Blogs tagged "history"

The Egyptian archaeological mission under the authority of the Supreme Council of Antiquities has brought to light, d...

Researchers from the University of Catania, in collaboration with the Archaeological Park of Catania and the Valley o...

The research, published in the journal Science, was led by Richard F. Kay, emeritus professor of Evolutionary Anthrop...

When Henry Bolingbroke decided in 1399 to return from exile in France and force his cousin, King Richard II, to retur...

After the Trial by Combat affair in 1398 between Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray (which was supposed to be to th...

Henry Bolingbroke and his cousin, Richard, were childhood friends, but when they were older Henry became one of the L...

I am a bit late today, but I decided to keep the Pook-Emu Bee links running with four in a row before our off-day tom...

I learned today that manga publisher Shueisha is making apppproximately 400 manga series free in 100 languages for a ...

Is it safe to say the daily Pook-Emu Bee links are “daily” again with three posts in a row? 1 – Video Game Accounts C...

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

The People’s Republic of China hopes to turn the open ocean into the world’s largest farm. It might not be a bad idea...

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

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

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...