Thursday, March 30, 2017

Predictions from the Clash of Civilizations: and Let's Start Promoting Liberal Democracy

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Aside from the lesson contained in its title, Samuel Huntington makes the worrisome (and probably true) prediction that religion will re-em...
Friday, March 24, 2017

Some Historical Analogies for This Point in American History

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Several of these analogies have been lucidly argued elsewhere, and I've provided relevant links. Whether history rhymes or repeats, the...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

The Chimpanzee Undead

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This account of a wild chimp troop in Senegal is curious. "The chimps...abused and cannibalized his body for nearly four hours...As...
Friday, February 3, 2017

Review of Journey to Fusang, and Some Problems with Alternate History

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This is cross-posted at Speculative Nonfiction . Added later: this account of Chinese settlers in Old West/Gold Rush era California read...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Making the Outdoors into a Status Game: Humans Are Weird, Volume # 178,822,941

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Cross-posted to MDK10 Outside . A friend of mine had lived in Philadelphia and Atlanta, and then moved to Olympia, Washington. She immed...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Have We Reached Peak Bowl?

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Cross-posted at the MDK10 Outside blog . This figure is from an earlier post about the bowl system . The reason for the expansion of th...
Friday, December 16, 2016

New Online Map-Building Tool

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Boy have I wished for exactly this tool many times: mapinseconds.com . Thanks developer! I haven't tried it yet so I can't endors...