Looking back at the Future of Humanity Institute
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History is in the making - It's technology and ideas, not politics, that change our lives the most. History should reflect that.
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The gossip trap - How civilization came to be and how social media is ending it
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The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown
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1891 New Orleans lynchings
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I now think a heretical form of Christianity might be true
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Should a country speak a single language? In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi.
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Notes on Guyana
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The English Paradox: Four decades of life and language in Japan
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How China is like the 19th century US
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s life, insanity, and legacy
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A trail gone cold
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Epiousion
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That collective feeling - The rise and fall of New York clubbing
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Review: Fears of a Setting Sun, by Dennis C. Rasmussen
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We may be close to rediscovering thousands of texts that had been lost for millennia. Their contents may reshape how we understand the Ancient World.
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The last of the Zoroastrians. A funeral, a family, and a journey into a disappearing religion. (2020)
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Review: South Africa's Brave New World, by R.W. Johnson
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The Circassian genocide, Russian Empire's systematic mass murder, ethnic cleansing and expulsion of 95–97% of the Circassians, resulting in 1 to 1.5 million deaths during the Russo-Circassian War
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Inside Ziklag, the secret organization of wealthy Christians trying to sway the US election and change the country
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The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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Why are we here? On the philosophical possibilities of “cosmic purpose”.
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The world’s most annoying man: Steven Pinker
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Government without states (how to raise a tribal army in pre-Roman Europe, part II)
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When the CIA messes up
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Divine Hiddenness argument against God’s existence
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Pigeons in the Arctic: Part III: Sir John Ross’s 1850-51 search for the lost Franklin Bay expedition
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How to build 300,000 airplanes in five years
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Alexander the Great's untold story: Excavations in northern Greece are revealing the world that shaped the future king
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Bread, how did they make it? Part IV: Markets, merchants and the tax man
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Unlocking the mystery of Paris' most secret underground society
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Daniel Dennett: 'Where Am I?'
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Meta in Myanmar, Part II: The Crisis
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Utopian Realism, a speech by Bruce Sterling
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The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language
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Why Panama dollarized
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Sociology’s race problem: Urban ethnographers do more harm than good in speaking for Black communities. They see only suffering, not diversity or joy.
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About General Grant’s memoirs
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A Roman diplomat’s famous fifth-century journey into the heart of Hunnic territory
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How Russian-language poets and their translators have responded to the war in Ukraine
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On the nature of ancient evidence
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The Space Shuttle misdirection (1991)
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Do artifacts have politics? (1980)
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Jacob’s Dream - MAGA meets the Age of Aquarius
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Surprising detail in New York bank records helped a historian bust a longstanding myth about Irish immigrants
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The Second Soul, Part I (on salt)
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An American education: Notes from UATX
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List of unusual units of measurement
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Mennonites are pious Christians who eschew much of the modern world. But in Mexico even they have not escaped the pull of the drug cartels.
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Tools for thinking about censorship
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