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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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Sufi Rituals, Papal Editcs, and Other Fascinating Facts About the History of Coffee According to the National Coffee Association, about two-thirds of adult Americans start their day...
1st Sep 2026
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Sufi Rituals, Papal Editcs, and Other Fascinating Facts About the History of Coffee

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1st Sep 2026
According to the National Coffee Association, about two-thirds of adult Americans start their day with a cup of that precious beverage: coffee. There is something special about its bitter flavor and potent aroma that stimulates the mind and the senses. It is estimated that around...
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The Daily Shame (耻) UK News Report #8: August 2026
1st Sep 2026
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The Daily Shame (耻)

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1st Sep 2026
UK News Report #8: August 2026
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Years of Salt and Metal | The crash of Hop-a-Jet flight 823
26th Aug 2026
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Years of Salt and Metal | The crash of Hop-a-Jet flight 823

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26th Aug 2026
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The Watching Menace: Crowds, Voyeurism and Photography We’re in the crowd and watching in his album of found photos from collector Robert E. Jackson’s...
2nd Jan 2026
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The Watching Menace: Crowds, Voyeurism and Photography

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2nd Jan 2026
We’re in the crowd and watching in his album of found photos from collector Robert E. Jackson’s archive. Did you push yourself into the heart of the crowd, get in with the ‘in crowd’, and did run with in the mob? Come, let’s gather round and crane our necks, see what everyone …...
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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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How a Chinese MAGA hat maker got caught in Trump's trade war Love Trump? Buy a hat. Hate him? Still buy a hat. But "Brother Wang" neither loves nor hates.
27th May 2025
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How a Chinese MAGA hat maker got caught in Trump's trade war

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27th May 2025
Love Trump? Buy a hat. Hate him? Still buy a hat. But "Brother Wang" neither loves nor hates.
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Rockets and Space Coloring Book (1960) Some nice space pictures (to color) for you today.  Coloring books may be one of the ultimate forms...
8th Mar 2025
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Rockets and Space Coloring Book (1960)

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8th Mar 2025
Some nice space pictures (to color) for you today.  Coloring books may be one of the ultimate forms of ephemera. There were meant to be used, admired? and then thrown away. Yet many children owned them and there were at least 40 issued between 1950 and 1970 on space themes. If...
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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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Two Views, Both Not Quite Photographs From a 1902 postcard, a profile view of the Brooklyn Bridge (with bonus Fulton ferry) and a smaller...
1st Jun 2026
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Two Views, Both Not Quite Photographs

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1st Jun 2026
From a 1902 postcard, a profile view of the Brooklyn Bridge (with bonus Fulton ferry) and a smaller view of the walkway. If you know the bridge well, as I do, the promenade view is actually quite accurate, but I suspect it’s a little bit difficult to parse for people who haven’t...
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Summary of changes for March Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Mar 2021
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Summary of changes for March

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1st Mar 2021
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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Cultural Scenario Probabilities On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
1st Dec 2024
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Cultural Scenario Probabilities

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1st Dec 2024
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
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May Day History The Haymarket Riot NOTE: I rerun this diary every year. In the US, May Day used to be the internationally-recognized...
1st May 2026
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May Day History The Haymarket Riot

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1st May 2026
NOTE: I rerun this diary every year. In the US, May Day used to be the internationally-recognized day of recognition and celebration for Labor and its struggles–at least until the Soviet Union ruined it with their idiotic military parades. But in honor of the true meaning of May...
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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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Do YOU Know the Trojan War? Weekly Wisdom Quiz
2nd Aug 2026
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Do YOU Know the Trojan War?

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2nd Aug 2026
Weekly Wisdom Quiz
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Fireside Friday, April 4, 2025 Fireside this week! I am still a bit behind after attending the annual meeting of the Society for...
4th Apr 2025
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Fireside Friday, April 4, 2025

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4th Apr 2025
Fireside this week! I am still a bit behind after attending the annual meeting of the Society for Military History – conferences always leave me a bit tired and slow to get back to writing, even as they also stimulate my thinking – so the conclusion of our look at Rings of Power...
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Police Mugshots of Black Trans Women Arrested for Cross-Dressing or Female Impersonation in 1970s... These police mugshots bear witness to a different time, when black trans women were arrested for...
a week ago
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Police Mugshots of Black Trans Women Arrested for Cross-Dressing or Female Impersonation in 1970s Philadelphia

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a week ago
These police mugshots bear witness to a different time, when black trans women were arrested for ‘cross-dressing’ or ‘female impersonation’. They were taken between 1970 and 1979 in Philadelphia when police were the jurisdiction of Police Commissioner (and later Democrat Mayor of...
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Alone With Our Thoughts. Lost in the supermarket of opinions.
3rd Dec 2025
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Alone With Our Thoughts.

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3rd Dec 2025
Lost in the supermarket of opinions.
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25 medieval manuscripts you can look at online right now They're all digital, baby!
4th Mar 2026
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25 medieval manuscripts you can look at online right now

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4th Mar 2026
They're all digital, baby!
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Man the Hunter Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
19th Nov 2023
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Man the Hunter

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19th Nov 2023
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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Trump and the Rise of Asia My interview with "Atlantico"
3rd Dec 2024
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Trump and the Rise of Asia

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3rd Dec 2024
My interview with "Atlantico"
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On the Making of the Modern State Classical Wisdom Litterae: Government
2nd Jul 2025
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On the Making of the Modern State

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2nd Jul 2025
Classical Wisdom Litterae: Government
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My Weekly Reader 1958-1959 March 3, 1958   Happy New Year's! I picked up a set of My Weekly Reader so I thought I would share...
1st Jan 2026
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My Weekly Reader 1958-1959

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1st Jan 2026
March 3, 1958   Happy New Year's! I picked up a set of My Weekly Reader so I thought I would share some with you as I have a chance to scan them. Some of these are from My Weekly Reader Picture Reader. This was the version for 1st graders. The next is from the My Weekly reader...
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‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review ‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review JamesHoare Mon, 11/03/2025 - 08:14
3rd Nov 2025
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‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review

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3rd Nov 2025
‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review JamesHoare Mon, 11/03/2025 - 08:14
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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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Bubble Blog, My Web 2.0 Book: Table of Contents My book, Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 Revolution, was...
1st Nov 2023
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Bubble Blog, My Web 2.0 Book: Table of Contents

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1st Nov 2023
My book, Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 Revolution, was serialized on Cybercultural over 2024 and is now available to purchase: Paperback, US$19.99: Amazon; Bookshop.org eBook, US$9.99: Amazon Kindle Store; Apple Books; Google Play Or search for...
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North Pacific Logbook The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
31st Jul 2020
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North Pacific Logbook

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31st Jul 2020
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip. Continue Reading
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Demographics and American Homicides Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
21st Jan 2024
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Demographics and American Homicides

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21st Jan 2024
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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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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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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The Machine Stops. And fiddling won't fix it.
4th Sep 2024
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The Machine Stops.

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4th Sep 2024
And fiddling won't fix it.
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State building in pre-colonial Somalia: the Sultanate of Geledi (ca. 1750-1908) For much of Somalia’s pre-colonial history, political organization was structured along clan and...
2nd Nov 2025
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State building in pre-colonial Somalia: the Sultanate of Geledi (ca. 1750-1908)

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2nd Nov 2025
For much of Somalia’s pre-colonial history, political organization was structured along clan and lineage divisions within largely acephalous societies.
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Star Trek’s Space Babes: Vintage Photos of the Women Who Captivated 1960s Audiences When Star Trek premiered in 1966, it introduced audiences to a vision of the future filled with...
3rd Sep 2026
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Star Trek’s Space Babes: Vintage Photos of the Women Who Captivated 1960s Audiences

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3rd Sep 2026
When Star Trek premiered in 1966, it introduced audiences to a vision of the future filled with advanced technology, distant worlds, and a diverse crew working together aboard the USS Enterprise. Alongside its groundbreaking ideas about space exploration and human progress, the...
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AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder Historians are finally having their AI debate
7th May 2025
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AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder

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7th May 2025
Historians are finally having their AI debate
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The General History of Africa a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
7th Apr 2024
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The General History of Africa

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7th Apr 2024
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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Bo Diddley Bo Diddley's cover of "Sixteen Tons" sounds very much like one of my favorites, "Can't Judge A Book...
3rd Mar 2026
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Bo Diddley

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3rd Mar 2026
Bo Diddley's cover of "Sixteen Tons" sounds very much like one of my favorites, "Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover". It's interesting to compare. Thinking on that it suddenly occured to me that his name might have been a play on “diddley bow”, which is a sort of homemade...
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Captain Ray-O-Vac’s Adventure and Game Book (1952) Sorry for the sporadic postings, I should have some lined up for the next couple of months.  Mostly...
19th Jun 2026
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Captain Ray-O-Vac’s Adventure and Game Book (1952)

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19th Jun 2026
Sorry for the sporadic postings, I should have some lined up for the next couple of months.  Mostly there will be comic book premiums and punch out books. To start how about "Flashlights in Space...!" This was a comic premium from Ray-O-Vac batteries company. There was not much...
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Charles V: The Holy Roman Emperor Who Shaped Europe Due to a unique set of circumstances at the beginning of the 16th century, a teenage monarch...
1st May 2025
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Charles V: The Holy Roman Emperor Who Shaped Europe

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1st May 2025
Due to a unique set of circumstances at the beginning of the 16th century, a teenage monarch inherited much of Europe, including Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and parts of Italy. Throughout his reign, Emperor Charles V fought to keep his empire together against his French,...
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Trial by Fire: The crash of Aeroflot flight 1492
13th May 2025
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Trial by Fire: The crash of Aeroflot flight 1492

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13th May 2025
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A Week Off And A New Language See you again soon
6th Sep 2023
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A Week Off And A New Language

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6th Sep 2023
See you again soon
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‘Smock-Faced’ and ‘Imperbicke: The Shame of Beardlessness’ This week I had the wonderful message from WordPress that my blog has now had more than 500,000...
28th Aug 2026
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‘Smock-Faced’ and ‘Imperbicke: The Shame of Beardlessness’

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28th Aug 2026
This week I had the wonderful message from WordPress that my blog has now had more than 500,000 views, from over 120 countries. When I started the blog more than a decade ago I had no expectation that anyone would read the posts, so thank you to everyone for your support. As you...
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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 African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800. Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
5th Nov 2023
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The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.

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5th Nov 2023
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Best BigCo of 2008: Apple This post as it looked in 2008. Every year we do a review of the top Internet companies, to...
18th Dec 2008
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Best BigCo of 2008: Apple

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18th Dec 2008
This post as it looked in 2008. Every year we do a review of the top Internet companies, to identify the ones we think had the biggest impact. Today we're announcing the Best BigCo of 2008 and next week we'll announce Best LittleCo and Most Promising Company — all selected by...
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Paradise Lost: How Moreover Won & Lost the Real-Time Web The late 1990s was the middle of the Dot Com boom. Looking back, we tend to associate this period of...
17th Mar 2015
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Paradise Lost: How Moreover Won & Lost the Real-Time Web

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17th Mar 2015
The late 1990s was the middle of the Dot Com boom. Looking back, we tend to associate this period of intense growth with e-commerce startups. During 1998, eBay went public, Paypal was founded, Amazon.com was spending big to “expand its reach” and Pets.com launched. Also started...
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Precolonial India was not rich The historical poverty of the Indian masses, origins of the great divergence, and why East Asian...
5th Oct 2025
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Precolonial India was not rich

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5th Oct 2025
The historical poverty of the Indian masses, origins of the great divergence, and why East Asian growth miracle but not South Asian
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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
12th Mar 2021
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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century

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12th Mar 2021
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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This May Be the Most Important Issue Yet Classical Wisdom Litterae: Ethics
1st Nov 2025
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This May Be the Most Important Issue Yet

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1st Nov 2025
Classical Wisdom Litterae: Ethics
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Unseen Friends: Rare Behind-the-Scenes Photos from the Iconic Sitcom In the mid-1990s, television audiences were introduced to a group of six friends whose daily lives...
1st Nov 2025
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Unseen Friends: Rare Behind-the-Scenes Photos from the Iconic Sitcom

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1st Nov 2025
In the mid-1990s, television audiences were introduced to a group of six friends whose daily lives in Manhattan would soon redefine the meaning of modern friendship. Friends, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994, and instantly captured...
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic? Which Playwright did it better?
1st Jul 2024
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?

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1st Jul 2024
Which Playwright did it better?
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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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2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
15th Jan 2025
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2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past

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15th Jan 2025
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
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The Golden Age of Microblogging, With Soup.io and Tumblr Microblogging was a trend that emerged in the second half of the 2000s, after long-form weblogs had...
22nd Mar 2023
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The Golden Age of Microblogging, With Soup.io and Tumblr

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22nd Mar 2023
Microblogging was a trend that emerged in the second half of the 2000s, after long-form weblogs had become established in the culture. Microblogging is basically just short-form blogging and, as I’ll lay out in this post, its heyday was in the 2007-11 period. But microblogging is...
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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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Three types of literature regarding the world of AI Economics, politics and philosophy for a new era
3 weeks ago
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Three types of literature regarding the world of AI

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3 weeks ago
Economics, politics and philosophy for a new era
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Top Washington strategist says U.S. bases in Asia are “all risk and little reward” Is she the canary in the coal mine
a week ago
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Top Washington strategist says U.S. bases in Asia are “all risk and little reward”

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a week ago
Is she the canary in the coal mine
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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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5th Jul 2023
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge. At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
2nd Jun 2024
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The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.

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2nd Jun 2024
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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What did they write about? : An intellectual history of Timbuktu ca. 1450-1900. No single body of primary sources in the literary heritage of West Africa has attracted as much...
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What did they write about? : An intellectual history of Timbuktu ca. 1450-1900.

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No single body of primary sources in the literary heritage of West Africa has attracted as much attention and attained as much celebrity as the fabled manuscripts of Timbuktu.
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After "Victory." How much is enough?
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After "Victory."

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How much is enough?
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Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996 The CD version of David Bowie's online single, 'Telling Lies', 1996; via kupindo.com. In an...
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Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996

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The CD version of David Bowie's online single, 'Telling Lies', 1996; via kupindo.com. In an interview featured in the 1998 book “The Interactive Music Handbook,” Larry Rosen — CEO of an online music services company called N2K — provided his theory on how the internet would...
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Genes and social stratification How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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Genes and social stratification

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How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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What the Internet Was Like in 2008 The iPhone 3G and G1 (first Android device); October 2008. The internet in 2008 was defined by the...
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What the Internet Was Like in 2008

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The iPhone 3G and G1 (first Android device); October 2008. The internet in 2008 was defined by the emergence of smartphone apps, with the Apple App Store launched in July (along with a second-generation iPhone) and the Android Market following in September. But equally, there was...
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2000: The Napster Monster and Apple’s Heavenly Jukebox Shawn Fanning from Napster wearing a Metallica shirt to the 2000 MTV Awards; via Reddit. In May...
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2000: The Napster Monster and Apple’s Heavenly Jukebox

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Shawn Fanning from Napster wearing a Metallica shirt to the 2000 MTV Awards; via Reddit. In May 2000, Napster’s poster boy, Shawn Fanning, was featured on the cover of BusinessWeek magazine in a suit and bowtie, alongside four other “most influential people in electronic...
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Respect The Social Wild While most foragers had great respect for nature, our farmer-era ancestors had less resepct.
3rd Mar 2025
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Respect The Social Wild

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While most foragers had great respect for nature, our farmer-era ancestors had less resepct.
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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...
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The most important AI story in the world is happening in a place you’ve never heard of

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Have you ever heard of Ulanqab prefecture, a small (by China’s standards) jurisdiction of 1.5 million people lost in the middle of the Inner Mongolian steppe?
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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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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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The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously...
5th Jan 2025
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The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa

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While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously demonstrated by the golden pilgrimage of Mali's Mansa Musa in 1324, Islam had only arrived in the region at the close of the 1st millennium.
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Summary of changes for 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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AI labs need to start funding historical research Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
2 weeks ago
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AI labs need to start funding historical research

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Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
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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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"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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A Closer Look at Australopithecus Deyiremeda The discovery of Australopithecus deyiremeda led to some very surprising results. Australopithecus...
4th Aug 2026
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A Closer Look at Australopithecus Deyiremeda

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The discovery of Australopithecus deyiremeda led to some very surprising results. Australopithecus deyiremeda, from Wiki Commons In 2009, researcher Yohanne Haille-Selassie, working at a place called Burtele in the Waranso-Mille region of Ethiopia (not far from where Lucy had...
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Secrets of the Sophists Man is the Measure of All Things...
1st Aug 2025
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Secrets of the Sophists

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Man is the Measure of All Things...
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Buster Brown Goes to Mars (1958) This comic is a promotional comic from Buster Brown shoes. If you went into a shoe store and tried...
3rd Jul 2026
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Buster Brown Goes to Mars (1958)

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This comic is a promotional comic from Buster Brown shoes. If you went into a shoe store and tried on Buster Brown shoes you would get a comic book with the name of the store stamped/printed on it. Buster Brown  (and his dog Tag) were a feature of 1950s and 1960s shoe store. In...
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Summary of changes for February 2026 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Mar 2026
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Summary of changes for February 2026

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1st Mar 2026
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February. Wiki, updated knots with a figure-eight follow-through knot, also, Pino has a new headsail! Pavol, created a volume control tool. Adelie, made it so images are drawn...
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Why controlling for variables is insufficient On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
24th Jul 2024
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Why controlling for variables is insufficient

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On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
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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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Ranking medieval plague cures Number 4 may surprise you!
4th Jul 2026
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Ranking medieval plague cures

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Number 4 may surprise you!
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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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The Phantom of Polarisation Do people actually disagree that much?
1st Nov 2024
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The Phantom of Polarisation

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Do people actually disagree that much?
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Summary of changes for August Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
4th Sep 2021
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Summary of changes for August

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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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The Eight Tribes of Trump and China LAST OCTOBER I published a short breakdown of four geopolitical ‘schools’ that might shape China...
31st Mar 2025
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The Eight Tribes of Trump and China

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31st Mar 2025
LAST OCTOBER I published a short breakdown of four geopolitical ‘schools’ that might shape China strategy under Trump. That piece was a pre-election preview of a much larger report I was writing for the Foreign Policy Research Institute. I published the preview as security: Trump...
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Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history. There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
3rd Nov 2024
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Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.

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There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
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My work on behalf of Mentour Pilot
2nd Dec 2025
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My work on behalf of Mentour Pilot

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

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1st Oct 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook. M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs. Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
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Summary of changes for July 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Jul 2023
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Summary of changes for July 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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon). 100r.ca,...
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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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historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye Scotland draws tourists year-round to discover its stunning nature, fantastic views, and rich...
1st Aug 2025
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye

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Scotland draws tourists year-round to discover its stunning nature, fantastic views, and rich history. The Isle of Skye is the largest of the Inner Hebrides islands and is famous for its breathtaking views. You can discover the top places to visit on the Isle of Skye here. If...
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My Weekly Reader February 4, 1962 Happy 4th of July! Here is your My Weekly Reader for "Happy 4th of February, 1962."
5th Jul 2025
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My Weekly Reader February 4, 1962

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Happy 4th of July! Here is your My Weekly Reader for "Happy 4th of February, 1962."
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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 first Africanists: Intellectual Collaboration and the Origins of African Studies in the late... The first Africanists (specialists who study African languages, societies, and history) were not...
5th Apr 2026
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The first Africanists: Intellectual Collaboration and the Origins of African Studies in the late 19th to early 20th century.

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The first Africanists (specialists who study African languages, societies, and history) were not colonial researchers, as is often assumed, but African intellectuals who were actively engaged in the production of knowledge about their own societies.
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Was the world of the 1990s better than today’s? It is a fundamental question.
3rd Jan 2026
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Was the world of the 1990s better than today’s?

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It is a fundamental question.
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots “I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand   In Garry...
1st Mar 2024
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots

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1st Mar 2024
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand   In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America.   In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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How Sony Invented the 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk The Little Disk That Conquered the World
2nd Nov 2025
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How Sony Invented the 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk

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2nd Nov 2025
The Little Disk That Conquered the World
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1999: Netscape’s Fall and the Rise of the Mozilla Browser At the beginning of 1999, one company had all the momentum on the Web: Microsoft. While Netscape was...
13th Oct 2021
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1999: Netscape’s Fall and the Rise of the Mozilla Browser

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13th Oct 2021
At the beginning of 1999, one company had all the momentum on the Web: Microsoft. While Netscape was adjusting to corporate life with new owner AOL and trying to figure out its browser strategy, Microsoft was preparing to release version 5 of its browser, Internet Explorer. Like...
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How Can We Accept Change? And When Should We Not?
2nd Feb 2026
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How Can We Accept Change?

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And When Should We Not?
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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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The Newer World Order. But can they get their heads round it?
7th Feb 2024
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The Newer World Order.

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But can they get their heads round it?
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Patronage vs. Constituent Parties (Or Why Republican Party Leaders Matter More Than Democratic Ones) The Republican and Democratic parties are not the same: power flows differently within them. The two...
20th Jul 2024
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Patronage vs. Constituent Parties (Or Why Republican Party Leaders Matter More Than Democratic Ones)

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20th Jul 2024
The Republican and Democratic parties are not the same: power flows differently within them. The two big political news items of this week—the happenings of the Republican National Convention and the desperate attempts of many Democrats to replace their candidate before their own...
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Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005 This post as it looked in 2005. It's been a huge year for the Web! A time of renewed optimism in...
15th Dec 2005
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Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005

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15th Dec 2005
This post as it looked in 2005. It's been a huge year for the Web! A time of renewed optimism in Silicon Valley and an incredible number of new web applications. In a sense it all started with Google's IPO in August 2004, the success of which was a positive and affirming lead-in...
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Then They Came for the Palestinians : How to Respond to the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil On March 8, Department of Homeland Security agents kidnapped Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian organizer...
11th Mar 2025
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Then They Came for the Palestinians : How to Respond to the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil

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11th Mar 2025
On March 8, Department of Homeland Security agents kidnapped Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian organizer and graduate student at Columbia University who had permanent residency in the United States. Donald Trump’s State Department arbitrarily revoked his residency. They are holding...
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A descriptive theory of seasons in the Mid-Atlantic [ I started thinking about this about twenty years ago, and then writing it down in 2019, but it...
8th Feb 2025
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A descriptive theory of seasons in the Mid-Atlantic

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8th Feb 2025
[ I started thinking about this about twenty years ago, and then writing it down in 2019, but it seems to be obsolete. I am publishing it anyway. ] The canonical division of the year into seasons in the northern temperate zone goes something like this: Spring: March 21 – June...
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Manufactured Betrayal : A Statement from Fire Ant Movement Defense on Solidarity and Betrayal in the... On July 4, 2025, roughly a dozen people participated in a demonstration at the Prairieland Detention...
7th Jul 2026
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Manufactured Betrayal : A Statement from Fire Ant Movement Defense on Solidarity and Betrayal in the Prairieland Trials

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On July 4, 2025, roughly a dozen people participated in a demonstration at the Prairieland Detention Center, a facility serving Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At the conclusion of the demonstration, a participant named Benjamin Song saw a police officer aim a gun at a...
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How did medieval travellers communicate in foreign lands? Studies from the east and west
5th Feb 2026
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How did medieval travellers communicate in foreign lands?

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Studies from the east and west
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Summary of changes for January 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Feb 2025
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Summary of changes for January 2025

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1st Feb 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added a new page: tote. Added Week 8 and Week 9 of the Victoria to Sitka logbook. Tote, released the project on itch.io. Grimgrains, added a new...
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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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4th Jan 2026
“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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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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goji no chaimu After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
1st Mar 2019
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goji no chaimu

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1st Mar 2019
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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Forgotten Cities of the Swahili coast: A history of Pemba in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (ca.... Journal of African Cities: chapter 19
1st Feb 2026
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Forgotten Cities of the Swahili coast: A history of Pemba in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (ca. 600-1822 CE)

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1st Feb 2026
Journal of African Cities: chapter 19
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Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’ This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly...
3rd Jan 2025
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Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’

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3rd Jan 2025
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly in the context of modern fantasy and roleplaying settings. In particular, the notions I want to tackle are first how did ancient currency systems work in terms of value (what...
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rainy with a chance of mosquitoes Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
1st Apr 2017
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rainy with a chance of mosquitoes

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1st Apr 2017
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas. Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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15 Great History Museums Every History Lover Must Visit at Least Once Walking into a great history museum is the closest we can get to true time travel. From London and...
1st Jul 2026
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15 Great History Museums Every History Lover Must Visit at Least Once

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1st Jul 2026
Walking into a great history museum is the closest we can get to true time travel. From London and Berlin to Cairo and Mexico City, these 15 institutions rank among the best history museums in the world. Each museum holds culture-defining artifacts including the Rosetta Stone,...
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An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
4th Jul 2023
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An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns

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4th Jul 2023
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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The Chernobyl Podcast and the Value of Internet Deep Dives I’ve just finished watching the HBO-Sky miniseries, Chernobyl. It was by far the best new tv series...
12th Jun 2019
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The Chernobyl Podcast and the Value of Internet Deep Dives

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12th Jun 2019
I’ve just finished watching the HBO-Sky miniseries, Chernobyl. It was by far the best new tv series I’ve seen all year — a horrifying true story told in a masterful way by its writer, director, and actors. About midway through binging the five episodes, I discovered there was a...
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter NEW Event
1st Aug 2024
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter

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1st Aug 2024
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Quick's Flying Saucers and Rocket Ships (1953) A couple of rare (ish) punch-out books from 1953. I had tried to find copies for a while but finally...
1st Aug 2026
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Quick's Flying Saucers and Rocket Ships (1953)

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A couple of rare (ish) punch-out books from 1953. I had tried to find copies for a while but finally it cam together. I really like the space graphics and the space helmet on the back. I also want my own "Robot Man" mask to wear. Lots of cool space toys. Jones, Jim and Virdone,...
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Computer History Museum × Meta’s Project Aria: Building an AI-Guided Tour for Everyone Editor’s Note: The Project Aria research demo described here is in early research and is not open...
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Computer History Museum × Meta’s Project Aria: Building an AI-Guided Tour for Everyone

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Editor’s Note: The Project Aria research demo described here is in early research and is not open for public viewing. Over the past few months, the Computer History Museum in Mountain View has partnered with Meta’s Project Aria to build an AI-guided museum tour experience. The...
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Who Decides Culture? And Does it Require the Classics? Erik Satie's 'Socrate'
1st Dec 2025
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Who Decides Culture? And Does it Require the Classics?

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Erik Satie's 'Socrate'
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Not Getting It Together. As shown by the Iran crisis.
1st Apr 2026
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Not Getting It Together.

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As shown by the Iran crisis.
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism

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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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How Not to Run an Airline: The 2024 Saurya Airlines CRJ-200 crash
1st Aug 2025
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How Not to Run an Airline: The 2024 Saurya Airlines CRJ-200 crash

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leleuvia We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
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leleuvia

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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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where is the turtle farm Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
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where is the turtle farm

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Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go! We left our mooring at...
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How Do You Know That Document Is Real? A history of verification
2nd Sep 2026
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How Do You Know That Document Is Real?

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A history of verification
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‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review ‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review JamesHoare Mon, 08/04/2025 - 09:08
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‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review

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‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review JamesHoare Mon, 08/04/2025 - 09:08
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIa: Family Formation This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II) discussing the patterns of life of...
1st Aug 2025
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIa: Family Formation

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This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II) discussing the patterns of life of the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of all humans who lived in our agrarian past and indeed a majority of all humans who have ever lived. Last week, we looked at...
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Summary of changes for January 2026 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
31st Jan 2026
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Summary of changes for January 2026

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31st Jan 2026
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January. Uxn, we released a new SDL2 emulator called uxn2 to replace the ol' uxnemu! Wiki, updated moisture prevention underliner, chainplates(with new photos and measurements), and...
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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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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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Gap Week: October 3, 2025 Hey folks! Apologies for the lack of a post this week – a mix of teaching, writing and family...
3rd Oct 2025
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Gap Week: October 3, 2025

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Hey folks! Apologies for the lack of a post this week – a mix of teaching, writing and family demands had to come first. Still, so that I don’t leave you with nothing to read, here are some things I’ve been reading and watching lately you may find interesting. Over on YouTube,...
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The Time I Met Bill English, Co-Creator of the Mouse This post is to honour the one-year anniversary of the passing of Bill English, at age 91, on 26...
26th Jul 2021
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The Time I Met Bill English, Co-Creator of the Mouse

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This post is to honour the one-year anniversary of the passing of Bill English, at age 91, on 26 July, 2020. English was Doug Engelbart’s right-hand man in the Mother of All Demos in 1968 and a key developer of the oN-Line System (NLS). The post below was initially part of a book...
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024 Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024

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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 Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
2nd Dec 2024
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria

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The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
1st Dec 2023
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays

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Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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The Tears of Strangers are only water On the limits of empathy
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The Tears of Strangers are only water

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On the limits of empathy
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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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Good afternoon.
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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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Working offgrid efficiently Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years. For the first 3 years we tested the...
13th Oct 2020
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Working offgrid efficiently

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Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years. For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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Prisons aren't filled with harmless pot smokers The American incarceration rate explained
19th Sep 2025
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Prisons aren't filled with harmless pot smokers

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The American incarceration rate explained
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If I can shoot fascists Do words lead to violence?
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If I can shoot fascists

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Do words lead to violence?
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The Sound and Fury of a Collapsing Order : As Trump’s Power Wanes, A Window Opens for Change In the waning phase of Donald Trump’s reign, opportunities will open up for profound social change....
8th Apr 2026
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The Sound and Fury of a Collapsing Order : As Trump’s Power Wanes, A Window Opens for Change

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In the waning phase of Donald Trump’s reign, opportunities will open up for profound social change. Here, we explore the nature of the difficulties besetting his administration and propose a few starting places for those who aim to do more than simply remove him from power. In...
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Feels Gone Wrong The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me...
5th Jan 2025
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Feels Gone Wrong

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The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me the huge emotional appeal of becoming a musician like them.
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Check-In Culture: Foursquare Raps by the Go-Bang Mayor I recently had occasion to write about Foursquare, the once popular location check-in app. I’d been...
21st Feb 2023
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Check-In Culture: Foursquare Raps by the Go-Bang Mayor

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21st Feb 2023
I recently had occasion to write about Foursquare, the once popular location check-in app. I’d been emailed by its PR firm about a potential Machine Learning story. In her pitch, the PR rep had called Foursquare a “location data platform.” All this piqued my interest as a tech...
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days This is the continuation – the first of several – of the fourth part of our series looking at the...
5th Sep 2025
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days

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5th Sep 2025
This is the continuation – the first of several – of the fourth part of our series looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers – a majority of all of the humans who have ever lived. Last time we discussed the survival requirements (in food and textiles) of a peasant...
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The Euthyphro problem 'Is that which is moral moral because God commands it?, or does God command that which is moral...
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The Euthyphro problem

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'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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What the Internet Was Like in 2005 By 2005, Web 2.0 — the Web as platform — was the driving trend of Silicon Valley. It was a new tech...
1st Jun 2024
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What the Internet Was Like in 2005

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1st Jun 2024
By 2005, Web 2.0 — the Web as platform — was the driving trend of Silicon Valley. It was a new tech bubble, and that meant startup launches galore. YouTube and Reddit were just a couple of the future all-star web products launched in 2005. There were also plenty of acquisitions...
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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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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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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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Taiwan Rising Honghong Tinn, author of Island Tinkerers, shares the fascinating history of how hobbyists and...
13th Nov 2025
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Taiwan Rising

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Honghong Tinn, author of Island Tinkerers, shares the fascinating history of how hobbyists and enthusiasts in Taiwan helped transform the country through innovative and creative computer use. The post Taiwan Rising appeared first on CHM.
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Pensioners for war Many years ago when I lived in Belgrade, just before the beginning of the “Yugoslav Wars of...
5th Jul 2025
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Pensioners for war

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5th Jul 2025
Many years ago when I lived in Belgrade, just before the beginning of the “Yugoslav Wars of Succession”, I noticed an interesting phenomenon.
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From under the rubble A review of Grdešić and Žitko’s “Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia: A Critical History”
1st Dec 2025
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From under the rubble

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A review of Grdešić and Žitko’s “Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia: A Critical History”
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Internet Amnesia: Clive James & His Website The writer and cultural critic Clive James died last November, at the age of 80. I mainly knew of...
26th Feb 2020
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Internet Amnesia: Clive James & His Website

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26th Feb 2020
The writer and cultural critic Clive James died last November, at the age of 80. I mainly knew of James from his 1980s and 1990s tv shows, such as Clive James on Television and Saturday Night Clive. I’d also read some of his essays and books before. He was one of those humorous...
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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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Constructing Missing Crime Tables Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
17th Jan 2023
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Constructing Missing Crime Tables

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17th Jan 2023
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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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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The Art of Remembering Death (Memento Mori) and Life (Memento Vivere) Death and its inevitability have been a constant in humankind’s approach to living. In today’s...
1st Jan 2026
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The Art of Remembering Death (Memento Mori) and Life (Memento Vivere)

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1st Jan 2026
Death and its inevitability have been a constant in humankind’s approach to living. In today’s world, we are perhaps not as vividly prompted to be conscious of our mortality as were the ancient Greeks, Romans, and early Christians. Artworks depicting skulls, hourglasses, dancing...
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On the Spot: Annabel Teh Gallop On the Spot: Annabel Teh Gallop JamesHoare Mon, 03/17/2025 - 08:24
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On the Spot: Annabel Teh Gallop

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On the Spot: Annabel Teh Gallop JamesHoare Mon, 03/17/2025 - 08:24
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Charming Carhop Girls: Photos from When Roller Skates and Drive-Ins Defined American Cool Long before the era of fast-food drive-throughs, there was a time when meals were served on...
17th Oct 2025
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Charming Carhop Girls: Photos from When Roller Skates and Drive-Ins Defined American Cool

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17th Oct 2025
Long before the era of fast-food drive-throughs, there was a time when meals were served on wheels—literally. The carhop became a symbol of mid-century Americana, blending convenience, charm, and a touch of showmanship. These waiters and waitresses delivered burgers, fries, and...
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How Themistocles Used a Prophecy to Defeat the Persians In 480 BC, a colossal Persian army crossed the Hellespont. Led by the power-hungry King Xerxes I,...
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How Themistocles Used a Prophecy to Defeat the Persians

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In 480 BC, a colossal Persian army crossed the Hellespont. Led by the power-hungry King Xerxes I, hundreds of thousands of troops traveled towards Greece’s heartland in search of vengeance for a disastrous defeat ten years prior. As their customs demanded, the Athenians sought...
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The Route of History Geology and empire collide on the Danube
1st Feb 2026
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The Route of History

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Geology and empire collide on the Danube
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Perspectives and outcomes of Africa's age of exploration Nearly a century after the Kushite envoys of Queen Amanirenas visited the court of Augustus in...
3rd Aug 2025
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Perspectives and outcomes of Africa's age of exploration

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Nearly a century after the Kushite envoys of Queen Amanirenas visited the court of Augustus in 22-20BC, a pair of Roman centurions was sent on a reconnaissance mission to Kush in 61-63 CE to gather intelligence for a planned campaign against the kingdom by the Emperor Nero.
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The White Masks of Gabon: “Foreign” symbolism in Traditional African sculpture. Among the most refined works of African art are the distinctive white masks of southern Gabon in...
2nd Aug 2026
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The White Masks of Gabon: “Foreign” symbolism in Traditional African sculpture.

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2nd Aug 2026
Among the most refined works of African art are the distinctive white masks of southern Gabon in Central Africa.
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The West is Weak Where it Matters ... ...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
4th Jan 2023
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The West is Weak Where it Matters ...

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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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Best BigCo of 2009: Google This post as it looked in 2009. In one of ReadWriteWeb's longest-running traditions, every year we...
16th Dec 2009
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Best BigCo of 2009: Google

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16th Dec 2009
This post as it looked in 2009. In one of ReadWriteWeb's longest-running traditions, every year we review the top Internet companies and their impact over the past 12 months. Today we're announcing the 6th annual Best BigCo, a.k.a. big Internet company. Next week we'll announce...
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Summary of changes for October Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
3rd Nov 2021
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Summary of changes for October

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn). uxn,...
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Don't bluff someone who can't fold The war on Iran isn’t over yet, but it looks like we might in fact be staring at the one of the...
9th Apr 2026
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Don't bluff someone who can't fold

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9th Apr 2026
The war on Iran isn’t over yet, but it looks like we might in fact be staring at the one of the single biggest losses in the U.S.
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The familiar loneliness of the Kinetoscope One other way that the 2020s resemble the 1890s
5th Feb 2025
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The familiar loneliness of the Kinetoscope

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One other way that the 2020s resemble the 1890s
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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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a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
5th Aug 2023
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a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history

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plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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A Closer Look At: Ardipithecus ramidus Ardipithecus ramidus is one of the most complete hominid skeletons found so far, and the earliest...
2nd Sep 2025
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A Closer Look At: Ardipithecus ramidus

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Ardipithecus ramidus is one of the most complete hominid skeletons found so far, and the earliest one to be unequivocally accepted as a bipedal human ancestor. In 1981, a group of paleontologists who had been working at the fossil site in the Middle Awash area of Ethiopia made a...
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One Way Or Another .... We're going to get you.
7th Jun 2023
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One Way Or Another ....

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7th Jun 2023
We're going to get you.
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How to Decode Goryeo Buddhist Paintings in Korean Art Among Korea’s rarest and most beautiful religious artifacts, the Goryeo Period Buddhist paintings...
1st Mar 2025
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How to Decode Goryeo Buddhist Paintings in Korean Art

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1st Mar 2025
Among Korea’s rarest and most beautiful religious artifacts, the Goryeo Period Buddhist paintings were largely lost due to colonization and war. Retrieved from Japanese temples, their imagery is now interpreted to represent stories of the afterlife. Alongside their religious...
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Summary of changes for October 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Nov 2023
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Summary of changes for October 2023

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1st Nov 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version. Wunderland...
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The Five Rivers of Hades in Greek Mythology and Beyond The Greek afterlife wasn’t simply a shadowy realm of nothingness. Over time, from Homer to Hesiod,...
1st May 2026
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The Five Rivers of Hades in Greek Mythology and Beyond

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1st May 2026
The Greek afterlife wasn’t simply a shadowy realm of nothingness. Over time, from Homer to Hesiod, Plato, and Virgil, through stories and poetry, it developed features of its own, with forests, mountains, cities, and lakes being considered as part of its geography. Of great...
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Florida’s Barker Gang Shootout In January 1935, gangster “Ma” Barker and her son Fred were killed by the FBI in a multi-hour...
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Florida’s Barker Gang Shootout

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6th May 2025
In January 1935, gangster “Ma” Barker and her son Fred were killed by the FBI in a multi-hour shootout in the little town of Ocklawaha FL. Arizona “Arrie” Clark was born in the rural town of Ash Grove MO in October 1873, where she played the fiddle and sang in the local church...
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What the Internet Was Like in 2011 2011 was the year Facebook, the world’s leading social network, launched Timeline and introduced its...
10th Jan 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 2011

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10th Jan 2025
2011 was the year Facebook, the world’s leading social network, launched Timeline and introduced its algorithmic feed. These changes were partly influenced by a formidable new competitor: Google+. Meanwhile, Android overtook Apple's iOS as the leading mobile platform, Microsoft...
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The Ancient Empires of Africa: Imperial Governments and “Native” Rulers. Ancient state structures in Africa included Empires, which carried with them all the complexity,...
6th Sep 2026
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The Ancient Empires of Africa: Imperial Governments and “Native” Rulers.

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6th Sep 2026
Ancient state structures in Africa included Empires, which carried with them all the complexity, inequalities, and political baggage inherent in such systems.
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French Youth Take the Streets against a Bleak Future : A Report This past week, thousands of teenagers have taken the streets of France, clashing with police as...
5 days ago
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French Youth Take the Streets against a Bleak Future : A Report

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This past week, thousands of teenagers have taken the streets of France, clashing with police as they demonstrate against the deplorable conditions in their high schools and a rapidly collapsing future. This is a promising sign, shifting attention from the seemingly unstoppable...
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Summary of changes for April 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
30th Apr 2025
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Summary of changes for April 2025

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30th Apr 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April. 100r.ca, updated water, ditch bag, woodstove installation, and added new photos and information on first-aid kit. Rabbit Waves, updated Triangular Bandages with animated gifs,...
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FREE Obsolete Sony book for paid subscribers A DRM-free digital copy of Sony Year by Year, and a thank-you for year one.
3rd May 2026
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FREE Obsolete Sony book for paid subscribers

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3rd May 2026
A DRM-free digital copy of Sony Year by Year, and a thank-you for year one.
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Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery JamesHoare Tue, 05/06/2025 - 08:55
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Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery

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Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery JamesHoare Tue, 05/06/2025 - 08:55
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Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games) Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
2nd Feb 2024
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Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)

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2nd Feb 2024
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and... Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films,...
1st Jan 2025
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What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Early Hitchcock Films, Tintin and Popeye Cartoons & More

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1st Jan 2025
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films, musical compositions, sound recordings, works of art, and other pieces of intellectual property. This year happens to be an especially notable one for connoisseurs of Belgian...
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1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo In January 1994, two Stanford University graduate students — Jerry Yang and David Filo — created a...
10th Aug 2021
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1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo

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10th Aug 2021
In January 1994, two Stanford University graduate students — Jerry Yang and David Filo — created a web directory named “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web.” It went by various other names in early 1994 (such as “Hierarchical Hotlist” and “Jerry & Dave’s Guide to WWW”),...
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BowieNet: The Inside Story of Its Creation David Bowie's website circa August-September 1998. In late 1996, just before his 50th birthday...
10th Jan 2023
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BowieNet: The Inside Story of Its Creation

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10th Jan 2023
David Bowie's website circa August-September 1998. In late 1996, just before his 50th birthday concert at Madison Square Garden and before his latest album ‘Earthling’ was released, David Bowie had quietly approved the development of what was to become his biggest internet...
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That's The Truth? In politics, well, it depends.
4th Oct 2023
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That's The Truth?

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4th Oct 2023
In politics, well, it depends.
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Summary of changes for November 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Dec 2023
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Summary of changes for November 2023

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1st Dec 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November. Summary Of Changes Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio! Thousand Rooms, translated the...
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Baseball on the Moon We want to adapt baseball to be played on the moon. Is there any way to make it work? My first...
18th Mar 2025
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Baseball on the Moon

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18th Mar 2025
We want to adapt baseball to be played on the moon. Is there any way to make it work? My first impression is: no, for several reasons. The pitched ball will go a little faster (no air resistance) but breaking balls are impossible (ditto). So the batter will find it easier to...
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Merry Mouse and His Trip to the Moon (1953) My next 4 posts are celebrating children's illustrated fiction about going to the Moon. Even though...
1st Aug 2025
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Merry Mouse and His Trip to the Moon (1953)

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1st Aug 2025
My next 4 posts are celebrating children's illustrated fiction about going to the Moon. Even though I have been collecting these children's book for over 30 years it still is very exciting to find one that you never knew existed. Jack Coggins was an amazing space artist in the...
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An anecdote about backward compatibility A long time ago I worked on a debugger program that our company used to debug software that it sold...
26th Jan 2026
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An anecdote about backward compatibility

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26th Jan 2026
A long time ago I worked on a debugger program that our company used to debug software that it sold that ran on IBM System 370. We had that could display (I think) eight colors (if you count black), but the debugger display was only in black and white. I thought I might be...
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Wool Aliens of the British Empire Wool Aliens of the British Empire JamesHoare Tue, 04/01/2025 - 09:07
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Wool Aliens of the British Empire

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Wool Aliens of the British Empire JamesHoare Tue, 04/01/2025 - 09:07
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Museum Ship USS Croaker The submarine USS Croaker was constructed during the Second World War, but some of its most...
2nd Jun 2026
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Museum Ship USS Croaker

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2nd Jun 2026
The submarine USS Croaker was constructed during the Second World War, but some of its most interesting work came during the Cold War. USS Croaker in 1944 The Gato-class was a very successful design, especially in the Pacific. During the Second World War, the Navy submarine...
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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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Immigration and crime: Denmark Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
3rd Aug 2024
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Immigration and crime: Denmark

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3rd Aug 2024
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Sub-replacement fertility in pre-baby boom Europe Past perspectives on fertility decline
20th Feb 2025
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Sub-replacement fertility in pre-baby boom Europe

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20th Feb 2025
Past perspectives on fertility decline
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century. Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
1st Nov 2024
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.

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1st Nov 2024
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023 No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
1st Dec 2023
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023

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1st Dec 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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Who lost Afghanistan? George W. Bush blundered away a winnable war.
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Who lost Afghanistan?

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a week ago
George W. Bush blundered away a winnable war.
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Melt the ICE: The Fight Continues : Twin Cities Protesters Blockade ICE Inside the Federal Building On March 1, 2026, at the conclusion of a week of action against the Immigration and Customs...
5th Mar 2026
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Melt the ICE: The Fight Continues : Twin Cities Protesters Blockade ICE Inside the Federal Building

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5th Mar 2026
On March 1, 2026, at the conclusion of a week of action against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement occupation of the Twin Cities, protesters converged on the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Fort Snelling, Minnesota. At least four hundred people marched on the...
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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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Fiction is truer than fact Willing suspension of disbelief is not a good basis for lawmaking
2nd Apr 2025
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Fiction is truer than fact

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2nd Apr 2025
Willing suspension of disbelief is not a good basis for lawmaking
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