Offpunk manifesto
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The long, knotty, world-spanning story of string
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Don't take the black pill (text adaptation)
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“Hope is a method: If I do something about this situation, I might change it enough so that I can do something else about this situation.” -- Cory Doctorow
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The Oregon Trail’s hidden graves are being found by cadaver dogs
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There is no ‘hard problem of consciousness’
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The glass famine
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A skeptical overview of AI and consciousness
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With swords, axes and shields, competitors from thirty countries are going head-to-head in the grounds of a Danish fortress in a modern version of old-fashioned battle
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How Die Zeit built a searchable database of Nazi party members
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Shropshire blacksmith is part of a team that has been invited to Denmark to forge an authentic anchor for a reconstructed Viking ship
16 votes -
Thousands of historical reenactors have gathered in Grunwald, Poland, to commemorate the 616th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald (video)
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A Roman scroll that should be ash has just been read without ever being opened
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A philosopher’s one-word theory to explain why the world feels so weird: uni-context
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Readers rate poems worse when they believe they're written by AI, despite their ability to detect AI being no better than chance
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I sail the world in a replica 10th-century Viking longboat – it has brought new friendships and showed me how generous people can be
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The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over thirty-five years ago and contains more than 200,000 maps
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Japanese translation request - achievement stickers
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The Online Accent Database: Explore authentic accents with a growing video library of real-world interviews
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Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops
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Rare copy of Declaration of Independence found by UK National Archives in papers of captured US ship
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Wit, unker, git: the lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy
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On the US Declaration of Independence
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Thunder mug and tea voider: understanding the chamber pot in early America
14 votes -
How to ask for help (in an academic context)
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From 1638-1655 a forgotten Swedish settlement extended across the Delaware Valley – smallest, least-populated and shortest-lived European colony in the US was also the most clandestine
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Archaeologists have discovered a huge Viking Age textile production site in Denmark – dates back more than 1,000 years and underlines the sophistication of Viking society
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We can fix the future, Star Trek shows us how
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Pre-modern armies for worldbuilders, part III: paying for it
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Should the plural of "milf" be "milfs" or "milves"?
Tell Tildes your opinion
73 votes -
Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie
34 votes -
How a Swedish king went on strike in 1768 – this moment in political history poses an interesting question: does a monarchy need a monarch?
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Den Gamle By, located in Aarhus, Denmark, has claimed the European Museum of the Year Award 2026
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Why young men sound "less manly"
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It's not just X. It's Y.
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Swedish fisherman digging for worms stumbles upon cache of silver coins, beads, rings and pendants dating to the 12th century
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An open letter to the University of California Regents requesting that standardized testing be re-introduced into admissions, >200 UC Professors signatures
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CJ the X & Prof. C. Thi Nguyen | Loosely-structured discussion on philosophy of Games, Metrics, Values
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A Dialogue on Freedom
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The high‑tech shipbuilding methods that helped Vikings dominate the seas
6 votes -
Spanish Civil War animated
6 votes -
"The reason I'm not an atheist is that I think the philosophical arguments against it are unanswerable"
34 votes -
Is British English actually better than American English?
I often hear that British English is better than American English, I've also heard people say that British English is "real english", but I'm not really sure why that is ? what makes it better in...
I often hear that British English is better than American English, I've also heard people say that British English is "real english", but I'm not really sure why that is ?
what makes it better in your opinion and what makes American English worse ?
personally, I'm indian and I find it much easier to understand American English.29 votes -
The VCs of BC (2015)
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Everyone's got a proof when they explode
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Swedish for "the", or: why I hate linguistics
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What's the longest place name in continental Europe?
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How do you preserve a 400 year old Swedish warship? Vasamuseet in Stockholm is tackling the continued challenge of maintaing the 17th century Vasa.
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Iceland pushes Apple to add Icelandic language support
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The 18th-century English fake news that helped spawn an American sea
10 votes