Blogs tagged "history"

One of the greatest affronts suffered by the Roman legions took place in 321 BC, after the Battle of the Caudine Fork...

A team of French and Turkish researchers has published an exhaustive analysis of twelve obsidian arrowheads with inte...

The more than 50,000 pottery fragments found at the Hüde I site, on Lake Dümmer (Lower Saxony, Germany), are providin...

Yesterday's post mentioned that the Franks fell into civil war and became less of a threat to Lombardy. The Frankish ...

There was a period in the history of the Kingdom of Lombardy when they had no king. Two kings in a row had been murde...

The past few days have been filled with discussion about the Lombards, aka the Langobards, and their origin according...

Fox Business reported on August 9, 2026, that Burger King surpassed Wendy’s as the (distant) second largest burger ch...

I came across a New York Post opinion column by Lydia Moynihan titled The Gwyneth Paltrow AI controversy only hurts w...

I came across a short post on @iamgregb (I assume by Greg B) titled “Like Them, but Better.” It’s Not. In the post, h...

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.

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...

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

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

For millennia, myths and philosophy warned of tools entrapping us in tragedies of our own making. But the discovery o...

The Iran crisis cannot be resolved without recognizing Iran’s unexpected military and technological edge. Victories c...

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 final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va, Vb) of our apparently five-part series lay...

Hey folks, fireside this week as I get ready for the start of a new semester! For this week, I wanted to talk briefly...

This is the first half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va) of our apparently five-part series laying o...