The Fullbright Paradox: The Fulbright Paradox Race and the Road to a New American Internationalism (should be the paywall free link) , published in Foreign Affairs, is far more than the promised retrospective of J. William Fullbright’s career and how i…
36,000 gigatons of carbon heralded history’s biggest mass extinction
New insights into the end-Permian mass extinction 252 million years ago.
Brutes
Amitav Ghosh’s meditations on the myth of the voiceless.
It’s all in the ink: Vinland Map is definitely a fake, new analysis finds
“There is no reasonable doubt here. This new analysis should put the matter to rest.”
Digital Light
Meet the Little-Known Genius Who Helped Make Pixar Possible [ungated] – “Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs. Now he’s got a vision for where the pixel will take us next.”[1,2,3] Pixel is…
The Dollar Store Jamie Lannister
Confederate DESTROYS Yankee with FACTS and LOGIC (6:37) Atun-Shei Films (an invented name) has a particular interest in early American history, especially that of New England and (current home) New Orleans. (The Racist-O-Meter is recycled from Were the…
One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia
Coffman knows the book is legit, because she happens to have a copy on loan from the library. When she goes to the cited page, she finds a paragraph that appears to confirm all the Wikipedia article’s wild claims. But then she reads the first sentence …
Porno Hustlers Of The Atari Age
While doing research for Video Dames, a video documentary series on female protagonists in video games, Kotaku writer Kate Willaert found an article that would lead her into a rabbit hole of excess and outrageousness – resulting in her creating a histo…
Constructed Worlds, Group Beliefs and Narrative Consciousness
Three Simple Policy Heuristics – “The most important thing to understand is this: Harm ripples, kindness ripples. People you hurt go on to hurt other people. People who are treated with kindness become better people, or more prosperous people, and go o…
Fun with place name patterns
Peer into the Europe’s past by looking at place names, for example to see the range of Roman conquest of Britain or the historical borders of Poland and Silesia.