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4 votes
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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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Papers behind the pistol: Mauser's archives on the Model 1910
4 votes -
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
23 votes -
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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Thousand year old 12cm-long iron arrowhead was found high up in the mountains near Eidfjord in Norway
4 votes -
The musicians helping revive the Cornish language
9 votes -
Long shot: The story of a Kurdish sniper
7 votes -
MI6 accused of thwarting efforts to solve the 1961 killing of UN chief Dag Hammarskjöld
8 votes -
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
11 votes -
Inuit combine nine different Inuktitut scripts in one standard system
7 votes -
Religion for the nonreligious
11 votes -
China and Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits
7 votes -
The Wave that changed the world
7 votes -
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
6 votes -
Canada’s Inuit to get unified orthography
9 votes -
The awkward questions about slavery from tourists in the US South
18 votes -
Politics and the English language
11 votes -
Samuel Morland, Magister Mechanicorum
5 votes -
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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Sweden marks 25th anniversary of Estonia ferry disaster – some survivors and relatives want an independent international inquiry into the 1994 accident
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Altaic: Rise and fall of a linguistic hypothesis
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After Labour's conference pledge to scrap Ofsted and private schools, does the envied Finnish education system provide the blueprint?
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The unlikeliest cult in history
11 votes -
Down to seven vets, Pearl Harbor survivors' group in California holds final meeting
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The life and work of Lady Hale
4 votes -
Why so many Americans are turning to Buddhism
19 votes -
Raoul Wallenberg is thought to have saved as many as 30,000 Jews but his descendants do not know how, when or why he died
7 votes -
The Christian right is helping drive liberals away from religion
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Pronunciation help - Latin
I'm starting school this coming Monday with the intent on getting a degree in horticulture. My classes include botany and plant identification. Something I struggle with is knowing how to...
I'm starting school this coming Monday with the intent on getting a degree in horticulture. My classes include botany and plant identification. Something I struggle with is knowing how to pronounce words with Latin roots. Not knowing how to pronounce words makes it harder to commit words to memory, which of course makes it more difficult to recall. For example the words Leguminosae / Fabaceae - I know they are legumes, but have no idea how to pronounce it. It makes reading difficult because I find myself skimming. Does anyone have any resources that can help me pronounce the words I am reading.
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How to keep teachers from leaving the profession
9 votes -
The Christian converts who are setting fire to sacred Aboriginal objects
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English is not normal: No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language.
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West Zealand has given the green light to rebuild a Viking fortress on its original archaeological site, more than 1,000 years after it first stood there
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When a newspaper started a town: The story of Lake Michigan Beach
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A bronze cauldron dating back to the Roman Age has been unearthed in a burial cairn in central Norway
10 votes -
George Pell seeks leave to appeal child sex abuse convictions in High Court
News article: George Pell seeks leave to appeal child sex abuse convictions in High Court Background: How does the High Court decide whether to grant George Pell a final hearing?
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CGP Grey: The Race to Win Staten Island
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Fear and oppression in Xinjiang: China’s war on Uighur culture
10 votes