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6 Aug 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Nihilsum
I am appalled by the near-complete failure of public education in America with regard to history. As a historian, I am in contact with college students every day who have been massively let down by their history "educators", who more often than not a...
5 Aug 2023 2 minute read 2 comments Debesh Choudhury
The universe is nothing without stories. History tells about the universe, the planet Earth, and many other things around the living kingdom. When we talk to each other, we perceive stories. The power remains in the analyses of a story - how so...
4 Aug 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Rorschach's Journal
Perhaps, if you didn't commit grammatical/syntactic and social errors, life would go easier for you ... #JustSaying Some Schmuck, commenting on what is clearly an electromechanical (or later) device: Oh, Ada Lovelace! I know her. Me: The woman in qu...
30 Jul 2023 5 minute read 2 comments Investigator515
It took a while for bad actors to come on to the scene. While malware and other scams are all but accepted as part of the modern world, it hasn’t always been this way. In the early days of the internet, before smartphones proliferated it was a much c...
30 Jul 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic
Yesterday I went with my girlfriend to the Toy Museum in Stockholm. Here are some notes and take-offs: - The museum is placed on the island of Skeppsholmen in a former naval military base underground facility. - The museum mainly has toys used duri...
28 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments hebrew
Welcome to my Hebrew reading & language series. Genesis 42:6-11 "Joseph" the movie at 2:27:00+ Last week we read that Jacob, also known as Israel, sent ten of his sons to Mitsraim (Egypt) to buy food. They have now arrived and our story tel...
24 Jul 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
Replacing copper with fiber optic cable supercharged our capabilities. In our last What the Tech?! on satellite linking, while we felt we covered the brief on linking, there was some interesting statistics in regards to just how big a leap forward...
23 Jul 2023 10 minute read 6 comments YouveBeenGreeked
The events of the Greek world up to the early fifth century BC - namely the rise of Persia, the birth of Athenian democracy and the Greco-Persian Wars - are among the most well-documented and renowned in ancient history. History itself as a topic is...
20 Jul 2023 1 minute read 2 comments RomulusNRemus
The Coliseum. The Pantheon. Diocletian's Palace. These are the more famous parts of the former Roman Empire scattered across the globe. I would like to add another to the list, Hadrian's Wall. Hadrian: Built in AD 122 during the reign of Empero...
18 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor
Another one of Allen's and Theresa's most popular travel videos is Conway, South Carolina, Part 1. I find it interesting that Part 2 hasn't received anywhere near the number of views that Part 1 received. But Part 1 is among our Top 10 most watched v...
