How did trade and economic activity evolve at the End of Antiquity, when political power shifts away from the Mediterranean towards the Middle East and northern Europe? No records of ancient production, consumption, and trade exist. Yet the composition of coin finds reveals information about monetiz...
An old playbook is back for the deepfake era. Is it working?
In defense of the dilettante. Unfairly dismissed as a dabbler, he is in fact a tonic for our overspecialized world
"Oh comforting solitude, how favorable thou art to original thought!"
Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents
Almost half of Ireland’s corporation tax haul comes from just three companies: Apple, Eli Lilly and Microsoft. Here is m…
I knew that my post on Anthropic would draw strong reactions, when I made it public last week. I did mention in the cour…
How geography shaped the country we know today (in 7 maps)
They are true
Jon Ralston on the midterms and how to make better decisions in the political arena
Richard Borcherds and Eric Weinstein on AI and mathematics
In a recent video, Kurzgesagt explores what we know about the first human civilizations that formed some 12,000 years ago and how they led to the first cities and the invention of writing. What we know about human history is only a fraction of the full story. Much of the rest is like dark matter, in...
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