Blogs tagged "history"

Long ago, the patch of sky that would become our galactic neighbourhood looked nothing like a galaxy. It was a collec...

Proposed dates for the arrival of the first humans in the Americas span more than 100,000 years. At one end sits Ceru...

A few inches below the forest floor in the eastern Taunus hills lies a stretch of the Roman frontier that has barely ...

If the Iranian Empire under the Sassanian Emperor Khosrow I (531 - 579) had an official religion, it would be Zoroast...

Although the youngest of four sons and not truly expected to ever become king, Khosrow I (531 - 579) received an exte...

The Emperor of Iran, Khosrow I (531 - 579) was not just a leader who wanted to go to war with the Byzantines. He want...

I mailed the 300th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal earlier this afternoon. I launched the newsletter back in J...

On October 1, 2026, I (being N.A. Ferrell) published a new article on The New Leaf Journal titled 86 Days Until Chris...

October begins two-for-two with Pook-Emu Bee Links before our regularly scheduled Saturday off-day for the Newsletter...

Erasmus called them “little moons” and George Puttenham praised them as “figures of tolerable disorder” (if used not ...

Choice excerpts from *Leaves of Grass* that speak to Whitman’s conception of immortality.

Early surgical diagrams that present patients prying themselves open for our anatomical gaze.

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...

Artificial intelligence offers a reflection of our selves, yet something vital is missing from the picture. The post ...

Ignoring the intangible value of private governance of firms not only makes wealth taxes confiscatory but erodes the ...

The English country estate bound each generation to the land and to relationships that endured for centuries, sculpti...

PERHAPS SILICON VALLEY'S BRIGHTEST have miscalculated.  I suspect those leading and investing in the AI labs have und...

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...

This is the first half of the third part (I, II) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Int...

Hey, folks, Fireside this week! We’re now well into the Teaching Paradox series on Hearts of Iron, but as you may hav...

This is the second part (I) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War ...