Blogs tagged "history"

The Belgrade Fortress, located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, has witnessed more than two millennia...

For decades, archaeologists have debated whether the paintings and engravings our ancestors left on cave walls were m...

The dense tangle of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, in the state of Campeche, has guarded one of its best-preserved s...

What did medieval people think about different races? How did they distinguish one ethnic group from another? This qu...

Although Charlemagne is a famous name, and we know a lot about him, his descendants and the events of the Carolingian...

In Saint-Omer in France there was a Benedictine abbey called the Abbey of St. Bertin, founded in 638 and existing rig...

It has been five days since the last edition of Pook-Emu Bee links. While I ordinarily publish links in the morning a...

I look forward to reading Pixy Misa’s Daily News Stuff posts (seven days a week), which feature links to tech and pol...

Back in The New Leaf Journal’s early days, I had share buttons on my articles. I eventually removed them in part beca...

Arguably the first work of fiction to feature a *Tyrannosaurus rex*, Louis Pope Gratacap’s *The New Northland* (1915)...

69 images of kite flying from across 5 centuries and some 10 countries.

Paintings from an era when Venetians brawled on bridges.

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...

While the study of textbooks has proven fruitful in the study of the history of mathematics, there has been little at...

Robotic warfare is shifting the source of state power away from citizens to firms. The transition will produce a new ...

Recently, the Vatican and Anthropic have shown a united front on artificial intelligence. But are they actually align...

Scientific institutions are struggling to survive under a mountain of publications and poor standards of peer review....

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 is the second half of the second part (I, IIa, IIb) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out so...

This is the second part (I, IIa) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines fo...

This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, ...