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6 votes
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What do revolutionary new Sudoku techniques teach us about real-world problem solving?
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London pirate radio adverts 1984-1993, vol. 1
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I no longer grade my students’ work – and I wish I had stopped sooner
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Justice Stevens reads the fine print
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Why Belgium (still) exists
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How China conquered the keyboard
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The origins of the Antichrist
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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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The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class with Elizabeth Warren
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Three centuries on, a shaman's precious rune drum returns home – instrument confiscated by the Danes is given back to the Sámi
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Mind uploading
9 votes -
Naval gladiator battles - What were they like?
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Belgium: A nation
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Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship, lost in 1915, is found in Antarctica
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Duolingo on Ukrainian and Russian: How do these languages differ?
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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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Power buys you distance from the crime
3 votes -
Chernobyl's death toll (or, how I learned to live with Chernobyl's legacy)
2 votes -
Is immortality desirable?
4 votes -
Analytic feminism
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Mysticism’s function
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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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Who am I?
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The Mexican state does not live up its inheritance
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How a spectacular piece of pedantry created an international enclave
5 votes -
New gender-neutral pronoun is likely to enter the official Norwegian language within a year, the Language Council of Norway has confirmed
17 votes -
When hundreds of vampire-hunting children invaded a Scottish cemetery — and helped spur a comic book ban
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How did English medieval peasants see themselves?
7 votes -
The English language rules we know – but don’t know we know
17 votes -
How civilizations fall: A theory of catabolic collapse
7 votes -
Roman Cataphracts (1st-5th Century) | Units of History
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Is it wrong to believe without sufficient evidence? W.K. Clifford’s “The Ethics of Belief”
7 votes -
How to criticize with kindness
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Mers el Kebir 1940 - Britain attacks her ally
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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.
18 votes -
Jordan Peterson’s resignation is about one thing: Money
12 votes -
The SAT will go completely digital by 2024
5 votes -
Why you're christian
7 votes -
Stealing Britain's history: When metal detectorists go rogue
9 votes -
What was watchtower duty like on the Roman frontier?
7 votes -
UN's culture agency adds Nordic clinker boats to its list of traditions that represent the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
4 votes -
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen master, dies at 95
16 votes -
What words would you want to see 'reclaimed'?
Reclaiming a word means stripping it of it's negative baggage and giving it either a neutral or positive meaning. The most common example is the word Queer going from a slur to a descriptive term...
Reclaiming a word means stripping it of it's negative baggage and giving it either a neutral or positive meaning. The most common example is the word Queer going from a slur to a descriptive term for non cis-het people.
My personal pick would be returning the term "incel" to it's original meaning of "involuntary/involuntarily celibate" or someone who wants a relationship but doesn't have one, because the word is currently associated with the few tens of thousands of extremists who occasionally commit terrorist attacks, consider the redistribution of women reasonable and created the black-pill, but the amount of men (and realistically also women) who would consider themselves as wanting a relationship but not having one is much higher than a hundred thousand violent extremists, and if they could all describe themselves as incels, I think that would help steer the conversation about wanting a partner and not having one away from the extremists and to the much more numerous pool of mostly young people, seemingly mostly men who just want a partner and can't have one and usually mostly just feel bad about it to varying intensities. It wouldn't completely detach the term from cringe online right tropes as a lot of the dudes who can be described as incels often tend to fuel the kind of "women aren't real"/"Girls don't exist on the internet" culture that makes complaining about dating so 'lame'. (As in, the default reply is "just do basic self-improvement it'll put you ahead of most people lol".)
Another term I would reclaim if I could is the Red-pill/Blue-pill dichotomy with becoming red-pilled either being a joke about some vaguely red pill used to transition or as a shorthand for adopting leftist beliefs, mainly because the creators of The Matrix were Trans women who intended the movie to have a strong Trans subtext, and red is usually a leftist color instead of a conservative one, so becoming red-pilled meaning becoming a leftist is more intuitive in most places.
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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part I: Words
6 votes -
Maps Are Fun! (1946)
3 votes