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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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Immigrant assimilation in Denmark A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
17th May 2024
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Immigrant assimilation in Denmark

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17th May 2024
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
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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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2nd Jan 2024
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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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,...
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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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Respect The Social Wild While most foragers had great respect for nature, our farmer-era ancestors had less resepct.
3rd Mar 2025
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Respect The Social Wild

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3rd Mar 2025
While most foragers had great respect for nature, our farmer-era ancestors had less resepct.
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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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Summary of changes for October 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2nd Nov 2025
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Summary of changes for October 2025

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2nd Nov 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October. CCCC, added a factorization mode. Bagel, wrote about a cursed programming language idea where instead of cons cells, s-exp represent unordered lists. Rabbit Waves, released a...
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Fiction is truer than fact Willing suspension of disbelief is not a good basis for lawmaking
2nd Apr 2025
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Fiction is truer than fact

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2nd Apr 2025
Willing suspension of disbelief is not a good basis for lawmaking
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Culture Drift Predicts Decadence Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
6th Oct 2024
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Culture Drift Predicts Decadence

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6th Oct 2024
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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Collections: What Do Historians Do? For this week, I want to take a step back (we’ll be back to our series on Rings of Power next week!)...
7th Mar 2025
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Collections: What Do Historians Do?

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7th Mar 2025
For this week, I want to take a step back (we’ll be back to our series on Rings of Power next week!) and talk about the craft of history: we’ve talked about “How Your History Gets Made” from the perspective of the different people who do it – research historians, public...
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Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo Frontier models can now produce novel historical knowledge, but in a really weird way
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Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

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Frontier models can now produce novel historical knowledge, but in a really weird way
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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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FREE Obsolete Sony book for paid subscribers A DRM-free digital copy of Sony Year by Year, and a thank-you for year one.
3rd May 2026
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FREE Obsolete Sony book for paid subscribers

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3rd May 2026
A DRM-free digital copy of Sony Year by Year, and a thank-you for year one.
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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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The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously...
5th Jan 2025
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The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa

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5th Jan 2025
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously demonstrated by the golden pilgrimage of Mali's Mansa Musa in 1324, Islam had only arrived in the region at the close of the 1st millennium.
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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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Everything You Need to Know About the Ten Commandments The lists of commandments in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 are almost identical to each other,...
1st Jul 2025
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Everything You Need to Know About the Ten Commandments

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1st Jul 2025
The lists of commandments in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 are almost identical to each other, diverging significantly only in the reasons they each give for keeping the Sabbath day. This list—often called the Decalogue—is what is popularly known as the Ten Commandments. However,...
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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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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine Some people never grow up.
7th Dec 2022
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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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Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019 Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
5th Dec 2019
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Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019

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5th Dec 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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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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Summary of changes for March Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Mar 2021
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Summary of changes for March

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1st Mar 2021
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo In January 1994, two Stanford University graduate students — Jerry Yang and David Filo — created a...
10th Aug 2021
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1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo

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10th Aug 2021
In January 1994, two Stanford University graduate students — Jerry Yang and David Filo — created a web directory named “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web.” It went by various other names in early 1994 (such as “Hierarchical Hotlist” and “Jerry & Dave’s Guide to WWW”),...
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Summary of changes for August 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Sep 2023
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Summary of changes for August 2023

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1st Sep 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
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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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Hong Kong Nights 1974-1989 Greg Girard photographed Hong Kong at night between 1974 and 1989. The Canadian photographer’s...
1st Jun 2026
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Hong Kong Nights 1974-1989

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1st Jun 2026
Greg Girard photographed Hong Kong at night between 1974 and 1989. The Canadian photographer’s pictures show us a city full of promise alive after dark, much as Gerry Cranham did with his night shots. He returned to the city many times after his first visit as a teenager in 1974....
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Books To Help Us Understand The World? Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
1st Nov 2023
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Books To Help Us Understand The World?

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1st Nov 2023
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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A Narrow Gate The long history of the Khyber Pass, from the archives
2nd Aug 2026
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A Narrow Gate

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2nd Aug 2026
The long history of the Khyber Pass, from the archives
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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 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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No, the war on Iran is not about China. Europe should be much more worried. The big talking point in the West these days to justify the illegal war of aggression against Iran...
11th Mar 2026
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No, the war on Iran is not about China. Europe should be much more worried.

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11th Mar 2026
The big talking point in the West these days to justify the illegal war of aggression against Iran is to say that it is, in fact, all about China - part of a strategy to encircle China energetically and deprive them of a geopolitical partner.
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
1st Dec 2023
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays

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1st Dec 2023
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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What did they write about? : An intellectual history of Timbuktu ca. 1450-1900. No single body of primary sources in the literary heritage of West Africa has attracted as much...
6th Apr 2025
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What did they write about? : An intellectual history of Timbuktu ca. 1450-1900.

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6th Apr 2025
No single body of primary sources in the literary heritage of West Africa has attracted as much attention and attained as much celebrity as the fabled manuscripts of Timbuktu.
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How Sony Invented the 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk The Little Disk That Conquered the World
2nd Nov 2025
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How Sony Invented the 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk

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2nd Nov 2025
The Little Disk That Conquered the World
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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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Should We Be Skeptics? Is it good to question everything?
1st Apr 2024
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Should We Be Skeptics?

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1st Apr 2024
Is it good to question everything?
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Sophocles' Swansong Oedipus at Colonus
4th Aug 2023
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Sophocles' Swansong

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4th Aug 2023
Oedipus at Colonus
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goji no chaimu After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
1st Mar 2019
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goji no chaimu

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1st Mar 2019
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots “I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand   In Garry...
1st Mar 2024
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots

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1st Mar 2024
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand   In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America.   In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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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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6th Sep 2023
See you again soon
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Things Don't Always Get Better. And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
2nd Oct 2024
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Things Don't Always Get Better.

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2nd Oct 2024
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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What Did Africans Know About The Outside World? On British “Spies” and News from India
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What Did Africans Know About The Outside World?

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Bo Diddley Bo Diddley's cover of "Sixteen Tons" sounds very much like one of my favorites, "Can't Judge A Book...
3rd Mar 2026
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Bo Diddley

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3rd Mar 2026
Bo Diddley's cover of "Sixteen Tons" sounds very much like one of my favorites, "Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover". It's interesting to compare. Thinking on that it suddenly occured to me that his name might have been a play on “diddley bow”, which is a sort of homemade...
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Catharsis: "Hope against Hope" : A New Full-Length Record from an Uncompromising Hardcore Band It has been a long time now since our last music release—but desperate times call for desperate...
1st Aug 2025
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Catharsis: "Hope against Hope" : A New Full-Length Record from an Uncompromising Hardcore Band

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1st Aug 2025
It has been a long time now since our last music release—but desperate times call for desperate measures. Taking up arms against a wave of authoritarianism and despair, North Carolina’s premier hardcore band, Catharsis, has recorded a new full-length album, “Hope Against Hope.”...
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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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1st May 2026
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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BowieNet: The Inside Story of Its Creation David Bowie's website circa August-September 1998. In late 1996, just before his 50th birthday...
10th Jan 2023
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BowieNet: The Inside Story of Its Creation

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10th Jan 2023
David Bowie's website circa August-September 1998. In late 1996, just before his 50th birthday concert at Madison Square Garden and before his latest album ‘Earthling’ was released, David Bowie had quietly approved the development of what was to become his biggest internet...
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Charles V: The Holy Roman Emperor Who Shaped Europe Due to a unique set of circumstances at the beginning of the 16th century, a teenage monarch...
1st May 2025
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Charles V: The Holy Roman Emperor Who Shaped Europe

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1st May 2025
Due to a unique set of circumstances at the beginning of the 16th century, a teenage monarch inherited much of Europe, including Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and parts of Italy. Throughout his reign, Emperor Charles V fought to keep his empire together against his French,...
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The Age of Discord: Fragmented politics and unhinged discourse Today I attended in New York, at Columbia University (which still looks a bit like a fortress...
13th Sep 2025
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The Age of Discord: Fragmented politics and unhinged discourse

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13th Sep 2025
Today I attended in New York, at Columbia University (which still looks a bit like a fortress because of the students protests that took place there about 1.5 years ago) a conference at the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Institute for Policy Dialogue.
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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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The Tears of Strangers are only water On the limits of empathy
25th Oct 2024
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The Tears of Strangers are only water

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25th Oct 2024
On the limits of empathy
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Trump and the Rise of Asia My interview with "Atlantico"
3rd Dec 2024
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Trump and the Rise of Asia

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3rd Dec 2024
My interview with "Atlantico"
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Las Vegas and the Microsoft MIX Conference 2007 Stranger in a strange land; me at The Venetian, 28 April, 2007. After the Web 2.0 Expo, it was off...
5th Mar 2024
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Las Vegas and the Microsoft MIX Conference 2007

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5th Mar 2024
Stranger in a strange land; me at The Venetian, 28 April, 2007. After the Web 2.0 Expo, it was off to Las Vegas for Microsoft’s MIX conference, an event to promote the company’s web technologies. My travel, including accommodations at the Venetian on the Strip, was being paid for...
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Summary of changes for October Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
3rd Nov 2021
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Summary of changes for October

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3rd Nov 2021
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 donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn). uxn,...
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Wigs: Selling Hair in 1980s London “If your hair gone with the wind?” – sign in a wig shop, Stepney, Tower Hamlets, London   People...
2nd Sep 2026
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Wigs: Selling Hair in 1980s London

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2nd Sep 2026
“If your hair gone with the wind?” – sign in a wig shop, Stepney, Tower Hamlets, London   People were keen to fix their hair in the 1980s. Before the buzzcut became the norm for men with a thinning thatch and hair extensions for women became popular, Peter Marshall spotted high...
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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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leleuvia We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
5th Sep 2018
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leleuvia

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5th Sep 2018
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji. This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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The myth of the Hamitic race in religious and pseudo-scientific literature: an African perspective In 1845, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed that American slaveholders appealed to the...
1st Mar 2026
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The myth of the Hamitic race in religious and pseudo-scientific literature: an African perspective

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1st Mar 2026
In 1845, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed that American slaveholders appealed to the biblical claim that ‘God cursed Ham’ as a theological justification for slavery, an argument he rejected as fundamentally unscriptural.
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The 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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Should poor countries remain poor? Stock vs flow approach.
30th Mar 2024
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Should poor countries remain poor?

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30th Mar 2024
Stock vs flow approach.
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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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1st Feb 2026
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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China’s Almost-War With Taiwan and the US Just as the Cold War was beginning, China, Taiwan and the United States found themselves tangled in...
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China’s Almost-War With Taiwan and the US

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Just as the Cold War was beginning, China, Taiwan and the United States found themselves tangled in a military situation which threatened to go hot. When the Second World War ended in 1945, China was still divided. For years a civil war had raged between the Nationalist...
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Vintage Color Photos Capture New York City Streets and Daily Life in 1980 New York City in 1980 had a look that can be surprisingly difficult to picture today. The buildings...
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Vintage Color Photos Capture New York City Streets and Daily Life in 1980

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New York City in 1980 had a look that can be surprisingly difficult to picture today. The buildings are familiar, the streets are recognizable, and the crowds move with the same hurried energy, yet the details belong unmistakably to another time. Cars from another generation line...
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Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century. Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
8th Jun 2022
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Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.

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Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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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...
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Project Mercury

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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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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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You like some people, food, and TV shows more than you do others.
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Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes

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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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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...
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream

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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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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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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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How does China's victory in 1945 still define the Taiwan question? The Taiwan question arose when the Chinese nation was weak and divided, and it will be resolved when...
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How does China's victory in 1945 still define the Taiwan question?

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The Taiwan question arose when the Chinese nation was weak and divided, and it will be resolved when the Chinese nation's rejuvenation is complete.
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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...
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People On The Liberty Island Ferry in 1976

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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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The "New" Ancient City Discovering Kavala...
2nd May 2024
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The "New" Ancient City

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Discovering Kavala...
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Summary of changes for December 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Jan 2025
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Summary of changes for December 2025

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1st Jan 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December. Wiki, added alternator to engine care. Thousand Rooms, added a Danish version of the book, thank you Fyr for the translation! Punk Rabbits, completed 33 new...
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‘Central Europe’ by Luka Ivan Jukic review ‘Central Europe’ by Luka Ivan Jukic review JamesHoare Mon, 09/01/2025 - 09:10
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‘Central Europe’ by Luka Ivan Jukic review

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‘Central Europe’ by Luka Ivan Jukic review JamesHoare Mon, 09/01/2025 - 09:10
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Why I love etymologies Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
30th Apr 2024
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Why I love etymologies

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Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
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Saturday discussion post
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Saturday discussion post

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The Long Run. The future belongs to them.
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The Long Run.

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The future belongs to them.
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Wool Aliens of the British Empire Wool Aliens of the British Empire JamesHoare Tue, 04/01/2025 - 09:07
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Wool Aliens of the British Empire

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Wool Aliens of the British Empire JamesHoare Tue, 04/01/2025 - 09:07
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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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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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Passing the Buck: The story of the 2022 Wings Over Dallas air show collision
28th Feb 2025
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Passing the Buck: The story of the 2022 Wings Over Dallas air show collision

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The Politics Of Destruction. Incorporating the destruction of politics.
7th Jan 2026
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The Politics Of Destruction.

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Incorporating the destruction of politics.
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Summary of changes for January Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
31st Jan 2022
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Summary of changes for January

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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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
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a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
5th Aug 2023
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a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history

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plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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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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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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The Man Behind The History Thucydides' Life & Legacy
1st May 2026
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The Man Behind The History

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Thucydides' Life & Legacy
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Sub-replacement fertility in pre-baby boom Europe Past perspectives on fertility decline
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Sub-replacement fertility in pre-baby boom Europe

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Past perspectives on fertility decline
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AI labs need to start funding historical research Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
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AI labs need to start funding historical research

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Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
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When few do great harm Power laws in criminal behavior
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When few do great harm

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Power laws in criminal behavior
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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...
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The Eight Tribes of Trump and China

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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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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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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIa: Family Formation This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II) discussing the patterns of life of...
1st Aug 2025
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIa: Family Formation

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1st Aug 2025
This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II) discussing the patterns of life of the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of all humans who lived in our agrarian past and indeed a majority of all humans who have ever lived. Last week, we looked at...
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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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Sudan, 1898 From the archives
a week ago
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Sudan, 1898

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From the archives
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Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The untold story of EgyptAir flight 804
22nd Dec 2024
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Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The untold story of EgyptAir flight 804

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The Euro-American Split (I): Dread Possibility THERE ARE DECADES WHEN possibility is constrained in a narrow frame. The terrain has been surveyed,...
21st Feb 2025
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The Euro-American Split (I): Dread Possibility

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THERE ARE DECADES WHEN possibility is constrained in a narrow frame. The terrain has been surveyed, boundaries have been laid, and rules have been established. In such an age there is still room for high drama: The decisive round of a boxing match draws the eye despite the...
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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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rainy with a chance of mosquitoes Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
1st Apr 2017
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rainy with a chance of mosquitoes

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1st Apr 2017
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas. Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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Gap Week: October 3, 2025 Hey folks! Apologies for the lack of a post this week – a mix of teaching, writing and family...
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Gap Week: October 3, 2025

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Hey folks! Apologies for the lack of a post this week – a mix of teaching, writing and family demands had to come first. Still, so that I don’t leave you with nothing to read, here are some things I’ve been reading and watching lately you may find interesting. Over on YouTube,...
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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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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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Minnesota’s Northwest Angle The Northwest Angle is a tiny area where the US/Canada border goes … uh … a little bit squirrely....
4th Nov 2025
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Minnesota’s Northwest Angle

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The Northwest Angle is a tiny area where the US/Canada border goes … uh … a little bit squirrely. When the Revolutionary War came to an end in 1783, the newly-formed United Sates of America and the United Kingdom had to set a border between the now-independent colonies and the...
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Spacewalks: Poems for the Moon Age (1971) So to keep up with my strange postings, today is strange (bad?) space poetry. I like the drawings...
5th Dec 2025
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Spacewalks: Poems for the Moon Age (1971)

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So to keep up with my strange postings, today is strange (bad?) space poetry. I like the drawings that are VERY late 60s with spacecraft and other images mixed together. I also like his approach to using our Space Race as an inspiration to think about what people had done and...
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An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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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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The Assimilation Myth: America Persistence and the Not-So Melting Pot
9th Apr 2025
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The Assimilation Myth: America

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Persistence and the Not-So Melting Pot
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Working offgrid efficiently Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years. For the first 3 years we tested the...
13th Oct 2020
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Working offgrid efficiently

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Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years. For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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The Tsarist Mindset On the 'anti-Semitism national security emergency'
1st May 2026
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The Tsarist Mindset

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On the 'anti-Semitism national security emergency'
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Collections: The Strange Armor of Dragon Age: The Veilguard This week we’re going to have a bit of fun looking at some of the interesting armor choices for the...
7th Feb 2025
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Collections: The Strange Armor of Dragon Age: The Veilguard

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7th Feb 2025
This week we’re going to have a bit of fun looking at some of the interesting armor choices for the recent Dragon Age: The Veilguard. In a way, this is an extension of the post on “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor,” because I think Veilguard provides a pretty exceptional...
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Weekly Wisdom Quiz Ancient Egypt, Diogenes, and more!
1st Jun 2025
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Weekly Wisdom Quiz

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Ancient Egypt, Diogenes, and more!
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Burton Grad: A Tribute CHM offers a tribute to a special computing pioneer who worked with CHM for decades, sharing his...
8th Jul 2025
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Burton Grad: A Tribute

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CHM offers a tribute to a special computing pioneer who worked with CHM for decades, sharing his passion for the history of software with the world. The post Burton Grad: A Tribute appeared first on CHM.
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Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery JamesHoare Tue, 05/06/2025 - 08:55
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Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery

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Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery JamesHoare Tue, 05/06/2025 - 08:55
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The Road Not Taken. And some sacrifices along the way.
2nd Sep 2026
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The Road Not Taken.

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And some sacrifices along the way.
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OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans
31st Jul 2025
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OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery

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31st Jul 2025
Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans
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Sony 80 Is Almost Here On June 23rd, the next ObsoleteSony book launches on Kickstarter.
16th Jun 2026
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Sony 80 Is Almost Here

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16th Jun 2026
On June 23rd, the next ObsoleteSony book launches on Kickstarter.
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The End Is Not the End Seneca on Death, Dignity, and Inner Freedom
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The End Is Not the End

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Seneca on Death, Dignity, and Inner Freedom
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Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005 This post as it looked in 2005. It's been a huge year for the Web! A time of renewed optimism in...
15th Dec 2005
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Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005

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15th Dec 2005
This post as it looked in 2005. It's been a huge year for the Web! A time of renewed optimism in Silicon Valley and an incredible number of new web applications. In a sense it all started with Google's IPO in August 2004, the success of which was a positive and affirming lead-in...
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Forgotten Cities of the Swahili coast: A history of Pemba in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (ca.... Journal of African Cities: chapter 19
1st Feb 2026
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Forgotten Cities of the Swahili coast: A history of Pemba in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (ca. 600-1822 CE)

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Journal of African Cities: chapter 19
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The Obscene Art of Wallace Smith For The Banned Book Fantazius Mallare, 1922 “A memory of sanity gives diverting outline to the shadows in me. I am not a maniac like the night....
1st Dec 2025
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The Obscene Art of Wallace Smith For The Banned Book Fantazius Mallare, 1922

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“A memory of sanity gives diverting outline to the shadows in me. I am not a maniac like the night. My mind closes like darkness over the world but I enjoy myself walking amid insane houses, staring at windows that look like drunken octagons, observing lamp posts that simper with...
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Ukraine, Lenin and Sultan-Galiev Re-reading Richard Pipes’ "The Formation of the Soviet Union"
6th Aug 2026
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Ukraine, Lenin and Sultan-Galiev

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Re-reading Richard Pipes’ "The Formation of the Soviet Union"
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Crop rotation in the 14th century The Year of the Plague, part 4
1st Mar 2025
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Crop rotation in the 14th century

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The Year of the Plague, part 4
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Summary of changes for May 2026 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
31st May 2026
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Summary of changes for May 2026

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31st May 2026
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May. Wiki, documented the installation of Pino's water tank, added thermostat to engine care, and updated woodstove installation. Grimgrains, added a solar-roasted kinako recipe. Uxn,...
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How did medieval travellers communicate in foreign lands? Studies from the east and west
5th Feb 2026
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How did medieval travellers communicate in foreign lands?

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Studies from the east and west
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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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Summary of changes for November Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
30th Nov 2022
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Summary of changes for November

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe. Noodle,...
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North Pacific Logbook The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
31st Jul 2020
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North Pacific Logbook

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The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip. Continue Reading
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Stone, Scissors, Paper. Or, Europe after Ukraine.
5th Feb 2025
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Stone, Scissors, Paper.

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Or, Europe after Ukraine.
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Modern Worries Hope is more fragile than fear.
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Modern Worries

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Hope is more fragile than fear.
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Summary of changes for September 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Summary of changes for September 2024

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook. M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs. Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
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Events Listing Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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Events Listing

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Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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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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Summary of changes for December Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Jan 2023
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Summary of changes for December

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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My Interview With Tim Berners-Lee, June 2009 Tim Berners-Lee and Richard MacManus, June 2009. During my recent trip to Boston, I had the...
8th Jul 2009
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My Interview With Tim Berners-Lee, June 2009

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Tim Berners-Lee and Richard MacManus, June 2009. During my recent trip to Boston, I had the opportunity to visit MIT. At the end of a long day of meetings with various MIT tech masterminds, I made my way to the funny shaped building where the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and...
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Gold, volk and IQs Hayek’s fatal conceit
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Gold, volk and IQs

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Hayek’s fatal conceit
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True Comics, December 1948. (“Rocket Trip to the Moon” ) Something old about a trip to the Moon. Celebrating trying another trip to the Moon here is a...
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True Comics, December 1948. (“Rocket Trip to the Moon” )

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Something old about a trip to the Moon. Celebrating trying another trip to the Moon here is a non-fiction story from 1948. Stuck in an obscure comic book it tells the story of spaceflight to come. True Comics. No. 80, December 1948. (“Rocket Trip to the Moon” p. 10-15.) Chicago:...
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Top Washington strategist says U.S. bases in Asia are “all risk and little reward” Is she the canary in the coal mine
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Top Washington strategist says U.S. bases in Asia are “all risk and little reward”

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Is she the canary in the coal mine
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Twitter in 2007: The Open Platform That Wasn't The first wave of people to join Twitter was in March 2007, when it became the trendy app at the...
25th May 2023
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Twitter in 2007: The Open Platform That Wasn't

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The first wave of people to join Twitter was in March 2007, when it became the trendy app at the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. I hadn’t gone to SXSW that year, but I arrived in San Francisco the month after for Web 2.0 Expo. I don’t recall who told me about Twitter (it...
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
2nd Dec 2024
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria

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The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864) On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
5th May 2024
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Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)

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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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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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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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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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a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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The key lesson from Iran? Kim Jong Un was right about everything. It’s hard to overstate or even begin to list all the genuinely awful precedents set by Israel and...
24th Jun 2025
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The key lesson from Iran? Kim Jong Un was right about everything.

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It’s hard to overstate or even begin to list all the genuinely awful precedents set by Israel and the U.S.’s behavior vis à vis Iran in the latest war.
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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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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 Life of Flowers In Vintage Found Photographs Flowers speak a language we understand. They tell us of time and its passing. They speak of life and...
1st Apr 2025
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The Life of Flowers In Vintage Found Photographs

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Flowers speak a language we understand. They tell us of time and its passing. They speak of life and death, enduring, waiting and survival. They speak of hope and renewal. “To be a flower,” Emily Dickinson wrote in Bloom, a poem, “is profound Responsibility”. We’re thinking of...
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UFO As Aliens Odds, Spending The following are some (lognormal fit) median estimates from some X polls I just ran.
2nd Feb 2025
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UFO As Aliens Odds, Spending

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The following are some (lognormal fit) median estimates from some X polls I just ran.
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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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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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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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Fell in Love with Fire : A Documentary about the 2019 Uprising in Chile Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October...
21st Oct 2024
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Fell in Love with Fire : A Documentary about the 2019 Uprising in Chile

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Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months of rebellion by creating extensive networks of self-determination and mutual aid. This is an inspiring portrayal...
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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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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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Why Sheep Need Pigs in Sheepdog’s Clothing Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and...
2nd Aug 2026
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Why Sheep Need Pigs in Sheepdog’s Clothing

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Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas.
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Nothing In Common... Is all we have left.
3rd Jun 2026
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Nothing In Common...

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Is all we have left.
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The Route of History Geology and empire collide on the Danube
1st Feb 2026
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The Route of History

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1st Feb 2026
Geology and empire collide on the Danube
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Demographics and American Homicides Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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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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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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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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The Five Rivers of Hades in Greek Mythology and Beyond The Greek afterlife wasn’t simply a shadowy realm of nothingness. Over time, from Homer to Hesiod,...
1st May 2026
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The Five Rivers of Hades in Greek Mythology and Beyond

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The Greek afterlife wasn’t simply a shadowy realm of nothingness. Over time, from Homer to Hesiod, Plato, and Virgil, through stories and poetry, it developed features of its own, with forests, mountains, cities, and lakes being considered as part of its geography. Of great...
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Summary of changes for June Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Jul 2021
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Summary of changes for June

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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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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Who Decides Culture? And Does it Require the Classics? Erik Satie's 'Socrate'
1st Dec 2025
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Who Decides Culture? And Does it Require the Classics?

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Erik Satie's 'Socrate'
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Africa's Poor Numbers How much do we really know about African state of affairs?
22nd Jun 2025
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Africa's Poor Numbers

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How much do we really know about African state of affairs?
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Are Humans Egalitarian? A common motive for studying “egalitarian” primitive social practices is a hope of supporting...
7th Mar 2026
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Are Humans Egalitarian?

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A common motive for studying “egalitarian” primitive social practices is a hope of supporting something like the following narrative:
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2006 Web Technology Trends This post as it looked in 2006. It's December already and so it's about that time to reflect on what...
11th Dec 2006
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2006 Web Technology Trends

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This post as it looked in 2006. It's December already and so it's about that time to reflect on what has happened in Web Technology during 2006 — and ponder what 2007 may bring. Over the next few weeks Read/WriteWeb is going to publish some in-depth posts analyzing the trends and...
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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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A descriptive theory of seasons in the Mid-Atlantic [ I started thinking about this about twenty years ago, and then writing it down in 2019, but it...
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A descriptive theory of seasons in the Mid-Atlantic

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[ I started thinking about this about twenty years ago, and then writing it down in 2019, but it seems to be obsolete. I am publishing it anyway. ] The canonical division of the year into seasons in the northern temperate zone goes something like this: Spring: March 21 – June...
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After BowieNet, David Bowie Goes Dark and Shuns Social Media DavidBowie.com, January 8, 2013. After 2004, the rise of the social web — and especially platforms...
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After BowieNet, David Bowie Goes Dark and Shuns Social Media

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DavidBowie.com, January 8, 2013. After 2004, the rise of the social web — and especially platforms like MySpace and Facebook — made niche social networks like BowieNet less relevant in the culture. This shift coincided with the slow decline of BowieNet itself. The portal and ISP...
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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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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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1969: Building the oN-Line System It’s the evening of Friday the 1st of December, 2000. Nearly 32 years to the day when Douglas...
2nd Feb 2021
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1969: Building the oN-Line System

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It’s the evening of Friday the 1st of December, 2000. Nearly 32 years to the day when Douglas Engelbart presented the mother of all demos. Now 75 years old, Engelbart is at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. It’s a black-tie event, which is unusual for Engelbart to...
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The Silicon Gold Rush: How AI is Driving Development of New Chips The California Gold Rush created fortunes not only for prospectors, but also for the people selling...
1st Sep 2026
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The Silicon Gold Rush: How AI is Driving Development of New Chips

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The California Gold Rush created fortunes not only for prospectors, but also for the people selling picks and shovels. At CHM Live, computer architecture pioneers Bill Dally of NVIDIA and Norm Jouppi of Google joined CHM Fellow David Patterson to discuss the modern version of...
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The Spiral of Wrath: The crash of Armavia flight 967
5th Nov 2024
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The Spiral of Wrath: The crash of Armavia flight 967

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Pixar’s True Story The true story of Pixar's IPO and the Silicon Valley investment bankers who took a chance on Steve...
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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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Museum Ship USS Croaker The submarine USS Croaker was constructed during the Second World War, but some of its most...
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Museum Ship USS Croaker

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The submarine USS Croaker was constructed during the Second World War, but some of its most interesting work came during the Cold War. USS Croaker in 1944 The Gato-class was a very successful design, especially in the Pacific. During the Second World War, the Navy submarine...
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks Starting Tomorrow
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks

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Starting Tomorrow
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What the Internet Was Like in 2012 Gangnam Style, the most popular YouTube video of 2012. If 2012 was the year that Web 2.0 quietly...
5th Feb 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 2012

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Gangnam Style, the most popular YouTube video of 2012. If 2012 was the year that Web 2.0 quietly died, it was also when a new kind of internet was born: a more mobile and visual one, with images and videos leading the way. Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram in April 2012...
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To all the newspapers I loved The decline and fall of the print media.
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To all the newspapers I loved

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The decline and fall of the print media.
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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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They didn't know. But they know now.
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Police Mugshots of Black Trans Women Arrested for Cross-Dressing or Female Impersonation in 1970s... These police mugshots bear witness to a different time, when black trans women were arrested for...
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Police Mugshots of Black Trans Women Arrested for Cross-Dressing or Female Impersonation in 1970s Philadelphia

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These police mugshots bear witness to a different time, when black trans women were arrested for ‘cross-dressing’ or ‘female impersonation’. They were taken between 1970 and 1979 in Philadelphia when police were the jurisdiction of Police Commissioner (and later Democrat Mayor of...
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Book Update Plus My Thoughts on ChatGPT and Generative AI This month I finished the first draft of my “Web 2.0 memoir,” which weighed in at 153,000 words....
23rd Jun 2023
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Book Update Plus My Thoughts on ChatGPT and Generative AI

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This month I finished the first draft of my “Web 2.0 memoir,” which weighed in at 153,000 words. I’ve been working on this book for the past eight months; every weekday, before breakfast in the early morning. My plan is still to serialize the book here on Cybercultural, which I’m...
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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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On survivorship bias in history
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Living by Numbers How we learned to quantify ourselves
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Living by Numbers

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How we learned to quantify ourselves
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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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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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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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When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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Dr. Morell and the Patient A A review of Normal Ohler’s "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany"
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Dr. Morell and the Patient A

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A review of Normal Ohler’s "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany"
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The ideology of Donald J. Trump Does Donald J.
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The ideology of Donald J. Trump

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Does Donald J.
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback

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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations How William James, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Francis Galton thought with diagrams
22nd Apr 2026
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The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations

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How William James, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Francis Galton thought with diagrams
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When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE : A Guide from Chicago Organizers Are masked agents showing up in your town to kidnap your neighbors? Want to do your part to protect...
3rd Dec 2025
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When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE : A Guide from Chicago Organizers

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Are masked agents showing up in your town to kidnap your neighbors? Want to do your part to protect each other, but don’t know where to start? We hope this guide will help you prepare to stand up to federal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as they attempt...
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Rare 1960s Photos Offer a Fascinating Look at Swimsuit Fashion of the Era Fashion has a way of reflecting the world around it, and in the 1960s, the world was moving fast....
3rd Jun 2026
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Rare 1960s Photos Offer a Fascinating Look at Swimsuit Fashion of the Era

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Fashion has a way of reflecting the world around it, and in the 1960s, the world was moving fast. The postwar economic boom had put more disposable income in more pockets than any previous generation had known. Vacation culture was expanding, domestic air travel was becoming...
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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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Among the most refined works of African art are the distinctive white masks of southern Gabon in Central Africa.
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Summary of changes for March 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
31st Mar 2023
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Summary of changes for March 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 March. Summary Of Changes Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom. 100r.ca, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
12th Nov 2023
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work

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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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Beyond The Appearances. The joys of an Ideal world.
4th Feb 2026
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Beyond The Appearances.

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4th Feb 2026
The joys of an Ideal world.
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“To the Finland Station” Trump as a tool of history
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“To the Finland Station”

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Trump as a tool of history
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1995: PHP Launches As Server-Side CGI Scripts Toolset If CGI scripts were the start of interactive programming on the web, then PHP was the natural next...
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1995: PHP Launches As Server-Side CGI Scripts Toolset

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13th Apr 2021
If CGI scripts were the start of interactive programming on the web, then PHP was the natural next step — at least on the server-side. Just a month after Brendan Eich created the JavaScript scripting language at Netscape, an independent developer from Canada named Rasmus Lerdorf...
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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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Summary of changes for November 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
30th Nov 2024
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Summary of changes for November 2024

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30th Nov 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook. Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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Summary of changes for August Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
31st Aug 2022
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Summary of changes for August

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31st Aug 2022
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
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Transcript for Interview with Harvey Lederman on AI Welfare

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Was the world of the 1990s better than today’s? It is a fundamental question.
3rd Jan 2026
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Was the world of the 1990s better than today’s?

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3rd Jan 2026
It is a fundamental question.
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1995: From Batman Forever’s cinematic design to HTML tables Batman Forever website, launched May 1995. If 1994 was when the Web became a publishing medium, then...
3rd Mar 2026
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1995: From Batman Forever’s cinematic design to HTML tables

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3rd Mar 2026
Batman Forever website, launched May 1995. If 1994 was when the Web became a publishing medium, then 1995 was when the Web truly marked itself as a unique expressive medium. The Web became a place — a destination — rather than a mere repository for documents. In previous posts,...
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My Top 10 Web Products of 2010 This post as it looked in 2010. This month ReadWriteWeb is publishing a series of top 10 lists of...
13th Dec 2010
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My Top 10 Web Products of 2010

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13th Dec 2010
This post as it looked in 2010. This month ReadWriteWeb is publishing a series of top 10 lists of the best products of 2010, each based on a specific category. This post is a little different, in that it's my own personal top 10 list of my favorite products of 2010. I'm not...
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Sufi Rituals, Papal Editcs, and Other Fascinating Facts About the History of Coffee According to the National Coffee Association, about two-thirds of adult Americans start their day...
1st Sep 2026
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Sufi Rituals, Papal Editcs, and Other Fascinating Facts About the History of Coffee

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1st Sep 2026
According to the National Coffee Association, about two-thirds of adult Americans start their day with a cup of that precious beverage: coffee. There is something special about its bitter flavor and potent aroma that stimulates the mind and the senses. It is estimated that around...
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Ibiza 1976: In 1976, German-born photographer Walter Rudolph went to Ibiza. We’ve been there twice before, in...
1st May 2026
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Ibiza 1976:

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1st May 2026
In 1976, German-born photographer Walter Rudolph went to Ibiza. We’ve been there twice before, in the 1980s with Oriol Maspons (NSFW) and a group of British lads. In ’76, the Spanish island was a relatively untested destination for visitors to explore. In 2025, 19 million...
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Commodus’ Last Night in the Bath and the Chaos it Sparked Over the course of the late 2nd century AD, the emperor Commodus was accused of progressively...
1st Aug 2026
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Commodus’ Last Night in the Bath and the Chaos it Sparked

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1st Aug 2026
Over the course of the late 2nd century AD, the emperor Commodus was accused of progressively slipping into megalomania. Masquerading as a gladiator in the arena and presenting himself as the hero Hercules, he even had plans to rename the city of Rome after himself. Patience was...
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions. At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was...
7th Dec 2025
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions.

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7th Dec 2025
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Salaga (Ghana), settled in Kete-Krachi (*Ghana) in 1896 and composed his...
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What Is PS2 Recomp? PS2 Recompilation Explained How PS2 Recompilation Differs From Emulation, and Why the Hype Is Ahead of the Work
2nd Feb 2026
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What Is PS2 Recomp? PS2 Recompilation Explained

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2nd Feb 2026
How PS2 Recompilation Differs From Emulation, and Why the Hype Is Ahead of the Work
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What the Internet Was Like in 2002 KaZaA, one of many P2P file sharing services in 2002. In June 2002, Pew Research Center released a...
2nd Dec 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 2002

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2nd Dec 2025
KaZaA, one of many P2P file sharing services in 2002. In June 2002, Pew Research Center released a report on broadband uptake. It stated that 21% of all Internet users in America — 24 million adults — now had broadband in the home, up from just 6% two years ago. Of course,...
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