On progress and historical change
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True kilts: Debunking the myths about highlanders and clan tartans
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Seeing more whole
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The blast furnace - 800 years of technology improvement
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How should we think about our different styles of thinking?
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Supreme Court of India on demonetization - A farce in three acts
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Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science and here’s why.
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The year woke broke: A brief history of a contested word
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The Irish Constitution: A critical review
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Thomas Carlyle - "Sign of the Times" (1829)
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Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case
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Can effective altruism avoid collapsing into absurdity?
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Winners of the EA Criticism and Red Teaming Contest
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Defective altruism - the repugnant philosophy of “Effective Altruism” offers nothing to movements for global justice
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The end of history (of philosophy)
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On the wisdom of Noah Smith (Bret Devereaux on the historic method)
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Why no Roman industrial revolution?
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Logistics: How did they do it? Part III, on the move
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The reluctant prophet of effective altruism: William MacAskill's movement set out to help global poor. Now his followers fret about runaway AI. Have they seen our threats clearly, or lost their way?
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Leopoldo López on activism under autocratic regimes
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The maintenance race
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Time Travel: Probability and Impossibility
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Three things I got wrong about patriarchy
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The polyglots of Dardistan - At the crossroads of south and central Asia lies one of the world’s most multilingual places, with songs and poetry to match
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A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick (1729)
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Chasing the treasure fox
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My students cheated... a lot
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How politics poisoned the Evangelical church
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When is a ‘tank’ not a tank?
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The case against the Supreme Court of the United States
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The mechanical transmission of power: Stangenkunst
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Representation and uncertainty
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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A history, a philosophy, a warning
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Absolute power
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How do ancient stories of talking elephants and singing birds encourage a life of truth, nonviolence and compassion?
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Local school districts are caught in the middle of the culture wars as the right tries to gain control
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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things
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What was the TED talk? | Some thoughts on the "inspiresting"
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How civilizations fall: A theory of catabolic collapse
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13,000 pounds at 118 miles per hour: It was the deadliest wreck in years. And the man behind it was one of the FBI’s most notorious informants.
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Why you're christian
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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part I: Words
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The rise and fall of rationality in language
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On progress and historical change
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Taming the Beast: The Inner Battle for Control
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Pompeii still has buried secrets - The first major excavations in decades shed light on how ordinary citizens shopped and snacked—and where slaves slept
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The ingenious ancient technology concealed in the shallows
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David Graeber’s Possible Worlds
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An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the age of discovery
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Gender in Latin and beyond
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