Blogs tagged "history"

The site is called Külhöyük, in the Oyaca neighborhood of Ankara’s Gölbaşı district, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) s...

The body has been lying face-down for close to two thousand years. When archaeologists reached tomb 162, on the outsk...

Egyptian blue predates the pyramids’ final form. Egyptian artisans were producing it before 3100 BCE, making it, as f...

Although during the horrific events of the first recorded appearance of the Bubonic Plague during the time of Justini...

Just because deaths during the Justinian Plague were so numerous that they couldn't dig graves and had to resort to p...

Sometimes a disaster strikes a civilization that kills so many so fast that the systems for providing support and bur...

Before July’s Nagoya Basho (July grand sumo tournament), I predicted which wrestlers I thought would reach 10 wins. N...

We went just over one week without daily Pook-Emu Bee links. Sickness (probably mostly allergies) and work intervened...

I discovered two new bots in my server logs last week: RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot. They come from RSS Amplifier and...

By manipulating paper flaps, the child could turn Adam into Eve into a mermaid, a lion into a griffin into an eagle —...

Vibrant textiles from the dazzling Timurid metropolis of Bukhara.

Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in *The Matrix*, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of diffi...

The Balance is a cooperative card game published by New Venture Games. The objective of the game is to set the top ca...

We develop a formula for counting the number of bags of length \(l\) containing \(d\) distinct elements drawn from \(...

This year is the 60th anniversary of Joseph Weizenbaum’s article “ELIZA—A Computer Program For the Study of Natural L...

One Hindu nationalist organization remade society from the ground up. Other ambitious projects should learn how they ...

Homer’s Odyssey offers a window into the Greek view of life, which can teach us what moral excellence truly means. Th...

Chinese companies’ AI strategy can economically cripple American labs unless the U.S. government competently counters...

THE CHINESE socio-political system differs from our own. From the perspective of the topic of this conference, here i...

THUS WE BOMB Iran. The administration does not give consistent reasons for the attack on Iran: some say we war to cha...

LAST MONTH American Affairs published my review of Alexander Karp’s The Technological Republic. While I had plenty cr...

This week, at long last, we begin our long-delayed but always expected something that we blog for: the Hearts of Iron...

Hey folks! Fireside this week! Last week’s post was a monster (over 10,000 words compared to our more typically ~6,00...

This week we’re doing another one of our series of military theory primers, this time focusing on a fairly simple con...