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4 votes
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The new, extremely online era of Christianity
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Marxism and Buddhism: Life is suffering, whether you sit under a Bodhi Tree or stand with the workers. But do the two schools agree on the remedy?
12 votes -
In an apparent first, genetic genealogy aids a wrongful conviction case
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My religious OCD convinced me God would never love me
6 votes -
The Bronze Age of Scandinavia was made possible by trade with Great Britain
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The Jewish case for open borders
11 votes -
Forgotten History: Musée des Plans-Reliefs
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Andrey Fedorov – Yeltsin considered selling ceded Karelia territory to Finland in 1991
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Inside the radical beliefs of Israel Folau's Truth of Jesus Christ Church, founded by his father Eni
7 votes -
An archaeological fairytale – medieval ships found in the heart of Oslo
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Anyone here into conlanging?
I've been creating new languages for a few years now. I like to do it in my spare time, which becomes smaller and smaller each year, mostly from proto-languages that already exist. I'm currently...
I've been creating new languages for a few years now. I like to do it in my spare time, which becomes smaller and smaller each year, mostly from proto-languages that already exist. I'm currently working on a Slavic language in Belarus and Ukraine for fun. Anyone else into this stuff or wanna know more about conlanging in general?
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Caution on bias arguments
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Did Israel Folau actually misquote the Bible? Hell, yes
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What do you think about MBTI theory?
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What’s left of liberalism?: Why the left and right both seem to agree that liberalism has failed us.
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A female historian wrote a book. Two male historians went on NPR to talk about it. They never mentioned her name. It’s Sarah Milov.
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Carrhae 53 BC - Roman–Parthian War
4 votes -
The most important Supreme Court cases of 2019 review
8 votes -
"Cymru am byth!" – How speaking Welsh became cool
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What is the Satanic Temple, and how did a goat-headed statue end up at the Arkansas State Capitol?
6 votes -
The movable tent cities of the Ottoman Empire
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A Propaganda Model - Excerpt from Manufacturing Consent
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Norway reportedly detects radioactive leakage from Soviet submarine ‘Komsomolets’ in Arctic
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Can animals commit crimes?
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Swedish authorities have announced the first Viking boat grave discoveries in the country in more than fifty years
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Felix Ngole wins appeal in victory for Christian freedoms
Felix Ngole wins appeal in victory for Christian freedoms Here is the actual judgement by the Court of Appeal: PDF link This is a key paragraph (Section 5, Paragraph 10, on page 3 in the...
Felix Ngole wins appeal in victory for Christian freedoms
Here is the actual judgement by the Court of Appeal: PDF link
This is a key paragraph (Section 5, Paragraph 10, on page 3 in the document):
The University wrongly confused the expression of religious views with the notion of discrimination. The mere expression of views on theological grounds (e.g. that ‘homosexuality is a sin’) does not necessarily connote that the person expressing such views will discriminate on such grounds. In the present case, there was positive evidence to suggest that the Appellant had never discriminated on such grounds in the past and was not likely to do so in the future (because, as he explained, the Bible prohibited him from discriminating against anybody).
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Ancient indigenous aquaculture site Budj Bim added to UNESCO World Heritage list
8 votes -
The Impossible Dream - How have we come to build a whole culture around a futile, self-defeating enterprise: the pursuit of happiness?
9 votes -
The oral history of the Super Soaker - How a NASA engineer accidentally invented the greatest water gun of all time
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history of the entire world, i guess
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Burying the Nakba: How Israel systematically hides evidence of 1948 expulsion of Arabs
14 votes -
When workers stopped Seattle
6 votes -
Independence National Park is an embarrassing mess. Why doesn’t anyone care?
6 votes -
The first socialist
7 votes -
Why do people say "Jesus H. Christ," and where did the "H" come from?
38 votes -
A linguist’s case against "socialism": History has made the term vague and unproductive. Should it be retired?
7 votes -
How language governs our perceptions of gender
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Ottoman Wars - Battles of Gorjani and Castelnuovo 1537
9 votes -
The Soviet superplane that rattled America
6 votes -
Why certain words are left out of our English Bibles
7 votes -
How this border transformed a subcontinent | India & Pakistan
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In 1989, the Pepsi Company cut a deal with the USSR that left it with a fleet of Russian military ships, making PepsiCo temporarily the sixth-largest Navy in the world
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Emma Goldman, one of history’s best-known anarchists, was born 150 years ago
9 votes -
Death In Ice Valley – New clues in Isdal Woman mystery
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Would the German population more or less readily believe the Holocaust today as compared to 1945?
This is something I was thinking about. When I read about the end of the second world war, the thing which surprises me the most is how easily the German population accepted that their government...
This is something I was thinking about. When I read about the end of the second world war, the thing which surprises me the most is how easily the German population accepted that their government really committed such atrocities (Yes, I used Holocaust in the title, but I mean any genocide commited).
I was wondering how it might go down in our current culture with the emergence of Fake News and alternative "facts"; our post-fact culture. Would they more readily dismiss it as a photoshopped image? Would the impact be mitigated by the meme-ification of genocide?
(To a mod: The title should say « more or less »)
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Digging deeper into Pompeii's past
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A fundamentalist community forges a new identity: Hildale and Colorado City, born of fundamentalist LDS doctrine, are rebuilding themselves—but not without holding on to their core beliefs
8 votes -
The case for reparations
7 votes -
Eastern Front of WWII animated: 1944/1945
6 votes