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a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy. historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
7th Jul 2024
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a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.

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7th Jul 2024
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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Your Deepest Value is Adaption You like some people, food, and TV shows more than you do others.
1st Feb 2026
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Your Deepest Value is Adaption

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1st Feb 2026
You like some people, food, and TV shows more than you do others.
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Summary of changes for March 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Apr 2024
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Summary of changes for March 2024

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1st Apr 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration. Uxn, added 2 new commands...
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‘America, América’ by Greg Grandin review ‘America, América’ by Greg Grandin review JamesHoare Mon, 06/02/2025 - 09:07
2nd Jun 2025
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‘America, América’ by Greg Grandin review

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2nd Jun 2025
‘America, América’ by Greg Grandin review JamesHoare Mon, 06/02/2025 - 09:07
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Swapping Web 2.0 Summit for PARC; and RWW Planning for 2011 Me posing next to the Xerox ParcPad from 1992, an ancestor of the iPad (which was released in 2010);...
6th Nov 2024
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Swapping Web 2.0 Summit for PARC; and RWW Planning for 2011

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6th Nov 2024
Me posing next to the Xerox ParcPad from 1992, an ancestor of the iPad (which was released in 2010); photo on the right is from a group dinner in San Francisco, October 2010. In July, as I was trying to make progress on a number of troublesome fronts — including filling in...
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War Is Complicated. And not just the fighting bit.
3rd May 2023
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War Is Complicated.

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3rd May 2023
And not just the fighting bit.
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Gold, volk and IQs Hayek’s fatal conceit
3rd Feb 2025
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Gold, volk and IQs

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3rd Feb 2025
Hayek’s fatal conceit
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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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Florida’s Barker Gang Shootout In January 1935, gangster “Ma” Barker and her son Fred were killed by the FBI in a multi-hour...
6th May 2025
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Florida’s Barker Gang Shootout

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6th May 2025
In January 1935, gangster “Ma” Barker and her son Fred were killed by the FBI in a multi-hour shootout in the little town of Ocklawaha FL. Arizona “Arrie” Clark was born in the rural town of Ash Grove MO in October 1873, where she played the fiddle and sang in the local church...
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Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters “If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you...
1st Jan 2025
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Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters

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1st Jan 2025
“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with nothing beneath it?” — Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes     Volker Hermes lampoons traditional...
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Nations Double-Down on Status Years ago I noticed that when my kids tried out a new game, those who won more wanted to play it...
2nd Apr 2026
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Nations Double-Down on Status

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2nd Apr 2026
Years ago I noticed that when my kids tried out a new game, those who won more wanted to play it again.
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1997: The Year of DHTML As we saw in the previous post, 1997 was a year of growth for JavaScript. However, it was also a...
2nd Jun 2021
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1997: The Year of DHTML

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2nd Jun 2021
As we saw in the previous post, 1997 was a year of growth for JavaScript. However, it was also a year in which its limitations were recognized and a new term was coined that both embraced and extended JavaScript. DHTML, or Dynamic HTML, was essentially a combination of HTML,...
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Jonathan Chait [ Content warning: angry, contemptuous ranting that accomplishes nothing. ] I didn't really know who...
1st Dec 2024
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Jonathan Chait

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1st Dec 2024
[ Content warning: angry, contemptuous ranting that accomplishes nothing. ] I didn't really know who Jonathan Chait was until last week when I unfortunately read this essay of his (from February 2016) on “Why Liberals Should Support a Trump Republican Nomination”. I've said a lot...
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A Shameless Plug: My “human evolution” book thought some folks here may be interested in this … I just finished up a book on human evolution,...
a week ago
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A Shameless Plug: My “human evolution” book

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thought some folks here may be interested in this … I just finished up a book on human evolution, which covers thirty-some hominin species from Sahelanthropus to sapiens. It covers what we know about each of them, what we don’t know, and what the experts are arguing over (and...
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Audiobooks Deep Dive: Latest Statistics and Trends In last week’s article, I analyzed the rise of audio formats in comparison to the decline in print...
2nd Oct 2019
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Audiobooks Deep Dive: Latest Statistics and Trends

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2nd Oct 2019
In last week’s article, I analyzed the rise of audio formats in comparison to the decline in print formats. Specifically: podcasts and audiobooks are on a bull run in the content market, whereas blogs, print books and ebooks continue their bearish tendencies. In the following two...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Woman Who Demanded Equality Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a revolutionary figure in her day, speaking out about women’s rights,...
1st Feb 2026
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Woman Who Demanded Equality

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1st Feb 2026
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a revolutionary figure in her day, speaking out about women’s rights, especially voting rights for women. Alongside fellow suffragist Susan B. Anthony, she worked tirelessly to change the way society treated women. A writer, philosopher, women’s rights...
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Babar's Moon Trip (1968) Babar's Moon Trip was a pop-up book I had never come across before. It seems influenced a little by...
13th Sep 2025
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Babar's Moon Trip (1968)

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13th Sep 2025
Babar's Moon Trip was a pop-up book I had never come across before. It seems influenced a little by the space race and the American efforts to get to the Moon.  They face problems like: not achieving escape velocity for the Moon, failure of stage separation, failure to adjust...
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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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When The Music's Over ... Turn out the lights.
6th Mar 2024
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When The Music's Over ...

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6th Mar 2024
Turn out the lights.
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14 things to know before traveling to China in 2025 Good afternoon.
2nd Jul 2025
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14 things to know before traveling to China in 2025

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2nd Jul 2025
Good afternoon.
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The "New" Ancient City Discovering Kavala...
2nd May 2024
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The "New" Ancient City

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2nd May 2024
Discovering Kavala...
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ReadWriteWeb Mistaken for Facebook Login — Hilarity Ensues As internet culture continued to go mainstream over 2010, sometimes we at ReadWriteWeb got caught in...
4th Sep 2024
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ReadWriteWeb Mistaken for Facebook Login — Hilarity Ensues

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4th Sep 2024
As internet culture continued to go mainstream over 2010, sometimes we at ReadWriteWeb got caught in the crosshairs. In February, our website was hilariously mistaken for the Facebook login page by thousands of people. We’d published a post entitled “Facebook Wants to Be Your One...
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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor 2.0 Looks to the Sea Marine science and the blue economy are emerging as a new area of China-Pakistan cooperation,...
yesterday
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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor 2.0 Looks to the Sea

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yesterday
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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Rethinking the “Technology Gap” in African History: Guns, Plows, and Furnaces. Popular literature on the history of technology maintains that the limited adoption of more complex...
7th Jun 2026
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Rethinking the “Technology Gap” in African History: Guns, Plows, and Furnaces.

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7th Jun 2026
Popular literature on the history of technology maintains that the limited adoption of more complex technologies in pre-colonial Africa placed the continent at a disadvantage in its interactions with the wider world.
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Race and slavery in the Muslim world The role of anti-blackness in the Arab slave trades
29th Mar 2026
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Race and slavery in the Muslim world

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29th Mar 2026
The role of anti-blackness in the Arab slave trades
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Mournful Mouse and the Space Trip (1963) I am not really scraping the bottom of the barrel as much as taking the time to post the most...
11th Oct 2025
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Mournful Mouse and the Space Trip (1963)

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11th Oct 2025
I am not really scraping the bottom of the barrel as much as taking the time to post the most obscure stuff in my space book collection. I collected almost any pre 1980 children's book about spaceflight. I preferred the non-fiction but picked up some strange fiction and comics...
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Everything is (Somewhat) Connected. But some things are more connected than others.
1st Feb 2023
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Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.

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1st Feb 2023
But some things are more connected than others.
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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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Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
10th Nov 2021
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Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century

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10th Nov 2021
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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Old But Not Forgotten: Old Couple Find Fun Wearing Clothes Left At Their Laundry “Dressed like that, I feel 30 years younger” – Wan-ji, Want Show Was Young     For decades married...
2nd Nov 2025
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Old But Not Forgotten: Old Couple Find Fun Wearing Clothes Left At Their Laundry

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2nd Nov 2025
“Dressed like that, I feel 30 years younger” – Wan-ji, Want Show Was Young     For decades married couple Hsu Sho-Er, 84, and Chang Wan-Ji, 83, ran the Wansho Laundry in Taichung, Taiwan. Over the years many people left clothes behind. Hundreds of items were left unclaimed for a...
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How the Ancient Game of Chess Spread Across the World Virtually everyone is familiar with chess, even if they are not avid players themselves. The game is...
1st Mar 2026
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How the Ancient Game of Chess Spread Across the World

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1st Mar 2026
Virtually everyone is familiar with chess, even if they are not avid players themselves. The game is a recurring motif in many of our films, TV shows, stories, and other media. Every year, thousands of chess players compete for prestige at the international level to secure their...
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The Rise of the West I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
29th Mar 2023
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The Rise of the West

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29th Mar 2023
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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Summary of changes for September 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Oct 2025
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Summary of changes for September 2025

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1st Oct 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September. Noodle, redesigned the interface. Wiki, updated with a new photo. Punk Rabbits, completed 19 new rabbits(#35-53). NanoTalk, released a Nanochat client, written in Tal. As...
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China found in U.S. archives an energy source that could power its future for 20,000 years - and... I’m not exaggerating.
6th Nov 2025
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China found in U.S. archives an energy source that could power its future for 20,000 years - and made it work

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6th Nov 2025
I’m not exaggerating.
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book “I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
1st Jan 2024
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book

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1st Jan 2024
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious? I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
30th Sep 2023
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Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?

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30th Sep 2023
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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How our toy octopuses got revenge on a Philadelphia traffic court judge [ Content warning: possibly amusing, but silly and pointless ] My wife Lorrie wrote this on 31...
25th Apr 2025
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How our toy octopuses got revenge on a Philadelphia traffic court judge

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25th Apr 2025
[ Content warning: possibly amusing, but silly and pointless ] My wife Lorrie wrote this on 31 January 2013: I got an e-mail from Husband titled, "The mills of Fenchurch grind slow, but they grind exceeding small." This silliness, which is off-the-charts silly, is going to...
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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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1st Mar 2025
The Year of the Plague, part 4
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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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George Orwell's essay on the atomic bomb anticipates Nineteen Eighty-Four Lately I've been reading Orwell's collected work from 1945–1950, which was being deaccessioned from...
4 weeks ago
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George Orwell's essay on the atomic bomb anticipates Nineteen Eighty-Four

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4 weeks ago
Lately I've been reading Orwell's collected work from 1945–1950, which was being deaccessioned from the library. It opens with a short but fascinating essay on , published 19 October 1945. It seems clear that Orwell's thinking about this development led directly to his novel ,...
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Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
30th Mar 2023
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Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes

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30th Mar 2023
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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Why drug history? Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
1st Feb 2024
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Why drug history?

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1st Feb 2024
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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5 Unexpected Philosophers Who Influenced St. Thomas Aquinas Born ca. 1225 AD, Thomas Aquinas is revered in some circles as highly as the ancient Greek and later...
1st Apr 2026
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5 Unexpected Philosophers Who Influenced St. Thomas Aquinas

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1st Apr 2026
Born ca. 1225 AD, Thomas Aquinas is revered in some circles as highly as the ancient Greek and later Enlightenment-era thinkers. While the medieval philosopher’s works are still studied in many universities, ethicists and academics try to further interpret Thomistic thought,...
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Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
1st Jan 2023
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Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century

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1st Jan 2023
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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The spread of British decline porn Why do Americans have such a bad image of our perfectly run country?
2nd Dec 2025
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The spread of British decline porn

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2nd Dec 2025
Why do Americans have such a bad image of our perfectly run country?
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Summary of changes for November Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
30th Nov 2020
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Summary of changes for November

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30th Nov 2020
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Continue Reading
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and... For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
7th Jun 2024
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and Clients

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7th Jun 2024
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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How Sony Lost Control of Digital Music Control, DRM, and the moment distribution stopped being governable
1st Mar 2026
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How Sony Lost Control of Digital Music

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1st Mar 2026
Control, DRM, and the moment distribution stopped being governable
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William Steig’s Illustrations for Wilhelm Reich’s Listen, Little Man!, 1945 “They call you ‘Little Man’, ‘Common Man’; they say a new era has begun, the ‘Era of the Common...
1st Feb 2026
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William Steig’s Illustrations for Wilhelm Reich’s Listen, Little Man!, 1945

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1st Feb 2026
“They call you ‘Little Man’, ‘Common Man’; they say a new era has begun, the ‘Era of the Common Man’. It isn’t you who says so, Little Man. It is they, the Vice Presidents of great nations, promoted labor leaders, repentant sons of bourgeois families, statesmen and philosophers....
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2006 Web Technology Trends This post as it looked in 2006. It's December already and so it's about that time to reflect on what...
11th Dec 2006
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2006 Web Technology Trends

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11th Dec 2006
This post as it looked in 2006. It's December already and so it's about that time to reflect on what has happened in Web Technology during 2006 — and ponder what 2007 may bring. Over the next few weeks Read/WriteWeb is going to publish some in-depth posts analyzing the trends and...
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My favourite etymologies: the dog days of summer Let’s get canicular
7th Sep 2026
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My favourite etymologies: the dog days of summer

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7th Sep 2026
Let’s get canicular
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Fireside Friday, March 6, 2026 Hey everyone, we have a Fireside this week and then next week we’ll get back to our somewhat silly...
6th Mar 2026
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Fireside Friday, March 6, 2026

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6th Mar 2026
Hey everyone, we have a Fireside this week and then next week we’ll get back to our somewhat silly break discussing the mechanics of warfare in Dune. But I did want to stop to chatter a bit about something that came up in that discussion, which is something about the nature of...
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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 key lesson from Iran? Kim Jong Un was right about everything. It’s hard to overstate or even begin to list all the genuinely awful precedents set by Israel and...
24th Jun 2025
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The key lesson from Iran? Kim Jong Un was right about everything.

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24th Jun 2025
It’s hard to overstate or even begin to list all the genuinely awful precedents set by Israel and the U.S.’s behavior vis à vis Iran in the latest war.
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Perspectives and outcomes of Africa's age of exploration Nearly a century after the Kushite envoys of Queen Amanirenas visited the court of Augustus in...
3rd Aug 2025
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Perspectives and outcomes of Africa's age of exploration

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3rd Aug 2025
Nearly a century after the Kushite envoys of Queen Amanirenas visited the court of Augustus in 22-20BC, a pair of Roman centurions was sent on a reconnaissance mission to Kush in 61-63 CE to gather intelligence for a planned campaign against the kingdom by the Emperor Nero.
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Project Mercury Project Mercury was America’s entry into the Space Race and was intended to put a human into space...
4th Mar 2025
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Project Mercury

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4th Mar 2025
Project Mercury was America’s entry into the Space Race and was intended to put a human into space before the Soviet Union did. The Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite in October 1957 caused a near-panic in the United States and led to desperate calls to “catch up”. President...
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The General History of Africa a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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The General History of Africa

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a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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After "Victory." How much is enough?
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After "Victory."

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How much is enough?
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Academia’s Abstraction Failure One of the greatest obstacles to humanity using abstract thought to help on its biggest issues is...
4th Jan 2026
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Academia’s Abstraction Failure

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One of the greatest obstacles to humanity using abstract thought to help on its biggest issues is this: our main professional specialists in abstract though applied to big issues are academics, and they refuse to think abstractly about how they allocate resources.
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Chinese researchers reversed aging in primates. Yes, it's real. This will sounds too incredible to be true, yet I spent the past 2 days fact-checking this and it...
5th Oct 2025
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Chinese researchers reversed aging in primates. Yes, it's real.

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This will sounds too incredible to be true, yet I spent the past 2 days fact-checking this and it checks out: for the first time ever, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (now ranked as the world’s top research institution) have managed to systematically reverse...
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Spicy Noodles: Dave Winer and the Web 2.0 Workgroup Celebrating the formation of the Web 2.0 Workgroup at Jing Jing, Palo Alto. From left to right: Gabe...
4th Dec 2023
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Spicy Noodles: Dave Winer and the Web 2.0 Workgroup

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Celebrating the formation of the Web 2.0 Workgroup at Jing Jing, Palo Alto. From left to right: Gabe Rivera, Dave Winer, me, Mike Arrington, Fred Oliveira; photo by Dave Winer. During my stay at the TechCrunch ranch, Mike Arrington, Fred Oliveira and I had been discussing how to...
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Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns? A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
9th May 2023
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Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?

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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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Weekend Roundup Classics Gifts!
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Weekend Roundup

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Classics Gifts!
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What the Internet Was Like in 2001 Apple iTunes, the Rip Mix Burn advert, 2001; via YouTube (video embedded below). The year 2001 began...
5th Nov 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 2001

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Apple iTunes, the Rip Mix Burn advert, 2001; via YouTube (video embedded below). The year 2001 began with optimism — in January, Wikipedia debuted and Apple launched iTunes. But by year’s end the mood had shifted. The dot-com crash had drained Silicon Valley’s exuberance, Napster...
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Republican Debates on China: A Political Compass MANY HAVE TRIED to pin Trump to Heritage’s “Project 2025.” The Trump campaign has not only refused...
31st Oct 2024
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Republican Debates on China: A Political Compass

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MANY HAVE TRIED to pin Trump to Heritage’s “Project 2025.” The Trump campaign has not only refused to endorse Project 2025—they have refused to endorse any detailed policy plan whatsoever. Trump prefers to keep his options open. One unanticipated benefit of this approach is that...
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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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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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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...
13th Apr 2021
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1995: PHP Launches As Server-Side CGI Scripts Toolset

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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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Baseball on the Moon We want to adapt baseball to be played on the moon. Is there any way to make it work? My first...
18th Mar 2025
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Baseball on the Moon

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We want to adapt baseball to be played on the moon. Is there any way to make it work? My first impression is: no, for several reasons. The pitched ball will go a little faster (no air resistance) but breaking balls are impossible (ditto). So the batter will find it easier to...
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Alone With Our Thoughts. Lost in the supermarket of opinions.
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Alone With Our Thoughts.

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Lost in the supermarket of opinions.
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Why China Filed Plans for 203,000 Satellites The strategic thinking behind Beijing’s record ITU filings, what they mean in practice for everyday...
15th Jan 2026
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Why China Filed Plans for 203,000 Satellites

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The strategic thinking behind Beijing’s record ITU filings, what they mean in practice for everyday connectivity, and the unavoidable global competition for orbital and spectrum resources.
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How Do You Know That Document Is Real? A history of verification
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How Do You Know That Document Is Real?

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A history of verification
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Transcript for Interview with Harvey Lederman on AI Welfare 1.
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Transcript for Interview with Harvey Lederman on AI Welfare

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What the Internet Was Like in 1994 Netscape's mascot, Mozilla, in 1994; artist: Dave Titus. The World Wide Web was in its infancy as...
5th Mar 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 1994

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Netscape's mascot, Mozilla, in 1994; artist: Dave Titus. The World Wide Web was in its infancy as 1994 dawned. There were just 623 websites in the entire world at the beginning of the year. By June 1994, that figure had risen to 2,738 and by year's end it had tipped over 10,000....
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Summary of changes for February 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
28th Feb 2023
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Summary of changes for February 2023

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
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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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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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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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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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Cicero and Leadership Philosophy in Action?
3rd Jan 2025
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Cicero and Leadership

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Philosophy in Action?
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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...
2nd Dec 2025
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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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doldrumming Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
20th Nov 2018
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doldrumming

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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951 Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
1st Jul 2024
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951

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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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What the Internet Was Like in 2011 2011 was the year Facebook, the world’s leading social network, launched Timeline and introduced its...
10th Jan 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 2011

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2011 was the year Facebook, the world’s leading social network, launched Timeline and introduced its algorithmic feed. These changes were partly influenced by a formidable new competitor: Google+. Meanwhile, Android overtook Apple's iOS as the leading mobile platform, Microsoft...
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Tension-Filled Black Holes Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
6th Nov 2024
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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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Filter Bubbles and the RWW Real-Time Web Summit, June 2010 Me at our first NYC event, in June 2010. Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid. It was another late...
2nd Oct 2024
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Filter Bubbles and the RWW Real-Time Web Summit, June 2010

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Me at our first NYC event, in June 2010. Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid. It was another late arrival coming into New York — near midnight on Sunday, June 6 — but this time I had booked a hotel in Manhattan. It was a fifteen-minute walk from the Metropolitan Pavilion, our...
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Color Photos Capture Life and Pollution Along the Ohio River in the Early 1970s In the early 1970s, the Ohio River was both a vital economic artery and a stark reminder of the...
2nd Jul 2026
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Color Photos Capture Life and Pollution Along the Ohio River in the Early 1970s

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2nd Jul 2026
In the early 1970s, the Ohio River was both a vital economic artery and a stark reminder of the environmental costs of industrial growth. Barges carried coal, steel, chemicals, and other goods through the heart of the Midwest, while millions of people depended on the river for...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
6th Oct 2023
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts

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This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE) Journal of African cities: chapter 15
6th Oct 2024
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The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)

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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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Socrates' Wayward Student ...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
2nd Jun 2023
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Socrates' Wayward Student

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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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The Seven Deadly Sins Under Death’s Dominion by James Ensor, 1904 “…the eternal black night, death under the colourless earth” – James Ensor on his dread of death    ...
1st Feb 2025
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The Seven Deadly Sins Under Death’s Dominion by James Ensor, 1904

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“…the eternal black night, death under the colourless earth” – James Ensor on his dread of death     Belgian painter and printmaker James Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) etched his Seven Deadly Sins in 1904. To hammer home the message of human foolishness, malice and the...
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The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to... The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
1st Dec 2024
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The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to Eastern Congo.

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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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Summary of changes for February Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
28th Feb 2021
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Summary of changes for February

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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1996: JavaScript Annoyances and Meeting the DOM “Hi, I’m Brendan Eich, welcome to my homepage.” Via Wayback Machine. The Netscape Navigator 2.0...
5th Jan 2021
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1996: JavaScript Annoyances and Meeting the DOM

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5th Jan 2021
“Hi, I’m Brendan Eich, welcome to my homepage.” Via Wayback Machine. The Netscape Navigator 2.0 browser was finally released in March 1996, almost a year after Brendan Eich joined Netscape with the express purpose of creating a scripting language for the web. He’d developed the...
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Summary of changes for February Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
28th Feb 2022
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Summary of changes for February

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Adelie, released a program to create slideshows. GrimGrains,...
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The Life of Flowers In Vintage Found Photographs Flowers speak a language we understand. They tell us of time and its passing. They speak of life and...
1st Apr 2025
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The Life of Flowers In Vintage Found Photographs

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1st Apr 2025
Flowers speak a language we understand. They tell us of time and its passing. They speak of life and death, enduring, waiting and survival. They speak of hope and renewal. “To be a flower,” Emily Dickinson wrote in Bloom, a poem, “is profound Responsibility”. We’re thinking of...
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Plato’s Last Word to Dionysius Plato’s Last Word to Dionysius JamesHoare Tue, 07/01/2025 - 08:00
1st Jul 2025
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Plato’s Last Word to Dionysius

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Plato’s Last Word to Dionysius JamesHoare Tue, 07/01/2025 - 08:00
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Watch the First 2+ Hours of MTV’s Inaugural Broadcast (August 1, 1981) Not everyone on August 1, 1981 had a VCR at their disposal, and not everybody stayed up until...
3rd Feb 2025
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Watch the First 2+ Hours of MTV’s Inaugural Broadcast (August 1, 1981)

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3rd Feb 2025
Not everyone on August 1, 1981 had a VCR at their disposal, and not everybody stayed up until midnight. But fortunately at least one person did, in order to tape the first two hours of a new cable channel called MTV: Music Television. Did they know it would be historic? MTV...
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024! Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
7th Sep 2024
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024!

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7th Sep 2024
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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Summary of changes for July Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Aug 2021
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Summary of changes for July

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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa. a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
7th Jan 2024
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a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.

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a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899) State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
2nd Jul 2023
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A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)

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2nd Jul 2023
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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Bo Diddley Bo Diddley's cover of "Sixteen Tons" sounds very much like one of my favorites, "Can't Judge A Book...
3rd Mar 2026
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Bo Diddley

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Bo Diddley's cover of "Sixteen Tons" sounds very much like one of my favorites, "Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover". It's interesting to compare. Thinking on that it suddenly occured to me that his name might have been a play on “diddley bow”, which is a sort of homemade...
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
2nd Nov 2024
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream

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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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Of fascination and addiction Knowledge of learning and deep knowledge
3rd Oct 2025
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Of fascination and addiction

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3rd Oct 2025
Knowledge of learning and deep knowledge
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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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Some people never grow up.
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Johnny Rotten in Jamaica, 1978 ‘First thing that happened at the airport was this group of Rastas saw us and they were, like ’hey...
2nd Jul 2026
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Johnny Rotten in Jamaica, 1978

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‘First thing that happened at the airport was this group of Rastas saw us and they were, like ’hey Johnny Rotten mon! God save the Queen!’. And we looked at each other and smiled and were like, “we gonna be cool here”‘. —Dennis Morris   John Lydon still knows how to piss people...
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What the Arctic Looked Like in the 1870s–1900s, Seen Through Old Photos At the far edges of the nineteenth-century world, the Arctic stood as both a lived homeland and a...
1st Feb 2026
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What the Arctic Looked Like in the 1870s–1900s, Seen Through Old Photos

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1st Feb 2026
At the far edges of the nineteenth-century world, the Arctic stood as both a lived homeland and a testing ground for human ambition. Long before explorers and photographers arrived with cameras and scientific instruments, Indigenous peoples such as the Inuit, Sámi, and Chukchi...
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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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The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962) As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book...
17th Jan 2025
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The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962)

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17th Jan 2025
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book from Cities Service gasoline. It probably was a give-away with purchase. It reflects the early 60s where the Mercury launches had taken place and we were looking ahead to the future....
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To all the newspapers I loved The decline and fall of the print media.
2nd Feb 2024
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To all the newspapers I loved

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2nd Feb 2024
The decline and fall of the print media.
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The Assimilation Myth Across the world, ethnic socioeconomic disparities are here to stay
9th May 2025
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The Assimilation Myth

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9th May 2025
Across the world, ethnic socioeconomic disparities are here to stay
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What Did Africans Know About The Outside World? On British “Spies” and News from India
a week ago
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What Did Africans Know About The Outside World?

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On British “Spies” and News from India
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Are We Doing Enough To Archive Digital Culture? Have you ever had any of these issues lately while trying to access content? You wrote a blog in the...
14th Aug 2019
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Are We Doing Enough To Archive Digital Culture?

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14th Aug 2019
Have you ever had any of these issues lately while trying to access content? You wrote a blog in the early to late 2000s, but it’s long since gone (or changed irrevocably, in my case). Can you still experience that blog in all its noughties HTML glory, via the Wayback Machine?...
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The Euthyphro problem 'Is that which is moral moral because God commands it?, or does God command that which is moral...
1st Oct 2025
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The Euthyphro problem

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1st Oct 2025
'Is that which is moral moral because God commands it?, or does God command that which is moral because it is moral?'
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The Sense Of An Ending. But right back where we started from.
7th Aug 2024
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The Sense Of An Ending.

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But right back where we started from.
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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 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....
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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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‘Sacred Britannia’ by Miranda Aldhouse-Green ‘Sacred Britannia’ by Miranda Aldhouse-Green H T Fri, 11/02/2018 - 00:00
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‘Sacred Britannia’ by Miranda Aldhouse-Green

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‘Sacred Britannia’ by Miranda Aldhouse-Green H T Fri, 11/02/2018 - 00:00
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From Dusk Til Dawn: 29 Found Photos Taken In Changing Light We grow accustomed to the Dark — When Light is put away — As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp To...
1st Jul 2025
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From Dusk Til Dawn: 29 Found Photos Taken In Changing Light

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We grow accustomed to the Dark — When Light is put away — As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp To witness her Good bye — Emily Dickinson  They say that the glow of the sky you see at night isn’t starlight but leftover light from the Big Bang. Light is ancient and magical. Away …...
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Cloud Gate, Chicago’s “Bean” This futuristic sculpture in Millennium Park has become an icon of Chicago. In 1997, the city of...
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Cloud Gate, Chicago’s “Bean”

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This futuristic sculpture in Millennium Park has become an icon of Chicago. In 1997, the city of Chicago was making plans for a patch of land near Grant Park on the shore of Lake Michigan that had previously been a parking lot and a railroad yard. At first, there was talk of...
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All About the Telescope (1980) Klushantsev, Pavel. Illustrated by Voishvillo, E., B. Kalaushin, and B. Starodubtsev. All About the...
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All About the Telescope (1980)

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Klushantsev, Pavel. Illustrated by Voishvillo, E., B. Kalaushin, and B. Starodubtsev. All About the Telescope. Translated by Jan Butler. Moscow: Progress Publishers. (70 p.) 1980 This book was a translation of the 1972 Russian book: Klushantsev, Pavel. Illustrated by Voishvillo,...
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All About Aid. Well, probably more than you wanted to know, anyway.
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All About Aid.

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Well, probably more than you wanted to know, anyway.
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Culture Drift Predicts Decadence Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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Culture Drift Predicts Decadence

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Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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Summary of changes for July 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4th Aug 2024
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Summary of changes for July 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 July. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added Sitka, and completed route in us se alaska. Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu. Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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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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And fiddling won't fix it.
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
21st Jul 2023
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR

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21st Jul 2023
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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Sub-replacement fertility in pre-baby boom Europe Past perspectives on fertility decline
20th Feb 2025
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Sub-replacement fertility in pre-baby boom Europe

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Past perspectives on fertility decline
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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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The Intellectual Foundations of African Proto-Nationalism and the “invention” of Nations in the 19th... “What led to this production was not a burning desire of the author to appear in print, but a purely...
4th Jan 2026
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The Intellectual Foundations of African Proto-Nationalism and the “invention” of Nations in the 19th Century

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“What led to this production was not a burning desire of the author to appear in print, but a purely patriotic motive, that the history of our fatherland might not be lost in oblivion.”
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ReadWriteWeb Turns 20: Writing to the Web Then and Now Twenty years ago, on 20 April 2003, I published the first post on a blog I had just started....
20th Apr 2023
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ReadWriteWeb Turns 20: Writing to the Web Then and Now

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Twenty years ago, on 20 April 2003, I published the first post on a blog I had just started. Entitled The Read/Write Web, it was a manifesto of sorts. The post was filled with optimism for the web and made the case that a new era was just beginning. A “Web 2.0,” if you will...
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War In Our Time? We need the men in white coats.
3rd Sep 2025
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War In Our Time?

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We need the men in white coats.
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The ideology of Donald J. Trump Does Donald J.
12th Nov 2024
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The ideology of Donald J. Trump

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Does Donald J.
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1997: Netscape Crossware vs. the Windows Web After Microsoft upped the ante in the browser market in 1996 by integrating Internet Explorer 3.0...
9th Mar 2021
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1997: Netscape Crossware vs. the Windows Web

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9th Mar 2021
After Microsoft upped the ante in the browser market in 1996 by integrating Internet Explorer 3.0 into Windows, Netscape began the new year with a renewed focus on the open web. Co-founder and CTO Marc Andreessen, along with the Netscape product team, introduced a new strategy...
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1995: The Birth of JavaScript Netscape Navigator 2, which featured the first version of JavaScript; image via...
22nd Dec 2020
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1995: The Birth of JavaScript

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Netscape Navigator 2, which featured the first version of JavaScript; image via Wikimedia. JavaScript was invented in a two-week flurry in May 1995 by Brendan Eich, at the time a newly hired developer at browser company Netscape. The project was initiated by Netscape because of a...
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Star Trek’s Space Babes: Vintage Photos of the Women Who Captivated 1960s Audiences When Star Trek premiered in 1966, it introduced audiences to a vision of the future filled with...
3rd Sep 2026
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Star Trek’s Space Babes: Vintage Photos of the Women Who Captivated 1960s Audiences

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When Star Trek premiered in 1966, it introduced audiences to a vision of the future filled with advanced technology, distant worlds, and a diverse crew working together aboard the USS Enterprise. Alongside its groundbreaking ideas about space exploration and human progress, the...
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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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2026 CHM Awards Ceremony CHM honored five new Fellows and the inaugural Silicon Valley Laureate at a gala celebration that...
1st May 2026
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2026 CHM Awards Ceremony

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CHM honored five new Fellows and the inaugural Silicon Valley Laureate at a gala celebration that highlighted the teamwork and collaboration behind lasting success. The post 2026 CHM Awards Ceremony appeared first on CHM.
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One Way Or Another .... We're going to get you.
7th Jun 2023
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One Way Or Another ....

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We're going to get you.
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A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD Journal of African cities chapter 6
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A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD

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Journal of African cities chapter 6
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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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The Little Disk That Conquered the World
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Futarchy For Fundraising The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of...
2nd Apr 2025
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Futarchy For Fundraising

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2nd Apr 2025
The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations (quotes below), by Donald Chew, persuaded me that for-profit-firm capitalism has varied quite a lot over space and time, and that the U.S.
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Summary of changes for June 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Jun 2023
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Summary of changes for June 2023

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1st Jun 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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Age and infertility Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
29th Dec 2024
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Age and infertility

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29th Dec 2024
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
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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...
1st Dec 2021
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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 Donsol, designed a donsol turnip. Uxn, wrote a file browser...
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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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5th Aug 2023
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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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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8th Jun 2022
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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Five Slogans Re Cultural Drift I’m wondering how well I might organize my cultural drift messages around a few key slogans.
a week ago
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Five Slogans Re Cultural Drift

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I’m wondering how well I might organize my cultural drift messages around a few key slogans.
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The Missile Will Always Get Through. But who is prepared to admit it?
4th Dec 2024
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.

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4th Dec 2024
But who is prepared to admit it?
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
1st Oct 2024
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook

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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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99 percent Utopia and money For full happiness is possible only in stagnation.
6th May 2026
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99 percent Utopia and money

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For full happiness is possible only in stagnation.
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The Eight Tribes of Trump and China LAST OCTOBER I published a short breakdown of four geopolitical ‘schools’ that might shape China...
31st Mar 2025
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The Eight Tribes of Trump and China

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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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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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Will The West Eat Itself? Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
5th Jul 2023
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Will The West Eat Itself?

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Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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Merry Mouse and His Trip to the Moon (1953) My next 4 posts are celebrating children's illustrated fiction about going to the Moon. Even though...
1st Aug 2025
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Merry Mouse and His Trip to the Moon (1953)

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My next 4 posts are celebrating children's illustrated fiction about going to the Moon. Even though I have been collecting these children's book for over 30 years it still is very exciting to find one that you never knew existed. Jack Coggins was an amazing space artist in the...
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Voices from the Uprising in Indonesia : Affan Kurniawan Lives on in the Streets A wave of protest exploded across Indonesia at the end of August 2025. In this report, we present an...
4th Sep 2025
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Voices from the Uprising in Indonesia : Affan Kurniawan Lives on in the Streets

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A wave of protest exploded across Indonesia at the end of August 2025. In this report, we present an interview with an imprisoned Indonesian anarchist author along with various statements from anarchist groups that have reached English-speaking outlets since the uprising...
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A history of currencies and monetary systems in the southern half of Africa African monetary systems were characterized by the concurrent use of classical (metal) currencies...
5th Oct 2025
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A history of currencies and monetary systems in the southern half of Africa

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African monetary systems were characterized by the concurrent use of classical (metal) currencies and commodity currencies that fulfilled a variety of functions.
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When few do great harm Power laws in criminal behavior
23rd Apr 2023
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When few do great harm

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Power laws in criminal behavior
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‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review ‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review JamesHoare Mon, 11/03/2025 - 08:14
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‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review

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‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review JamesHoare Mon, 11/03/2025 - 08:14
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The break-down of the representative system and the road to dictatorship (on the example of Serbia)
17th Mar 2025
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The break-down of the representative system and the road to dictatorship

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(on the example of Serbia)
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Summary of changes for April 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2nd May 2024
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Summary of changes for April 2024

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2nd May 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
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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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Republicans have a big midterm cash advantage Democrats have alienated billionaires without winning back the working class.
1st Sep 2026
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Republicans have a big midterm cash advantage

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1st Sep 2026
Democrats have alienated billionaires without winning back the working class.
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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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The Border is an Open Wound : A Tree Sit in Lochiel, Arizona Halts Border Wall Construction At the border with Mexico in Arizona, for the first time in history, a tree sit is blocking the...
12th Aug 2026
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The Border is an Open Wound : A Tree Sit in Lochiel, Arizona Halts Border Wall Construction

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At the border with Mexico in Arizona, for the first time in history, a tree sit is blocking the construction of the border wall that Trump promised his voters. This wall is cutting a ragged wound across the precious and diverse ecosystems that defy the myth that the border...
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Weekend Roundup Quiz Time!
2nd Feb 2025
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Weekend Roundup

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Quiz Time!
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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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Jolted and Jumbled: Riding in a Sedan Chair in the 18th Century If there is one form of transport that perhaps typifies the 18th century more than any other, it is...
19th Aug 2025
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Jolted and Jumbled: Riding in a Sedan Chair in the 18th Century

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19th Aug 2025
If there is one form of transport that perhaps typifies the 18th century more than any other, it is a sedan chair.  Recently I have been doing some work on stage coaches, and the experience of what it was actually like to travel in one. This is already turning up some interesting...
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Intellectual narcissism or political relevance Did imperialism just reappear yesterday?
1st Feb 2026
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Intellectual narcissism or political relevance

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1st Feb 2026
Did imperialism just reappear yesterday?
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Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023 Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
1st Sep 2023
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Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023

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1st Sep 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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The Ocarina The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
22nd Oct 2024
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The Ocarina

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22nd Oct 2024
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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Summary of changes for September Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
3rd Sep 2022
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Summary of changes for September

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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After BowieNet, David Bowie Goes Dark and Shuns Social Media DavidBowie.com, January 8, 2013. After 2004, the rise of the social web — and especially platforms...
8th Jan 2026
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After BowieNet, David Bowie Goes Dark and Shuns Social Media

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8th Jan 2026
DavidBowie.com, January 8, 2013. After 2004, the rise of the social web — and especially platforms like MySpace and Facebook — made niche social networks like BowieNet less relevant in the culture. This shift coincided with the slow decline of BowieNet itself. The portal and ISP...
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Summary of changes for January Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
31st Jan 2021
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Summary of changes for January

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31st Jan 2021
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Continue Reading
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Democracy The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
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Democracy

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1st Nov 2024
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
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Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work? The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
11th Jul 2023
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Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?

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The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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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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In Memoriam: Sir Antony Hoare (1934–2026) CHM remembers 2006 Fellow Sir Antony Hoare, whose work is embedded in the very foundations of the...
11th Mar 2026
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In Memoriam: Sir Antony Hoare (1934–2026)

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11th Mar 2026
CHM remembers 2006 Fellow Sir Antony Hoare, whose work is embedded in the very foundations of the digital world. The post In Memoriam: Sir Antony Hoare (1934–2026) appeared first on CHM.
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The end and the beginning of history Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
8th Jul 2024
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The end and the beginning of history

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8th Jul 2024
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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Rare 1960s Photos Offer a Fascinating Look at Swimsuit Fashion of the Era Fashion has a way of reflecting the world around it, and in the 1960s, the world was moving fast....
3rd Jun 2026
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Rare 1960s Photos Offer a Fascinating Look at Swimsuit Fashion of the Era

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3rd Jun 2026
Fashion has a way of reflecting the world around it, and in the 1960s, the world was moving fast. The postwar economic boom had put more disposable income in more pockets than any previous generation had known. Vacation culture was expanding, domestic air travel was becoming...
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The case for bundling substacks No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money
3rd Mar 2026
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The case for bundling substacks

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3rd Mar 2026
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money
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The most important AI story in the world is happening in a place you’ve never heard of Have you ever heard of Ulanqab prefecture, a small (by China’s standards) jurisdiction of 1.5...
3 weeks ago
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The most important AI story in the world is happening in a place you’ve never heard of

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3 weeks ago
Have you ever heard of Ulanqab prefecture, a small (by China’s standards) jurisdiction of 1.5 million people lost in the middle of the Inner Mongolian steppe?
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage "Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
3rd Dec 2023
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage

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3rd Dec 2023
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
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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...
3rd Sep 2025
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How does China's victory in 1945 still define the Taiwan question?

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3rd Sep 2025
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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Another Of My Essays in French Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
4th Dec 2023
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Another Of My Essays in French

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4th Dec 2023
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Macron is Safe for the Moment But the future worries me.
5th Apr 2023
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Macron is Safe for the Moment

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5th Apr 2023
But the future worries me.
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Introducing PSPMAN A FLAC and MP3 Player for the Sony PSP by ObsoleteSony
9th Sep 2026
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Introducing PSPMAN

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9th Sep 2026
A FLAC and MP3 Player for the Sony PSP by ObsoleteSony
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The end of the great order under the Heaven A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
22nd Aug 2024
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The end of the great order under the Heaven

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22nd Aug 2024
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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Picking Fights : Seventeen Years of Organizing in the Seattle Solidarity Network In the following reflections, participants in the Seattle Solidarity Network share what they have...
10th Jul 2025
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Picking Fights : Seventeen Years of Organizing in the Seattle Solidarity Network

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10th Jul 2025
In the following reflections, participants in the Seattle Solidarity Network share what they have learned in the course of seventeen years of experimenting with tactics via which workers and tenants can act together against bosses and landlords. For an action-obsessed group like...
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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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The Pax Silica Con The US's "Pax Silica" sells itself as a wall against China, when it's really a cage to keep...
4th Jun 2026
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The Pax Silica Con

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4th Jun 2026
The US's "Pax Silica" sells itself as a wall against China, when it's really a cage to keep America's "partners" in - dependent on American tech, and unable to build their own.
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Recent addenda to articles 202609: Errors, omissions, and retractions I was going to start with “it has been a while since we had one of these” but then I saw that the...
a week ago
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Recent addenda to articles 202609: Errors, omissions, and retractions

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a week ago
I was going to start with “it has been a while since we had one of these” but then I saw that the previous one started with “Wow, has it really been 7 months since I did one of these?” and that was in December 2023. Maybe I can make it a more regular thing. Anyway blogging...
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Fireside Friday, September 4, 2026 Hey folks! Fireside this week! Last week’s post was a monster (over 10,000 words compared to our...
4th Sep 2026
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Fireside Friday, September 4, 2026

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4th Sep 2026
Hey folks! Fireside this week! Last week’s post was a monster (over 10,000 words compared to our more typically ~6,000) which left me with some non-blog catching up to do. Next week, we’ll be starting our next Teaching Paradox series, this time looking at Hearts of Iron IV, which...
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Are Humans Egalitarian? A common motive for studying “egalitarian” primitive social practices is a hope of supporting...
7th Mar 2026
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Are Humans Egalitarian?

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7th Mar 2026
A common motive for studying “egalitarian” primitive social practices is a hope of supporting something like the following narrative:
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Difficulties with Fanon Observations stimulated by Adam Shatz’s Rebel’s Clinic
3rd Jun 2025
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Difficulties with Fanon

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3rd Jun 2025
Observations stimulated by Adam Shatz’s Rebel’s Clinic
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What Is Rudolf Steiner’s Philosophy of Freedom? Do you want to learn about philosophy and how it affects our idea of freedom? If you do, then Rudolf...
17th Feb 2025
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What Is Rudolf Steiner’s Philosophy of Freedom?

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17th Feb 2025
Do you want to learn about philosophy and how it affects our idea of freedom? If you do, then Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy of freedom is something you’ll find incredibly interesting. In his famous book The Philosophy of Freedom, Steiner, an Austrian philosopher, anthroposophist,...
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Buster Brown Goes to Mars (1958) This comic is a promotional comic from Buster Brown shoes. If you went into a shoe store and tried...
3rd Jul 2026
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Buster Brown Goes to Mars (1958)

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3rd Jul 2026
This comic is a promotional comic from Buster Brown shoes. If you went into a shoe store and tried on Buster Brown shoes you would get a comic book with the name of the store stamped/printed on it. Buster Brown  (and his dog Tag) were a feature of 1950s and 1960s shoe store. In...
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Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop ...so I vibe-coded a tool for finding more of them
22nd Jul 2026
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Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop

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22nd Jul 2026
...so I vibe-coded a tool for finding more of them
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A complex bug with a ⸢simple⸣ fix Last month I did a fairly complex piece of systems programming that worked surprisingly well. But...
19th Sep 2024
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A complex bug with a ⸢simple⸣ fix

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19th Sep 2024
Last month I did a fairly complex piece of systems programming that worked surprisingly well. But it had one big bug that took me a day to track down. One reason I find the bug interesting is that it exemplifies the sort of challenges that come up in systems programming. The...
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Summary of changes for October Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
31st Oct 2022
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Summary of changes for October

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31st Oct 2022
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal. Left, added a...
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Dr. Morell and the Patient A A review of Normal Ohler’s "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany"
9th Aug 2025
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Dr. Morell and the Patient A

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9th Aug 2025
A review of Normal Ohler’s "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany"
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A self-absorbed giant Dearth of Chinese lessons for the rest of the world
12th Jul 2026
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A self-absorbed giant

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12th Jul 2026
Dearth of Chinese lessons for the rest of the world
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