August 1, 1981)

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3rd Feb 2025
Not everyone on August 1, 1981 had a VCR at their disposal, and not everybody stayed up until midnight. But fortunately at least one person did, in order to tape the first two hours of a new cable channel called MTV: Music Television. Did they know it would be historic? MTV...
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Cloud Gate, Chicago’s “Bean” This futuristic sculpture in Millennium Park has become an icon of Chicago. In 1997, the city of...
4th Feb 2025
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Cloud Gate, Chicago’s “Bean”

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4th Feb 2025
This futuristic sculpture in Millennium Park has become an icon of Chicago. In 1997, the city of Chicago was making plans for a patch of land near Grant Park on the shore of Lake Michigan that had previously been a parking lot and a railroad yard. At first, there was talk of...
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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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The Ancient Empires of Africa: Imperial Governments and “Native” Rulers. Ancient state structures in Africa included Empires, which carried with them all the complexity,...
6th Sep 2026
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The Ancient Empires of Africa: Imperial Governments and “Native” Rulers.

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6th Sep 2026
Ancient state structures in Africa included Empires, which carried with them all the complexity, inequalities, and political baggage inherent in such systems.
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The Machine Stops. And fiddling won't fix it.
4th Sep 2024
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The Machine Stops.

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4th Sep 2024
And fiddling won't fix it.
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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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An Apology, An Apologia And an Actual Example. All I can manage this week, sorry.
5th Nov 2025
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An Apology, An Apologia And an Actual Example.

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5th Nov 2025
All I can manage this week, sorry.
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Babar's Moon Trip (1968) Babar's Moon Trip was a pop-up book I had never come across before. It seems influenced a little by...
13th Sep 2025
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Babar's Moon Trip (1968)

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13th Sep 2025
Babar's Moon Trip was a pop-up book I had never come across before. It seems influenced a little by the space race and the American efforts to get to the Moon.  They face problems like: not achieving escape velocity for the Moon, failure of stage separation, failure to adjust...
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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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Origins of the Odyssey Rethinking the Dark Age and the Alphabet
a week ago
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Origins of the Odyssey

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a week ago
Rethinking the Dark Age and the Alphabet
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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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‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review ‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review JamesHoare Mon, 08/04/2025 - 09:08
4th Aug 2025
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‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review

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4th Aug 2025
‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review JamesHoare Mon, 08/04/2025 - 09:08
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The Politics Of Destruction. Incorporating the destruction of politics.
7th Jan 2026
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The Politics Of Destruction.

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7th Jan 2026
Incorporating the destruction of politics.
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Cometh the Hour.... Cometh ... well, who exactly?
4 days ago
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Cometh the Hour....

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4 days ago
Cometh ... well, who exactly?
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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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The most interesting things I read in 2023 Most of them are not from 2023
5th Dec 2023
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The most interesting things I read in 2023

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5th Dec 2023
Most of them are not from 2023
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The curious case of the missing period When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
20th Feb 2024
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The curious case of the missing period

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20th Feb 2024
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’ This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly...
3rd Jan 2025
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Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’

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3rd Jan 2025
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly in the context of modern fantasy and roleplaying settings. In particular, the notions I want to tackle are first how did ancient currency systems work in terms of value (what...
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part I This week, we’re going to take a close look at arguably the most famous and recognizable Roman...
6th Jun 2025
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part I

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6th Jun 2025
This week, we’re going to take a close look at arguably the most famous and recognizable Roman battle sequence in film: the iconic opening battle from Gladiator (2000). Despite being a relatively short sequence (about ten minutes), there’s actually enough to talk about here that...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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Voices from the Uprising in Indonesia : Affan Kurniawan Lives on in the Streets A wave of protest exploded across Indonesia at the end of August 2025. In this report, we present an...
4th Sep 2025
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Voices from the Uprising in Indonesia : Affan Kurniawan Lives on in the Streets

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A wave of protest exploded across Indonesia at the end of August 2025. In this report, we present an interview with an imprisoned Indonesian anarchist author along with various statements from anarchist groups that have reached English-speaking outlets since the uprising...
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When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet...
2nd Apr 2025
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When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI

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2nd Apr 2025
One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar.
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‘Sacred Britannia’ by Miranda Aldhouse-Green ‘Sacred Britannia’ by Miranda Aldhouse-Green H T Fri, 11/02/2018 - 00:00
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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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How China sees the world — and plans to respond Insights drawn directly from newly released internal-style guides written by China’s top...
7th Nov 2025
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How China sees the world — and plans to respond

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Insights drawn directly from newly released internal-style guides written by China’s top policymakers.
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Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something...
4th Jul 2025
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Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship

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4th Jul 2025
As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something about the United States, this time a brief discussion of the nature of civil-military relations in the United States. Civil-military relations (typically shortened to ‘civ-mil’ or...
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My favourite etymologies: "to curry favour" Or, the unfathomably dark depths of the equine soul
1st Mar 2025
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My favourite etymologies: "to curry favour"

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Or, the unfathomably dark depths of the equine soul
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The Final Discman Sony’s D-NE20
9th Sep 2025
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The Final Discman

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Sony’s D-NE20
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All About Aid. Well, probably more than you wanted to know, anyway.
5th Mar 2025
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All About Aid.

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Well, probably more than you wanted to know, anyway.
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Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
8th Sep 2023
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Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies

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8th Sep 2023
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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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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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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Summary of changes for February 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Mar 2024
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Summary of changes for February 2024

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1st Mar 2024
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 gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
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Historic links between the Maghreb and West Africa: On the Sanusiyya and anti-colonialism. The modern separation of Africa into a “Mediterranean” North and a “Sub-Saharan” South had little...
22nd Jun 2025
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Historic links between the Maghreb and West Africa: On the Sanusiyya and anti-colonialism.

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22nd Jun 2025
The modern separation of Africa into a “Mediterranean” North and a “Sub-Saharan” South had little basis in the historical geographies and political relationships of the pre-colonial period.
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John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds Buy Artificial Intelligence from Bookshop.org (with kickback) (without kickback) One of the...
5th Feb 2026
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John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds

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Buy Artificial Intelligence from Bookshop.org (with kickback) (without kickback) One of the better books I read in college was Artifical Intelligence: The Very Idea (1985) by philosopher John Haugeland. One of the sections I found most striking and memorable was about...
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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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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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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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Nations Double-Down on Status Years ago I noticed that when my kids tried out a new game, those who won more wanted to play it...
2nd Apr 2026
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Nations Double-Down on Status

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2nd Apr 2026
Years ago I noticed that when my kids tried out a new game, those who won more wanted to play it again.
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Why did clothing become boring? An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
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Why did clothing become boring?

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An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
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Why they stopped building wooden stupas On survivorship bias in history
14th May 2026
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Why they stopped building wooden stupas

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14th May 2026
On survivorship bias in history
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine Some people never grow up.
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine

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7th Dec 2022
Some people never grow up.
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How Sony Made TV Graphics in 1982 The Sony SMC-70G
4th Jan 2026
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How Sony Made TV Graphics in 1982

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4th Jan 2026
The Sony SMC-70G
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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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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 Rise of the West I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
29th Mar 2023
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The Rise of the West

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29th Mar 2023
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911) The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
2nd Dec 2024
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)

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2nd Dec 2024
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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America's Khrushchev moment There is no more tired cliché than Mark Twain’s quote “history rarely repeats itself, but it often...
16th Dec 2025
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America's Khrushchev moment

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16th Dec 2025
There is no more tired cliché than Mark Twain’s quote “history rarely repeats itself, but it often rhymes”.
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The West is Weak Where it Matters ... ...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
4th Jan 2023
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The West is Weak Where it Matters ...

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4th Jan 2023
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899) State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
2nd Jul 2023
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A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)

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2nd Jul 2023
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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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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9th Apr 2026
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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Can automation help make the humanities more human? Finding the negative space around machine capabilities is not a new challenge — but it is more...
6th Nov 2025
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Can automation help make the humanities more human?

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6th Nov 2025
Finding the negative space around machine capabilities is not a new challenge — but it is more important today than ever before in history
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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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Pixar’s True Story The true story of Pixar's IPO and the Silicon Valley investment bankers who took a chance on Steve...
5th Dec 2025
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Pixar’s True Story

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The true story of Pixar's IPO and the Silicon Valley investment bankers who took a chance on Steve Jobs' passion project. The post Pixar’s True Story appeared first on CHM.
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**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
2nd Sep 2023
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**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history

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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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Crowd Control: Appeasement, Vanguardism, and the General Strike : An Analysis from the Twin Cities In the following analysis, participants in the resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
1st Feb 2026
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Crowd Control: Appeasement, Vanguardism, and the General Strike : An Analysis from the Twin Cities

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In the following analysis, participants in the resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the Twin Cities reflect on the lessons of the strikes of January 23 and January 30, looking for ways to expand and strengthen the movement. On January 23, 2026, a...
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Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part III: Generals, Warlords and Vassals This is the third part (I, II) of our series looking at how Carthage’s complex, multipart armies...
1st May 2026
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Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part III: Generals, Warlords and Vassals

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1st May 2026
This is the third part (I, II) of our series looking at how Carthage’s complex, multipart armies were raised and constituted. Last time, we looked at the backbone of Carthage’s armies: North African troops levied out of Carthage’s subject communities in North Africa. These...
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Republicans have a big midterm cash advantage Democrats have alienated billionaires without winning back the working class.
1st Sep 2026
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Republicans have a big midterm cash advantage

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1st Sep 2026
Democrats have alienated billionaires without winning back the working class.
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed. They didn't know. But they know now.
1st May 2024
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.

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1st May 2024
They didn't know. But they know now.
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Abstraction Worsens Drift My Ph.D.
2nd May 2025
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Abstraction Worsens Drift

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2nd May 2025
My Ph.D.
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What is TIME? And Dates? The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
2nd Jan 2024
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What is TIME? And Dates?

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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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ReadWriteWeb on Wayback Machine vs. Old Screenshots While preparing for the publication of my “Web 2.0 memoir” here on Cybercultural, I was fortunate to...
4th Oct 2023
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ReadWriteWeb on Wayback Machine vs. Old Screenshots

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4th Oct 2023
While preparing for the publication of my “Web 2.0 memoir” here on Cybercultural, I was fortunate to discover a screenshot of ReadWriteWeb from 24 September 2005 (US). I was thrilled to come across this, for several reasons: It’s a rare screenshot of what RWW looked like at that...
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The General History of Africa a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
7th Apr 2024
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The General History of Africa

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7th Apr 2024
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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A Week Off And A New Language See you again soon
6th Sep 2023
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A Week Off And A New Language

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See you again soon
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Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns? A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
9th May 2023
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Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?

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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
4th Jul 2023
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An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns

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Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie (A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
5th Nov 2024
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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie

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5th Nov 2024
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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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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1st Nov 2021
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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You And Whose Army? NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
1st Mar 2023
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You And Whose Army?

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1st Mar 2023
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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Sophocles' Swansong Oedipus at Colonus
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Sophocles' Swansong

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Oedipus at Colonus
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The Eight Tribes of Trump and China LAST OCTOBER I published a short breakdown of four geopolitical ‘schools’ that might shape China...
31st Mar 2025
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The Eight Tribes of Trump and China

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31st Mar 2025
LAST OCTOBER I published a short breakdown of four geopolitical ‘schools’ that might shape China strategy under Trump. That piece was a pre-election preview of a much larger report I was writing for the Foreign Policy Research Institute. I published the preview as security: Trump...
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Manufactured Betrayal : A Statement from Fire Ant Movement Defense on Solidarity and Betrayal in the... On July 4, 2025, roughly a dozen people participated in a demonstration at the Prairieland Detention...
7th Jul 2026
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Manufactured Betrayal : A Statement from Fire Ant Movement Defense on Solidarity and Betrayal in the Prairieland Trials

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7th Jul 2026
On July 4, 2025, roughly a dozen people participated in a demonstration at the Prairieland Detention Center, a facility serving Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At the conclusion of the demonstration, a participant named Benjamin Song saw a police officer aim a gun at a...
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France’s Little Corner of North America In the 17th century, France had a huge empire of possessions and colonies in North America. Today,...
3rd Mar 2026
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France’s Little Corner of North America

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3rd Mar 2026
In the 17th century, France had a huge empire of possessions and colonies in North America. Today, the French flag flies over just a tiny sliver. St Pierre in 1887 photo from WikiCommons The French motive for exploring the New World was the same as Columbus’s had been–they hoped...
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But I don’t *want* to save liberal democracy UK News Report extra
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But I don’t *want* to save liberal democracy

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UK News Report extra
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Cicero and Leadership Philosophy in Action?
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Cicero and Leadership

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Philosophy in Action?
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
5th Feb 2023
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen

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5th Feb 2023
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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Do you want to be a synonym? I had a dinner with a friend tonight and we spoke of how the new era which has just begun makes lots...
2nd Apr 2025
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Do you want to be a synonym?

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2nd Apr 2025
I had a dinner with a friend tonight and we spoke of how the new era which has just begun makes lots of our knowledge, or the ways of thinking, about international relations, economic policies, poverty and wealth etc.
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Secret state The Nottingham Inquiry
1st Apr 2026
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Secret state

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1st Apr 2026
The Nottingham Inquiry
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Summary of changes for June 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Jun 2023
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Summary of changes for June 2023

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1st Jun 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Va: Putting It Together This is the first half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va) of our apparently...
8th Aug 2026
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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Va: Putting It Together

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8th Aug 2026
This is the first half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va) of our apparently five-part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized, in particular exploring the principle that armies cannot help but recreate their civilian...
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‘America, América’ by Greg Grandin review ‘America, América’ by Greg Grandin review JamesHoare Mon, 06/02/2025 - 09:07
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‘America, América’ by Greg Grandin review

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‘America, América’ by Greg Grandin review JamesHoare Mon, 06/02/2025 - 09:07
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff! Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!

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1st Nov 2024
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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May Day History The Haymarket Riot NOTE: I rerun this diary every year. In the US, May Day used to be the internationally-recognized...
1st May 2026
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May Day History The Haymarket Riot

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NOTE: I rerun this diary every year. In the US, May Day used to be the internationally-recognized day of recognition and celebration for Labor and its struggles–at least until the Soviet Union ruined it with their idiotic military parades. But in honor of the true meaning of May...
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Read Me Historian and author Patrick McCray shares stories about writing his new book that explores a...
11th Feb 2026
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Read Me

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Historian and author Patrick McCray shares stories about writing his new book that explores a variety of books about computing. The post Read Me appeared first on CHM.
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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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Summary of changes for May 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3rd Jun 2024
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Summary of changes for May 2024

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3rd Jun 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
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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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Hope is more fragile than fear.
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What Is the History of Belief Bias in Cognitive Psychology? Belief bias is a cognitive bias that makes us assess knowledge claims based on how believable they...
1st Jun 2025
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What Is the History of Belief Bias in Cognitive Psychology?

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Belief bias is a cognitive bias that makes us assess knowledge claims based on how believable they sound, rather than how logical they are. As a result, we may accept believable yet logically invalid claims, and reject unbelievable yet logically valid ones. As one of the earliest...
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Tension-Filled Black Holes Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
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Tension-Filled Black Holes

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Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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What would a socialist Wall Street look like? Xi Jinping just told us What would a socialist Wall Street look like?
3rd Feb 2026
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What would a socialist Wall Street look like? Xi Jinping just told us

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What would a socialist Wall Street look like?
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The city states of the Yoruba: a history of pre-colonial West African urbanism (1000-1900 CE) At the close of the 19th century, the Yorùbá region of South-west Nigeria was one of the most...
7th Sep 2025
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The city states of the Yoruba: a history of pre-colonial West African urbanism (1000-1900 CE)

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At the close of the 19th century, the Yorùbá region of South-west Nigeria was one of the most urbanized places in Africa.
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Summary of changes for September Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
3rd Sep 2022
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Summary of changes for September

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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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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6th Jun 2025
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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Star Trek’s Space Babes: Vintage Photos of the Women Who Captivated 1960s Audiences When Star Trek premiered in 1966, it introduced audiences to a vision of the future filled with...
3rd Sep 2026
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Star Trek’s Space Babes: Vintage Photos of the Women Who Captivated 1960s Audiences

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3rd Sep 2026
When Star Trek premiered in 1966, it introduced audiences to a vision of the future filled with advanced technology, distant worlds, and a diverse crew working together aboard the USS Enterprise. Alongside its groundbreaking ideas about space exploration and human progress, the...
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days This is the continuation – the first of several – of the fourth part of our series looking at the...
5th Sep 2025
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days

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5th Sep 2025
This is the continuation – the first of several – of the fourth part of our series looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers – a majority of all of the humans who have ever lived. Last time we discussed the survival requirements (in food and textiles) of a peasant...
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AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research A followup to "The leading AI models are now good historians"
5th Mar 2025
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AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research

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A followup to "The leading AI models are now good historians"
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Thoth and Khepri Thoth and Khepri Dean Nicholas Tue, 10/30/2018 - 00:00
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Thoth and Khepri

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30th Oct 2018
Thoth and Khepri Dean Nicholas Tue, 10/30/2018 - 00:00
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1998: How Amazon Conquered Online CD Retailers Like CDnow CDnow homepage, December 1998; via Wayback Machine. 1998 started promisingly for CDnow, a leading...
1st Jul 2025
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1998: How Amazon Conquered Online CD Retailers Like CDnow

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1st Jul 2025
CDnow homepage, December 1998; via Wayback Machine. 1998 started promisingly for CDnow, a leading online music retailer — or "e-tailer" as e-commerce sites were sometimes called at the time. "CDnow goes public with a bang," read a CNET headline on February 10, 1998: "After upping...
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The Daily Shame (耻) UK News Report #8: August 2026
1st Sep 2026
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The Daily Shame (耻)

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UK News Report #8: August 2026
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Who lost Afghanistan? George W. Bush blundered away a winnable war.
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Who lost Afghanistan?

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George W. Bush blundered away a winnable war.
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Thursday discussion post It’s 2026.
1st Jan 2026
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Thursday discussion post

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It’s 2026.
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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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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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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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Five Slogans Re Cultural Drift I’m wondering how well I might organize my cultural drift messages around a few key slogans.
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Five Slogans Re Cultural Drift

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I’m wondering how well I might organize my cultural drift messages around a few key slogans.
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What the Arctic Looked Like in the 1870s–1900s, Seen Through Old Photos At the far edges of the nineteenth-century world, the Arctic stood as both a lived homeland and a...
1st Feb 2026
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What the Arctic Looked Like in the 1870s–1900s, Seen Through Old Photos

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1st Feb 2026
At the far edges of the nineteenth-century world, the Arctic stood as both a lived homeland and a testing ground for human ambition. Long before explorers and photographers arrived with cameras and scientific instruments, Indigenous peoples such as the Inuit, Sámi, and Chukchi...
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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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1997: JavaScript Grows Up, Developers Push Boundaries By the start of 1997, JavaScript had become a regular topic for tech reference websites and books....
4th May 2021
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1997: JavaScript Grows Up, Developers Push Boundaries

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4th May 2021
By the start of 1997, JavaScript had become a regular topic for tech reference websites and books. Nick Heinle was perhaps the epitome of this, as he began 1997 with a column on WebReference.com called JavaScript Tip of the Week, released an O’Reilly book in August 1997 entitled...
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks Starting Tomorrow
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks

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1st Oct 2023
Starting Tomorrow
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Why one Chinese county spent 76 years planting trees The story of Youyu offers a window into what the CPC calls a "correct view on governance...
3rd Jul 2026
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Why one Chinese county spent 76 years planting trees

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3rd Jul 2026
The story of Youyu offers a window into what the CPC calls a "correct view on governance performance."
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The facts of the European (EU27) income convergence How is Europe becoming more equal
2nd Apr 2026
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The facts of the European (EU27) income convergence

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2nd Apr 2026
How is Europe becoming more equal
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What If Museums Were Full of Copies? Victorians once tried to make it happen
1st Jul 2026
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What If Museums Were Full of Copies?

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1st Jul 2026
Victorians once tried to make it happen
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Bubble Blog, My Web 2.0 Book: Table of Contents My book, Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 Revolution, was...
1st Nov 2023
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Bubble Blog, My Web 2.0 Book: Table of Contents

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1st Nov 2023
My book, Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 Revolution, was serialized on Cybercultural over 2024 and is now available to purchase: Paperback, US$19.99: Amazon; Bookshop.org eBook, US$9.99: Amazon Kindle Store; Apple Books; Google Play Or search for...
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures “Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
1st Aug 2024
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures

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1st Aug 2024
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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1997: The Year of DHTML As we saw in the previous post, 1997 was a year of growth for JavaScript. However, it was also a...
2nd Jun 2021
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1997: The Year of DHTML

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As we saw in the previous post, 1997 was a year of growth for JavaScript. However, it was also a year in which its limitations were recognized and a new term was coined that both embraced and extended JavaScript. DHTML, or Dynamic HTML, was essentially a combination of HTML,...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
3rd May 2024
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue

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This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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In Memoriam: Sir Antony Hoare (1934–2026) CHM remembers 2006 Fellow Sir Antony Hoare, whose work is embedded in the very foundations of the...
11th Mar 2026
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In Memoriam: Sir Antony Hoare (1934–2026)

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11th Mar 2026
CHM remembers 2006 Fellow Sir Antony Hoare, whose work is embedded in the very foundations of the digital world. The post In Memoriam: Sir Antony Hoare (1934–2026) appeared first on CHM.
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Color Photos Capture Life and Pollution Along the Ohio River in the Early 1970s In the early 1970s, the Ohio River was both a vital economic artery and a stark reminder of the...
2nd Jul 2026
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Color Photos Capture Life and Pollution Along the Ohio River in the Early 1970s

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2nd Jul 2026
In the early 1970s, the Ohio River was both a vital economic artery and a stark reminder of the environmental costs of industrial growth. Barges carried coal, steel, chemicals, and other goods through the heart of the Midwest, while millions of people depended on the river for...
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Cultural Scenario Probabilities On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
1st Dec 2024
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Cultural Scenario Probabilities

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On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
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WW1’s Togoland Campaign Some of the first shots in World War One were fired not in France but in Africa.. The Khra River...
1st Sep 2026
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WW1’s Togoland Campaign

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Some of the first shots in World War One were fired not in France but in Africa.. The Khra River Bridge in Togoland, photo from Wiki Commons. In the later half of the 19th century, Germany and Great Britain became global rivals. The British already had an empire which stretched...
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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 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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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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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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Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful Three theories
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Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful

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Three theories
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Best LittleCo of 2011: Dropbox This post as it looked in 2011. Every year since 2004, ReadWriteWeb has selected a best "little...
19th Dec 2011
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Best LittleCo of 2011: Dropbox

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This post as it looked in 2011. Every year since 2004, ReadWriteWeb has selected a best "little company." These are small companies (loosely defined as less than 100 employees) that have had a big effect on the Web over the calendar year. Last year we chose Tumblr, which...
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The Newer World Order. But can they get their heads round it?
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The Newer World Order.

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But can they get their heads round it?
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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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The Watching Menace: Crowds, Voyeurism and Photography We’re in the crowd and watching in his album of found photos from collector Robert E. Jackson’s...
2nd Jan 2026
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The Watching Menace: Crowds, Voyeurism and Photography

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2nd Jan 2026
We’re in the crowd and watching in his album of found photos from collector Robert E. Jackson’s archive. Did you push yourself into the heart of the crowd, get in with the ‘in crowd’, and did run with in the mob? Come, let’s gather round and crane our necks, see what everyone …...
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Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters “If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you...
1st Jan 2025
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Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters

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“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with nothing beneath it?” — Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes     Volker Hermes lampoons traditional...
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Demographics and American Homicides Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
21st Jan 2024
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Demographics and American Homicides

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Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor 2.0 Looks to the Sea Marine science and the blue economy are emerging as a new area of China-Pakistan cooperation,...
yesterday
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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor 2.0 Looks to the Sea

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Marine science and the blue economy are emerging as a new area of China-Pakistan cooperation, linking Gwadar with research, coastal industries and environmental management
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Centuries of Childhood The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
11th Jun 2024
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Centuries of Childhood

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The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?
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The End of PlayStation Discs Why physical media is ending on PlayStation, and why the answer is more complicated than the...
5th Jul 2026
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The End of PlayStation Discs

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5th Jul 2026
Why physical media is ending on PlayStation, and why the answer is more complicated than the backlash suggests.
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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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"Cognitive debt," Claude Code, and the negative space around AI
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On the spread of Traditional African religions during the pre-colonial period. Among the corpus of terracotta figurines discovered in the Greco-Egyptian city of Alexandria dating...
2nd Feb 2025
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On the spread of Traditional African religions during the pre-colonial period.

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2nd Feb 2025
Among the corpus of terracotta figurines discovered in the Greco-Egyptian city of Alexandria dating back to the 2nd century BC is a fine clay vessel in the form of a Nubian priestess of Isis of Philae, who is depicted in a kneeling position while performing a Greek-type mortuary...
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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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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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Chinese researchers reversed aging in primates. Yes, it's real. This will sounds too incredible to be true, yet I spent the past 2 days fact-checking this and it...
5th Oct 2025
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Chinese researchers reversed aging in primates. Yes, it's real.

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This will sounds too incredible to be true, yet I spent the past 2 days fact-checking this and it checks out: for the first time ever, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (now ranked as the world’s top research institution) have managed to systematically reverse...
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Summary of changes for February Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
28th Feb 2022
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Summary of changes for February

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28th Feb 2022
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Adelie, released a program to create slideshows. GrimGrains,...
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Academia’s Abstraction Failure One of the greatest obstacles to humanity using abstract thought to help on its biggest issues is...
4th Jan 2026
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Academia’s Abstraction Failure

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4th Jan 2026
One of the greatest obstacles to humanity using abstract thought to help on its biggest issues is this: our main professional specialists in abstract though applied to big issues are academics, and they refuse to think abstractly about how they allocate resources.
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‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review ‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review JamesHoare Mon, 11/03/2025 - 08:14
3rd Nov 2025
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‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review

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3rd Nov 2025
‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review JamesHoare Mon, 11/03/2025 - 08:14
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A history of currencies and monetary systems in the southern half of Africa African monetary systems were characterized by the concurrent use of classical (metal) currencies...
5th Oct 2025
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A history of currencies and monetary systems in the southern half of Africa

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5th Oct 2025
African monetary systems were characterized by the concurrent use of classical (metal) currencies and commodity currencies that fulfilled a variety of functions.
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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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Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
4th Jun 2023
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Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States

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4th Jun 2023
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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Summary of changes for June 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2nd May 2025
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Summary of changes for June 2025

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2nd May 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June. 100r.ca, updated costs, hauling out, united states and teapot gelcoat. Added san juan islands. Rabbit Waves, added all content links to the main page, released a new page called...
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Do YOU Know the Trojan War? Weekly Wisdom Quiz
2nd Aug 2026
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Do YOU Know the Trojan War?

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2nd Aug 2026
Weekly Wisdom Quiz
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Everything is (Somewhat) Connected. But some things are more connected than others.
1st Feb 2023
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Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.

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1st Feb 2023
But some things are more connected than others.
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
2nd Nov 2024
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream

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2nd Nov 2024
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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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 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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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
1st Oct 2024
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook

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1st Oct 2024
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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Fireside Friday, November 7, 2025 (On the Roman Strategy Debate) Hey folks! Fireside this week. I had wanted to have my post on the hoplite debate (the othismos over...
7th Nov 2025
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Fireside Friday, November 7, 2025 (On the Roman Strategy Debate)

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7th Nov 2025
Hey folks! Fireside this week. I had wanted to have my post on the hoplite debate (the othismos over othismos) ready for this week, but it’s not quite done, so I am shifting that to next week. So instead this week I want to outline another debate in ancient military history, the...
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The Border is an Open Wound : A Tree Sit in Lochiel, Arizona Halts Border Wall Construction At the border with Mexico in Arizona, for the first time in history, a tree sit is blocking the...
12th Aug 2026
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The Border is an Open Wound : A Tree Sit in Lochiel, Arizona Halts Border Wall Construction

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12th Aug 2026
At the border with Mexico in Arizona, for the first time in history, a tree sit is blocking the construction of the border wall that Trump promised his voters. This wall is cutting a ragged wound across the precious and diverse ecosystems that defy the myth that the border...
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6 Empires That Conquered Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt flourished for over three millennia, maintaining its unique culture and political...
1st Jun 2026
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6 Empires That Conquered Ancient Egypt

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1st Jun 2026
Ancient Egypt flourished for over three millennia, maintaining its unique culture and political identity. But that does not mean that Egypt was never impacted by external threats. The Egyptians were conquered several times by foreign powers, who brought their own culture and...
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where is the turtle farm Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
20th Aug 2018
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where is the turtle farm

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20th Aug 2018
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go! We left our mooring at...
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In Memoriam: Dame Stephanie Shirley, 1933–2025 CHM is saddened to share the passing of 2018 CHM Fellow Dame Stephanie Shirley, who was a pioneer in...
18th Aug 2025
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In Memoriam: Dame Stephanie Shirley, 1933–2025

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18th Aug 2025
CHM is saddened to share the passing of 2018 CHM Fellow Dame Stephanie Shirley, who was a pioneer in embracing remote, flexible work for the thriving software company she founded in the 1960s. The post In Memoriam: Dame Stephanie Shirley, 1933–2025 appeared first on CHM.
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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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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 2020
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Summary of changes for November

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30th Nov 2020
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. Continue Reading
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The third framing Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
9th Sep 2024
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The third framing

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9th Sep 2024
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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What Happened to Streetcar Suburbs? Thank streetcars for making cities nice
3rd Jun 2026
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What Happened to Streetcar Suburbs?

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3rd Jun 2026
Thank streetcars for making cities nice
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We Must Change How We Source Morality Consider three sources of opinions or habits:
3rd Jun 2026
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We Must Change How We Source Morality

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3rd Jun 2026
Consider three sources of opinions or habits:
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