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Inkwellâs recap feature is not exactly 100% accurate, but I think I like what it suggests!
Myles Badger: Every egregore works like this: when enough people invest enough effort in a shared symbolic system, that system will start to take on a life of its own and develop an internal logic that no single contributor can fully control. It will also begin to exert a pull beyond the efforts of those...
Even if you know nothing else about the historiography of the late Roman Empire, there is one work of scholarship on the subject that youâve probably heard of: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, which was originally published in six volumes from 1776 to 1789. At the time, it was ⊠Continue...
Sometimes Mother Nature stares back at you with a face of her own. Best not to look away.
Molly Haskell is awesome, obviously, and the premise of her From Reverence to Rape is pretty unassailable. Itâs also a product of the era before the internet and home video and the easy ability to check facts and memories. Even so, it may have more howling inaccuracies than any other major critical work, and itâs [âŠ]
Chris Iorfida, CBC News: A Canadian is fighting back in U.S. federal court over what he says is an attempt by the Department of Homeland Security, through Google, to seek âvast swaths of informationâ about his personal life following social media posts critical of Donald Trumpâs administration. [âŠ] On Jan. 30, the...
I recently asked people on Mastodon âWhatâs the most surprising fact youâve learned in the last couple of weeks?â It was a nice way to learn a lot of interesting things. My own biggest recent surprise was this: the number plays a fundamental role in number theory! For any irrational we define its Lagrange [âŠ]
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