Blogs tagged "history"

Ancient civilizations around the world developed sophisticated systems of astronomical calculation, but while in Gree...

The secondary agglomeration of Allonnes, located at the crossroads of several major communication routes in the Frenc...

Roman concrete has defied the passage of time for nearly two millennia. Ports, aqueducts, markets, and entire buildin...

After 1066 there was more fighting to do. Once William the Conqueror took over England, he had to go about the island...

In the pipe rolls (the records of royal finances in Medieval England) for 1166 is a mention of £616 12s 8d owed to Aa...

The Exchequer of the Jews was created in 1194 by King Richard I of England in order to keep track of all records of d...

Writing for The Pudding, Russell Samora recently put together a list of the “most ethical” NBA champions, wherein he ...

Two consecutive editions of Pook-Emu Bee daily links? What in the world is going on here? 1. Sega Dreamcast driver fi...

I read a blog post on Schemascape titled Using the Xteink X4, a minimalist e-reader. I have one, and I will have ever...

Circular maps custom-made for the fire towers that once dotted the American wilderness.

Pompous know-it-alls were once a mainstay of mockery on the Italian stage. Arnoud Visser investigates this stock char...

Cover designs for José Carlos Mariátegui’s radical Lima-based magazine.

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...

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...

Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’ve been a bit behind because we had some family travel followed by an issue with a w...

Hello again all. It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s po...

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