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Cloud Gate, Chicago’s “Bean” This futuristic sculpture in Millennium Park has become an icon of Chicago. In 1997, the city of...
4th Feb 2025
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Cloud Gate, Chicago’s “Bean”

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4th Feb 2025
This futuristic sculpture in Millennium Park has become an icon of Chicago. In 1997, the city of Chicago was making plans for a patch of land near Grant Park on the shore of Lake Michigan that had previously been a parking lot and a railroad yard. At first, there was talk of...
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Travels in Vietnam In my father's footsteps
4th Feb 2025
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Travels in Vietnam

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4th Feb 2025
In my father's footsteps
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Gold, volk and IQs Hayek’s fatal conceit
3rd Feb 2025
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Gold, volk and IQs

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3rd Feb 2025
Hayek’s fatal conceit
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Watch the First 2+ Hours of MTV’s Inaugural Broadcast (August 1, 1981) Not everyone on August 1, 1981 had a VCR at their disposal, and not everybody stayed up until...
3rd Feb 2025
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Watch the First 2+ Hours of MTV’s Inaugural Broadcast (August 1, 1981)

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3rd Feb 2025
Not everyone on August 1, 1981 had a VCR at their disposal, and not everybody stayed up until midnight. But fortunately at least one person did, in order to tape the first two hours of a new cable channel called MTV: Music Television. Did they know it would be historic? MTV...
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UFO As Aliens Odds, Spending The following are some (lognormal fit) median estimates from some X polls I just ran.
2nd Feb 2025
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UFO As Aliens Odds, Spending

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2nd Feb 2025
The following are some (lognormal fit) median estimates from some X polls I just ran.
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Weekend Roundup Quiz Time!
2nd Feb 2025
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Weekend Roundup

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2nd Feb 2025
Quiz Time!
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On the spread of Traditional African religions during the pre-colonial period. Among the corpus of terracotta figurines discovered in the Greco-Egyptian city of Alexandria dating...
2nd Feb 2025
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On the spread of Traditional African religions during the pre-colonial period.

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2nd Feb 2025
Among the corpus of terracotta figurines discovered in the Greco-Egyptian city of Alexandria dating back to the 2nd century BC is a fine clay vessel in the form of a Nubian priestess of Isis of Philae, who is depicted in a kneeling position while performing a Greek-type mortuary...
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The Seven Deadly Sins Under Death’s Dominion by James Ensor, 1904 “…the eternal black night, death under the colourless earth” – James Ensor on his dread of death    ...
1st Feb 2025
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The Seven Deadly Sins Under Death’s Dominion by James Ensor, 1904

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1st Feb 2025
“…the eternal black night, death under the colourless earth” – James Ensor on his dread of death     Belgian painter and printmaker James Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) etched his Seven Deadly Sins in 1904. To hammer home the message of human foolishness, malice and the...
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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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My Weekly Reader and Gemini (1965,1966) As I got through boxes I found a couple of My Weekly Readers that I had not shared before. My Weekly...
1st Feb 2025
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My Weekly Reader and Gemini (1965,1966)

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1st Feb 2025
As I got through boxes I found a couple of My Weekly Readers that I had not shared before. My Weekly Reader posts seem to be popular for their nostalgia effect and because as ephemera no one saved them from their youth. These particular ones are about the Gemini missions. At the...
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The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962) As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book...
17th Jan 2025
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The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962)

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17th Jan 2025
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book from Cities Service gasoline. It probably was a give-away with purchase. It reflects the early 60s where the Mercury launches had taken place and we were looking ahead to the future....
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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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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 Long Run. The future belongs to them.
8th Jan 2025
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The Long Run.

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8th Jan 2025
The future belongs to them.
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The French Space Cat Felicette France joined the Space Race in the 1950s, and one of her missions was a test flight involving the...
7th Jan 2025
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The French Space Cat Felicette

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7th Jan 2025
France joined the Space Race in the 1950s, and one of her missions was a test flight involving the first (and so far only) cat to enter space. It did not end well for the cat. In the aftermath of the Second World War, France, under the leadership of General Charles De Gaulle, was...
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“To the Finland Station” Trump as a tool of history
7th Jan 2025
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“To the Finland Station”

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7th Jan 2025
Trump as a tool of history
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To Tip or Not To Tip: A Victorian Traveller’s Perspective Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how...
6th Jan 2025
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To Tip or Not To Tip: A Victorian Traveller’s Perspective

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6th Jan 2025
Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how much/whether to tip rumble on, but they are not new. Even in the 18th and 19th centuries, travellers were complaining about the amount of unwanted or unexpected extras they had to pay...
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Feels Gone Wrong The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me...
5th Jan 2025
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Feels Gone Wrong

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5th Jan 2025
The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me the huge emotional appeal of becoming a musician like them.
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The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously...
5th Jan 2025
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The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa

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5th Jan 2025
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously demonstrated by the golden pilgrimage of Mali's Mansa Musa in 1324, Islam had only arrived in the region at the close of the 1st millennium.
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2024 in writing A brief recap of my 2024 posts
4th Jan 2025
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2024 in writing

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4th Jan 2025
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
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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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Cicero and Leadership Philosophy in Action?
3rd Jan 2025
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Cicero and Leadership

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3rd Jan 2025
Philosophy in Action?
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Truth in the old myths On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
3rd Jan 2025
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Truth in the old myths

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3rd Jan 2025
On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
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Science Proceeds One Question at a Time MIDWAY through his 900 page history of biology, zoologist Ernst Mayr considers the problem posed by...
1st Jan 2025
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Science Proceeds One Question at a Time

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1st Jan 2025
MIDWAY through his 900 page history of biology, zoologist Ernst Mayr considers the problem posed by Alfred Wallace. Wallace was a contemporary of Charles Darwin who independently developed a theory of speciation by means of natural selection. By the time Wallace came on the scene...
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Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters “If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you...
1st Jan 2025
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Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters

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1st Jan 2025
“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with nothing beneath it?” — Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes     Volker Hermes lampoons traditional...
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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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Summary of changes for December 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Jan 2025
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Summary of changes for December 2025

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1st Jan 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December. Wiki, added alternator to engine care. Thousand Rooms, added a Danish version of the book, thank you Fyr for the translation! Punk Rabbits, completed 33 new...
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2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead....
1st Jan 2025
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2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review

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1st Jan 2025
It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead. Here, we review the events of 2024 and our own contributions to the fight for a better world. A year that began amid genocide in Palestine and war in Ukraine and Sudan is concluding...
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Age and infertility Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
29th Dec 2024
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Age and infertility

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29th Dec 2024
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
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Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The untold story of EgyptAir flight 804
22nd Dec 2024
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Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The untold story of EgyptAir flight 804

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News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7 Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
12th Dec 2024
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News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7

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12th Dec 2024
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
6th Dec 2024
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I

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6th Dec 2024
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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Why did clothing become boring? An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
4th Dec 2024
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Why did clothing become boring?

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4th Dec 2024
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
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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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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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Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
3rd Dec 2024
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Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple

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3rd Dec 2024
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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The Assassination of Malcolm X Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
3rd Dec 2024
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The Assassination of Malcolm X

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3rd Dec 2024
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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The ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit NYC, 2011 Jason Calacanis and Abraham Hyatt at the 2WAY Summit; photo by Shashi Bellamkonda. We couldn’t have...
3rd Dec 2024
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The ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit NYC, 2011

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3rd Dec 2024
Jason Calacanis and Abraham Hyatt at the 2WAY Summit; photo by Shashi Bellamkonda. We couldn’t have asked for a better venue. The Roone Arledge Auditorium at Columbia University had a full stage, sprung wooden floors, round tables decorated in elegant white cloth, and a huge...
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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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2nd Dec 2024
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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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911) The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
2nd Dec 2024
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)

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2nd Dec 2024
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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Jonathan Chait [ Content warning: angry, contemptuous ranting that accomplishes nothing. ] I didn't really know who...
1st Dec 2024
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Jonathan Chait

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1st Dec 2024
[ Content warning: angry, contemptuous ranting that accomplishes nothing. ] I didn't really know who Jonathan Chait was until last week when I unfortunately read this essay of his (from February 2016) on “Why Liberals Should Support a Trump Republican Nomination”. I've said a lot...
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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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The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to... The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
1st Dec 2024
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The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to Eastern Congo.

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1st Dec 2024
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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Weekend Roundup Classics Gifts!
1st Dec 2024
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Weekend Roundup

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1st Dec 2024
Classics Gifts!
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Summary of changes for November 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
30th Nov 2024
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Summary of changes for November 2024

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30th Nov 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook. Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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Global crime How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
25th Nov 2024
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Global crime

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25th Nov 2024
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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The ideology of Donald J. Trump Does Donald J.
12th Nov 2024
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The ideology of Donald J. Trump

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12th Nov 2024
Does Donald J.
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Tension-Filled Black Holes Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
6th Nov 2024
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Tension-Filled Black Holes

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6th Nov 2024
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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No More Heroes. Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
6th Nov 2024
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No More Heroes.

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6th Nov 2024
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for... Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
6th Nov 2024
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History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for Donald Trump’s Return to Power

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6th Nov 2024
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here. The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again We...
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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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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie (A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
5th Nov 2024
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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie

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5th Nov 2024
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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The Spiral of Wrath: The crash of Armavia flight 967
5th Nov 2024
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The Spiral of Wrath: The crash of Armavia flight 967

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Just ANSWER THE QUESTION Here's a Math SE pathology that bugs me. OP will ask "I'm trying to prove that groups and are...
5th Nov 2024
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Just ANSWER THE QUESTION

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5th Nov 2024
Here's a Math SE pathology that bugs me. OP will ask "I'm trying to prove that groups and are isomorphic, I constructed this bijection but I see that it's not a homomorphism. Is it sufficient, or do I need to find a bijective homomorphism?" And respondent will reply in the...
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Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history. There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
3rd Nov 2024
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Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.

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3rd Nov 2024
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
2nd Nov 2024
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream

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2nd Nov 2024
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff! Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
1st Nov 2024
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!

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1st Nov 2024
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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Democracy The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
1st Nov 2024
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Democracy

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The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
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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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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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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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Republican Debates on China: A Political Compass MANY HAVE TRIED to pin Trump to Heritage’s “Project 2025.” The Trump campaign has not only refused...
31st Oct 2024
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Republican Debates on China: A Political Compass

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MANY HAVE TRIED to pin Trump to Heritage’s “Project 2025.” The Trump campaign has not only refused to endorse Project 2025—they have refused to endorse any detailed policy plan whatsoever. Trump prefers to keep his options open. One unanticipated benefit of this approach is that...
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The Tears of Strangers are only water On the limits of empathy
25th Oct 2024
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The Tears of Strangers are only water

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On the limits of empathy
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The Ocarina The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
22nd Oct 2024
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The Ocarina

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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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Fell in Love with Fire : A Documentary about the 2019 Uprising in Chile Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October...
21st Oct 2024
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Fell in Love with Fire : A Documentary about the 2019 Uprising in Chile

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Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months of rebellion by creating extensive networks of self-determination and mutual aid. This is an inspiring portrayal...
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The Dark Ages A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
13th Oct 2024
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The Dark Ages

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A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
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On 17th century "cocaine" A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
9th Oct 2024
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On 17th century "cocaine"

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A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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Continues the Hiatus, 2024 Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
7th Oct 2024
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Continues the Hiatus, 2024

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Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE) Journal of African cities: chapter 15
6th Oct 2024
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The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)

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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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Culture Drift Predicts Decadence Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
6th Oct 2024
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Culture Drift Predicts Decadence

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Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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Things Don't Always Get Better. And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
2nd Oct 2024
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Things Don't Always Get Better.

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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
2nd Oct 2024
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Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges

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On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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Filter Bubbles and the RWW Real-Time Web Summit, June 2010 Me at our first NYC event, in June 2010. Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid. It was another late...
2nd Oct 2024
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Filter Bubbles and the RWW Real-Time Web Summit, June 2010

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Me at our first NYC event, in June 2010. Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid. It was another late arrival coming into New York — near midnight on Sunday, June 6 — but this time I had booked a hotel in Manhattan. It was a fifteen-minute walk from the Metropolitan Pavilion, our...
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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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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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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
1st Oct 2024
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook

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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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Washington DC is Not a Popularity Contest IN 2009 PAUL GRAHAM WROTE A THOUGHTFUL ESSAY titled “Cities and Ambition.” There he proposes that a...
27th Sep 2024
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Washington DC is Not a Popularity Contest

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IN 2009 PAUL GRAHAM WROTE A THOUGHTFUL ESSAY titled “Cities and Ambition.” There he proposes that a great city is defined by the sort of ambitions it kindles—or perhaps more accurately, the sort of ambitious it gathers. As Graham puts it:
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Nightmare at the Edge of the World: The crash of Panarctic Oils flight 416
24th Sep 2024
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Nightmare at the Edge of the World: The crash of Panarctic Oils flight 416

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The case for prisons The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
21st Sep 2024
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The case for prisons

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The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
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A complex bug with a ⸢simple⸣ fix Last month I did a fairly complex piece of systems programming that worked surprisingly well. But...
19th Sep 2024
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A complex bug with a ⸢simple⸣ fix

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Last month I did a fairly complex piece of systems programming that worked surprisingly well. But it had one big bug that took me a day to track down. One reason I find the bug interesting is that it exemplifies the sort of challenges that come up in systems programming. The...
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The third framing Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
9th Sep 2024
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The third framing

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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024! Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
7th Sep 2024
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024!

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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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The Machine Stops. And fiddling won't fix it.
4th Sep 2024
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The Machine Stops.

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And fiddling won't fix it.
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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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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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A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala. It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
1st Sep 2024
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A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.

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It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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The end of the great order under the Heaven A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
22nd Aug 2024
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The end of the great order under the Heaven

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A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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Five Fundamentals of Chinese Grand Strategy Last month Civic Future invited me to join a panel at their annual policy forum. The topic: what the...
17th Aug 2024
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Five Fundamentals of Chinese Grand Strategy

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Last month Civic Future invited me to join a panel at their annual policy forum. The topic: what the United Kingdom should do about China. As I am neither a British citizen nor an expert in British affairs, I thought it impolitic to lecture my hosts on how they should be...
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The Sense Of An Ending. But right back where we started from.
7th Aug 2024
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The Sense Of An Ending.

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But right back where we started from.
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Summary of changes for July 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4th Aug 2024
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Summary of changes for July 2024

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added Sitka, and completed route in us se alaska. Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu. Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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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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Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024 Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
2nd Aug 2024
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024

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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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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...
2nd Aug 2024
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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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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures “Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
1st Aug 2024
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures

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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter NEW Event
1st Aug 2024
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter

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NEW Event
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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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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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The end and the beginning of history Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
8th Jul 2024
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The end and the beginning of history

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Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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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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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
5th Jul 2024
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism

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It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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The Politics of Exhaustion. And the exhaustion of politics.
3rd Jul 2024
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The Politics of Exhaustion.

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And the exhaustion of politics.
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Meeting My Hero, Tim Berners-Lee, at W3C Headquarters In June 2009, I interviewed the man who had made my entire career possible: Tim Berners-Lee. Another...
3rd Jul 2024
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Meeting My Hero, Tim Berners-Lee, at W3C Headquarters

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3rd Jul 2024
In June 2009, I interviewed the man who had made my entire career possible: Tim Berners-Lee. Another of my passion projects as a tech reporter was the Semantic Web (it was always capitalized at the time). In May I’d done a presentation to a Wellington tech gathering about web...
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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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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951 Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
1st Jul 2024
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951

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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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More on Xi Jinping’s Industrial Drive + London Meet Up A few items of interest to my readers: First, at the end of last month I appeared on the German...
27th Jun 2024
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More on Xi Jinping’s Industrial Drive + London Meet Up

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27th Jun 2024
A few items of interest to my readers: First, at the end of last month I appeared on the German Marshall Fund's China Global podcast to discuss the CPC's current techno-industrial drive. You can listen to the full thing on Simplecast, Apple Podcast, or in the embed below:
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Centuries of Childhood The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
11th Jun 2024
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Centuries of Childhood

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The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?
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Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period. Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
11th Jun 2024
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Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.

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11th Jun 2024
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit!  A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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The life of Maynard K. A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
9th Jun 2024
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The life of Maynard K.

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A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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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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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism. Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
5th Jun 2024
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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.

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Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
3rd Jun 2024
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The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise

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3rd Jun 2024
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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Summary of changes for May 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3rd Jun 2024
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Summary of changes for May 2024

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3rd Jun 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
2nd Jun 2024
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos

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2nd Jun 2024
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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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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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 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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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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Immigrant assimilation in Denmark A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
17th May 2024
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Immigrant assimilation in Denmark

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17th May 2024
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
14th May 2024
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal

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

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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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Universities as factories I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
4th May 2024
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Universities as factories

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4th May 2024
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
3rd May 2024
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue

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3rd May 2024
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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The "New" Ancient City Discovering Kavala...
2nd May 2024
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The "New" Ancient City

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Discovering Kavala...
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Summary of changes for 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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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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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction...
1st May 2024
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks

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Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’  – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed. They didn't know. But they know now.
1st May 2024
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.

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They didn't know. But they know now.
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On Selling Your Website — It's OK to Be a Lifestyle Business Instead of the latest installment of my serialized Web 2.0 memoir, this week I want to talk about...
1st May 2024
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On Selling Your Website — It's OK to Be a Lifestyle Business

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1st May 2024
Instead of the latest installment of my serialized Web 2.0 memoir, this week I want to talk about the experience of selling a tech blogging business — and the after-life this can have, which sometimes (maybe most of the time?) can be more hell than heaven. I found out this week...
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Why I love etymologies Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
30th Apr 2024
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Why I love etymologies

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Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
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Genes and social stratification How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
20th Apr 2024
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Genes and social stratification

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How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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The order of inequality Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
12th Apr 2024
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The order of inequality

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Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
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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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a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
6th Apr 2024
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III

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6th Apr 2024
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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The Revolt of the Outer Party. Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
3rd Apr 2024
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The Revolt of the Outer Party.

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Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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Acquisition Talks: Two Suitors Emerge for ReadWriteWeb 'Intro to RWW' slide from a March 2008 presentation. I hadn’t seriously thought of selling...
3rd Apr 2024
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Acquisition Talks: Two Suitors Emerge for ReadWriteWeb

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'Intro to RWW' slide from a March 2008 presentation. I hadn’t seriously thought of selling ReadWriteWeb before 2008, but I knew I needed help to expand the business. Early in the new year Sean Ammirati put me in touch with Bob Evans, a senior executive at CMP Technology, a media...
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Should We Be Skeptics? Is it good to question everything?
1st Apr 2024
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Should We Be Skeptics?

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Is it good to question everything?
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970) From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
1st Apr 2024
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)

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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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Summary of changes for March 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Apr 2024
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Summary of changes for March 2024

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration. Uxn, added 2 new commands...
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Should poor countries remain poor? Stock vs flow approach.
30th Mar 2024
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Should poor countries remain poor?

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Stock vs flow approach.
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Where parents make a difference Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
20th Mar 2024
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Where parents make a difference

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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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"He spoke of computers with some awe" Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
19th Mar 2024
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"He spoke of computers with some awe"

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Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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When The Music's Over ... Turn out the lights.
6th Mar 2024
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When The Music's Over ...

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Turn out the lights.
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Las Vegas and the Microsoft MIX Conference 2007 Stranger in a strange land; me at The Venetian, 28 April, 2007. After the Web 2.0 Expo, it was off...
5th Mar 2024
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Las Vegas and the Microsoft MIX Conference 2007

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Stranger in a strange land; me at The Venetian, 28 April, 2007. After the Web 2.0 Expo, it was off to Las Vegas for Microsoft’s MIX conference, an event to promote the company’s web technologies. My travel, including accommodations at the Venetian on the Strip, was being paid for...
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a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history. the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
3rd Mar 2024
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a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.

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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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Nature in Greek Myth Magical and Medicinal
1st Mar 2024
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Nature in Greek Myth

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Magical and Medicinal
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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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“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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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
1st Mar 2024
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx

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1st Mar 2024
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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Summary of changes for February 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Mar 2024
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Summary of changes for February 2024

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1st Mar 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
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The curious case of the missing period When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
20th Feb 2024
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The curious case of the missing period

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20th Feb 2024
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
13th Feb 2024
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism

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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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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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Lou Reed and the 2006 Web 2.0 Summit In early November I was back in Silicon Valley to attend the annual Web 2.0 Conference, now renamed...
6th Feb 2024
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Lou Reed and the 2006 Web 2.0 Summit

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6th Feb 2024
In early November I was back in Silicon Valley to attend the annual Web 2.0 Conference, now renamed Web 2.0 Summit, and with the theme of “Disruption & Opportunity.” The name change was because the organizers, O’Reilly Media and John Battelle, were expanding and had added a...
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a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
4th Feb 2024
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a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa

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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
2nd Feb 2024
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome

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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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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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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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Why drug history? Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
1st Feb 2024
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Why drug history?

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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973 Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
1st Feb 2024
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973

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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel. I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
1st Feb 2024
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Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.

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1st Feb 2024
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
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Summary of changes for January 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Feb 2024
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Summary of changes for January 2024

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1st Feb 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner. Permacomputing, revamped the page. Flappy Bird,...
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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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I talked to Terry Gross! A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
16th Jan 2024
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I talked to Terry Gross!

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A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
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Digg and the Power Laws of Silicon Valley in 2006 In June 2006 I flew to San Francisco for my third US trip. I arrived at SFO just after midday on...
9th Jan 2024
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Digg and the Power Laws of Silicon Valley in 2006

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9th Jan 2024
In June 2006 I flew to San Francisco for my third US trip. I arrived at SFO just after midday on Monday, June 19, after another sleepless twelve-hour flight from New Zealand. Mike Arrington was hosting me at his place in Atherton again, for which I was grateful. I’d also asked if...
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a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa. a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
7th Jan 2024
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a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.

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a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
5th Jan 2024
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Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords

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5th Jan 2024
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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Can't Do, Won't Do! But striking poses is fun and easy.
3rd Jan 2024
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Can't Do, Won't Do!

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3rd Jan 2024
But striking poses is fun and easy.
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What is TIME? And Dates? The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
2nd Jan 2024
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What is TIME? And Dates?

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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
2nd Jan 2024
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The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present

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2nd Jan 2024
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book “I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
1st Jan 2024
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book

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“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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Crime in the USA A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
30th Dec 2023
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Crime in the USA

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A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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The most interesting things I read in 2023 Most of them are not from 2023
5th Dec 2023
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The most interesting things I read in 2023

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Most of them are not from 2023
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Another Of My Essays in French Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
4th Dec 2023
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Another Of My Essays in French

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4th Dec 2023
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Spicy Noodles: Dave Winer and the Web 2.0 Workgroup Celebrating the formation of the Web 2.0 Workgroup at Jing Jing, Palo Alto. From left to right: Gabe...
4th Dec 2023
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Spicy Noodles: Dave Winer and the Web 2.0 Workgroup

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Celebrating the formation of the Web 2.0 Workgroup at Jing Jing, Palo Alto. From left to right: Gabe Rivera, Dave Winer, me, Mike Arrington, Fred Oliveira; photo by Dave Winer. During my stay at the TechCrunch ranch, Mike Arrington, Fred Oliveira and I had been discussing how to...
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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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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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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
1st Dec 2023
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays

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1st Dec 2023
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots “The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt  ...
1st Dec 2023
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots

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1st Dec 2023
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt   Elliott Erwitt died at his home in New York City on 29 November 2023. He leaves us with remarkable archive of fabulous photographs of the great and good, the many places he visited over...
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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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Man the Hunter Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
19th Nov 2023
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Man the Hunter

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19th Nov 2023
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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The three German fears Historical origins of the malaise
15th Nov 2023
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The three German fears

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

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12th Nov 2023
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
8th Nov 2023
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The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century

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8th Nov 2023
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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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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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
3rd Nov 2023
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces

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3rd Nov 2023
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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Books To Help Us Understand The World? Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
1st Nov 2023
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Books To Help Us Understand The World?

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1st Nov 2023
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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Who Was Julian? Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
1st Nov 2023
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Who Was Julian?

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1st Nov 2023
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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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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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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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo. In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
8th Oct 2023
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.

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8th Oct 2023
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
6th Oct 2023
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts

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6th Oct 2023
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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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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ReadWriteWeb on Wayback Machine vs. Old Screenshots While preparing for the publication of my “Web 2.0 memoir” here on Cybercultural, I was fortunate to...
4th Oct 2023
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ReadWriteWeb on Wayback Machine vs. Old Screenshots

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4th Oct 2023
While preparing for the publication of my “Web 2.0 memoir” here on Cybercultural, I was fortunate to discover a screenshot of ReadWriteWeb from 24 September 2005 (US). I was thrilled to come across this, for several reasons: It’s a rare screenshot of what RWW looked like at that...
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Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
3rd Oct 2023
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Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude

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3rd Oct 2023
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
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Summary of changes for September 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
2nd Oct 2023
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Summary of changes for September 2023

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2nd Oct 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs. Niju,...
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks Starting Tomorrow
1st Oct 2023
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks

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1st Oct 2023
Starting Tomorrow
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On general futility of political discussions with people Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
1st Oct 2023
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On general futility of political discussions with people

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1st Oct 2023
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious? I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
30th Sep 2023
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Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?

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30th Sep 2023
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Simulating History with ChatGPT The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
12th Sep 2023
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Simulating History with ChatGPT

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12th Sep 2023
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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Tolkien and the Classics Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
8th Sep 2023
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Tolkien and the Classics

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8th Sep 2023
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
8th Sep 2023
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Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies

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8th Sep 2023
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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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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**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
2nd Sep 2023
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**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history

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2nd Sep 2023
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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Summary of changes for August 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Sep 2023
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Summary of changes for August 2023

from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Sep 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
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Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023 Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
1st Sep 2023
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Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023

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1st Sep 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
5th Aug 2023
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a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history

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5th Aug 2023
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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Sophocles' Swansong Oedipus at Colonus
4th Aug 2023
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Sophocles' Swansong

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4th Aug 2023
Oedipus at Colonus
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