Blogs tagged "history"

Fakir is a term of Arabic origin that can be translated as “poor” and originally referred to a Muslim holy man, a Suf...

The Minister of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, has announced the discovery in the ancient city of ...

The Potniški Center intersection, in the heart of Ljubljana, has become a genuine hive of archaeological activity in ...

I wrote not too long ago about Bolingbroke and his adversarial relationship with hui cousin, Richard II. It might be ...

The Lords Appellant must have felt they had done good service to the kingdom of England after the Merciless Parliamen...

After the Merciless Parliament in 1388 had eliminated the five specific advisors to Richard II that they considered t...

I learned from a Sumo Stats post that the 2026 Nagoya Basho marked the first grand sumo tournament since the July 199...

I have a PocketBook InkPad Color and PocketBook Color (both first generation). I run KOReader on both. I tried to do ...

I was checking my backlinks on Ahrefs when I saw one from the Chicago Sun Times. I do not recall having had a Chicago...

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

Photographs from when Atlantic City beaches featured artists ornately sculpting sand.

A Zoroastrian text about serpents translated by the President of the Bombay Anthropological Society.

Within the history of cryptography, the tale of how Bletchley Park broke Germany’s Enigma cipher has been told many t...

TimesSquare is a programming puzzle created by Dennis Shasha and published in the April 2026 issue of Communications ...

Over the past year, I’ve been acting as the treasurer for a small publishing company. I converted our books from a co...

The bottleneck of the computer age is not compute, but ideas for how to use it. The post Post-Scarcity Leads to Techn...

As artificial intelligence has advanced, it has taken the place of climate change as the main perceived threat to our...

America possesses more capital than any other nation in history and the most compute demand in the world. It is still...

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...

Hey folks, Fireside this week, as I am fresh back from a short family trip before the jaws of the Fall semester close...

This is the second half of the fourth part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series lay...

This is the fourth part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general gui...