History
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Under the Banner of Heaven
In They Call me Trinity, a comedy western starring Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, a group of Mormon pioneers is harassed by a languid, land-grabbing criminal…
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We Invented Ourselves
We invented ourselves. I contend this is our greatest invention. Neither fire, the wheel, steam power, nor anti-biotics or AI is the greatest invention of…
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Nuclear Nazis
In The Berlin Project, Gregory Benford, who is deservedly known for writing some of the best hard science fiction around, asks what would’ve happened if the…
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Coalescence: We are descendants of two human populations that merged 300,000 years ago
Coalescent theory is a population genetics approach to reconstructing the history of populations. This paper by Trevor Cousins, Aylwyn Scally and Richard Durbin applies an…
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Shaman: Kim Stanley Robinson’s paleolithic novel
Nothing remains of the millions of brilliant men and women who lived before we invented writing. A few cave paintings and some carved figurines are…
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Finite and Infinite Games
In this little book, James P. Carse argues that evil is the termination of possibilities, or as he calls it, of infinite play. Evil is…
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