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How the Berlin Wall Worked: The Engineering & Structural Design of the Wall That Formidably Divided East & West
More than thirty years after the formal dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, few...
Exploring My Journey: A Software Engineer in Constant Evolution
Geolffrey Mena is a 35-year-old software engineer currently based in Nicaragua. He is passionate about understanding...
LXer: Atuin: A Modern Shell History on Steroids (Installation + Usage)
Published at LXer: Atuin is a modern shell history CLI utility that stores data in the...
Neanderthals have more in common with modern humans than we think
Research has shown that Neanderthal and modern humans organised their living spaces similarly. “Like Homo sapiens,...
Robert Whaples reviews *GOAT* - Marginal REVOLUTION
An excellent piece, here is one excerpt I enjoyed in particular: Cowen reads the John Maynard...
'You better not throw like that in a mud ball fight kid!'
"The invention of the dunk tank clown shows just how far the line of what is...
The $20 bill gets picked up, body parts markets in everything - Marginal REVOLUTION
At the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte’s final battle, more than 10,000 men and as...
Dinosaurs break 200-year-old Bergmann's rule of zoology
A new analysis of the fossil record shows that dinosaurs bucked an ecological trend known as...
Cultivating Minds: The Psychological Consequences of Rice versus Wheat Farming - Marginal REVOLUTION
It’s long been argued that the means of production influence social, cultural and psychological processes. Rice...
How Was the Great Pyramid Built?; What Did the Ancient Egyptian Language Sound Like?; Were There Bars in Ancient Egypt?: An Egyptologist Answers These Questions & More from Internet Users
What did ancient Egyptians sound like? What did they eat and drink? What ancient Egyptian medicine...
Museum removes Egyptian body parts from galleries
From University of Sydney news Unwrapped ancient Egyptian mummified body parts will be returned to the...
When a Medieval Monk Crowdsourced the Most Accurate Map of the World, Creating “the Google Earth of the 1450s”
If we want to know the precise geographical location of, say, a particular church in Madrid,...
You might have missed: red flags; 300,000 years-old spears; robotic cameras; and plastic-free vegan leather
New privacy-preserving robotic cameras Appliances with in-built cameras are becoming increasingly common in homes and workplaces....
ὀφειλήματα are not transgressions but debts
One does not need to be a scholar of late antiquity to notice how often Jesus...
A History of Source Control Systems: SCCS and RCS
Source Control Management (SCM) Systems, have a long and rich history. As the systems evolved, so...
Hatstorian
The Hat Historian provides short histories of various hats in English (et en français,) from the...
Scientists construct new tree of life for modern birds
The largest and most complete study of modern bird genomes to date has resulted in the...
Earliest evidence of loss of seasonal egg laying in chickens
While some of us are still asking “why did the chicken cross the road?” an international...
Download 9,200+ Free Films from the Prelinger Archives: Documentaries, Cartoons & More
Depending on how you reckon it, the “American century” has already ended, is now drawing to...
Marty wanted to get every movie there ever was, we recorded everything
The collection is also a physical manifestation of his famously omnivorous appetite for visual media. Scorsese...
Is America Declining Like Ancient Rome?
Pursued to any depth, the question of whether the United States of America counts as an...
no history in ungoogled chromium
I press CTRL+H and all that's there is, "Your browsing history appears here." I can't find...
