The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.
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Why military history?
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Life during wartime: How west Belfast became the frontline of the Troubles
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Fireside Friday: Crisis in the democracies of antiquity
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Iron, how did they make it? Part I, Mining
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How the 1619 Project took over 2020
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A libertarian walks into a bear: The utopian plot to liberate an American town (and some bears)
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The paradox of suspense
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We need a new approach to teaching modern Chinese history: We have lazily repeated false narratives for too long
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Post-politics and the future of the left (2015)
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The deep Anthropocene - A revolution in archaeology has exposed the extraordinary extent of human influence over our planet’s past and its future
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The school
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Zombies (philosophy)
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Philosophy’s systemic racism
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Fake authenticity
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We don’t know our potential
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How to write fake global history
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Confessions of a former bastard cop
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The bombing and the breakthrough: How a chemical weapons disaster in World War II led to a US cover-up - and a new cancer treatment
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The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history
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Thomas Carlyle - "Sign of the Times" (1829)
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Speech acts
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Celebrations of Progress - A look at some major celebrations of historical achievements, and thoughts about why it seems like nothing similar has happened recently
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Redefining “racism”: Against activist lexicography
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The ethics of deep learning AI and the epistemic opacity dilemma
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In praise of idleness
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A neurophilosophy of autonomous weapons and warfare
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The philosophy of cricket
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What is MasterClass actually selling?
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August 6th, 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan
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The Amish keep to themselves. And they’re hiding a horrifying secret: "A year of reporting by Cosmo and Type Investigations reveals a culture of incest, rape, and abuse."
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Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system
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How compulsory unionization makes us more free
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At a loss for words: How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
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How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
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Hiroshima (1946)
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Situating LessWrong in contemporary philosophy: An interview with Jon Livengood
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Was the 2004 US election in Ohio unfairly tipped to Bush?
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When Senator Joe McCarthy defended Nazis
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Ashoka's moral empire
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The practical case on why we need the humanities
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How should I refer to you? | Review of “What's Your Pronoun?”, by Dennis Baron
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The history of philosophy in global context: three case studies
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The rape kit’s secret history - This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime
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The still-vital case for liberalism in a radical age
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Eugène François Vidocq
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"My Immortal" as alchemical allegory
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Black Death, COVID, and why we keep telling the myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and bad Middle Ages
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Ulysses S. Grant's presidency from the perspective of labor and property
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Wise thoughts: Summaries of classic philosophical works in words of one syllable
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