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How Britain dishonoured its African first world war dead
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The first transatlantic telegraph cable was a bold, beautiful failure
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In Russia, the ultimate scary story is about losing your coat
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Translation and the family of things - A young writer discovers her grandmother’s literary secret
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Oslo's city council wants the Norwegian capital to have an official name in Sámi
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The 1619 Project by the New York Times
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The most gender-switched names in US history
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Killing time during the Trojan War with Ajax and Achilles
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Buried in ice - The Franklin Expedition cemetary
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Iron: From mythical to mundane
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How skeletons of WWI ships came to rest in the Potomac
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The invented Chinese names of the 2019 federal election — ranked
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Medieval Fighting Techniques - Mounted vs Foot (Lance vs Polearm & Sword)
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Are liberal arts colleges doomed? The cautionary tale of Hampshire College and the broken business model of American higher education
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Machiavelli I – S.P.Q.F. (Begins Machiavelli Series)
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Martyr of Verdun: Émile Driant's Command Post
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The secret mission to seize Nazi map data: How a covert US Army intelligence unit canvassed war-torn Europe, capturing intelligence with incalculable strategic value
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Papers behind the pistol: Mauser's archives on the Model 1910
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The assassination of Julius Caesar (The Ides of March, 44 B.C.E.)
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Nobel winning economists experiment upon the poor, but their research doesn't solve poverty
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What teaching ethics in Appalachia taught me about bridging America’s partisan divide
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What if we nuke a city?
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4,000-year-old mummies showed early signs of heart disease
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Vicious bigotry, reluctant acceptance: How Italians became "White"
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Thousand year old 12cm-long iron arrowhead was found high up in the mountains near Eidfjord in Norway
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The musicians helping revive the Cornish language
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Long shot: The story of a Kurdish sniper
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MI6 accused of thwarting efforts to solve the 1961 killing of UN chief Dag Hammarskjöld
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The Oracle of Delphi - Chapter 1: The Center of the World
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A thread on the devil in Islamic tradition and folklore
@aaolomi: Islam, like Christianity and Judaism, has a devil. But Iblis, as he's known to Muslims, differs from the red-skinned and horned devil popular in "Western" imagination. A thread on the devil in Islamic tradition and folklore
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Shooting near synagogue in Germany leaves at least two people dead, was streamed on Twitch
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China is destroying Uighur graveyards, leaving behind human bones and broken tombs in what activists call an effort to eradicate the ethnic group’s identity in Xinjiang
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Thirty years ago: A look back at 1989
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Inuit combine nine different Inuktitut scripts in one standard system
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Religion for the nonreligious
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China and Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits
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The Wave that changed the world
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Richard Dawkins in conversation with Penn Jillette at Live Talks LA
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I need ideas for philosphical questions relating to technology. (More details below)
So I have a philosophy and rationality class in cegep. Currently, the topics are pretty general since that's well, what the class is about but well, those don't interest me as much as the debates...
So I have a philosophy and rationality class in cegep. Currently, the topics are pretty general since that's well, what the class is about but well, those don't interest me as much as the debates around Open Access, Copyright, Open Data, Free Software, Piracy, etc. relating to technology
but well, in some of those cases, it would be hard for my teacher to be able to grade if what I'm saying is true so well, I'm creating this in the hopes that some of you have ideas for questions which might interest me but still be easy to enough for my philosophy teacher to well, be able to evaluate my work.
Of course I've already asked my teacher if I could do a question which isn't necessarily related to the class beforehand but he's a little scared of what I might come up with, hah.
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"You can't say that! Stories have to be about white people"
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'Manhattan of the desert': Civil war puts Yemen's ancient skyscrapers at risk
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Canada’s Inuit to get unified orthography
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The awkward questions about slavery from tourists in the US South
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Politics and the English language
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Samuel Morland, Magister Mechanicorum
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What if the US were treated like the rogue nation it is?
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Interview with one of the developers of Interslavic: the constructed language used in "The Painted Bird" which aims to be mutually intelligible with all Slavic languages.
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The hedge fund billionaire’s guide to buying your kids a better shot at not just one elite college, but lots of them
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Life on the Mississippi: Mark Twain painted an evocative vision of the Mississippi River, but he didn’t tell the whole story
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