#Civilization

Joe Bassey

Joe__Bassey

African Moors who introduced learning and civilization in Spain._The Moors began invading Spain around 711 AD when an African army, under leader Tariq ibn-Ziyad, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from

Giorgos Kallis

g_kallis

He used this premise of scarcity to argue against redistributive policies. Unless the poor stay hungry, Malthus argued, they wont work hard to produce more. And unless food production grows,

Austin

realUnnameable

Atlantis - Mu - Lemuria thread: Through much of history we have seen multiple examples of a lost seafaring civilizations. Is there anything to these legends? We will examine some

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namujjinie

Kim Seokjin as the son of Gods, Goddesses, Mythologycal Creatures Hades - God of the Dead and King of the Underworld Persephone - Goddess of spring, flowers and the Queen

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saffron_yoda

Some people underestimate the fragility of our "modern" society.The scientific progress that has been made so far, can be lost irrevocably to war and chaos.Science is an objective truth. But

Tommi Forsström (H-1B immigrant)

forssto

One trap good PMs still fall into is building business cases around transactional ROI by default - "Put $1 in, get $2 back". That's almost never the case.Let's look at

Nicholas Paul Brysiewicz

nicholaspaul26

The Social Dilemma is out on Netflix now. @tristanharris and @aza and @noUpside (and more) have done an excellent job presenting what is probably the technological dilemma of our generation.

Captain Melonhead

CMelonhead

I found this picture - it's supposed to depict the headquarters of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, who as Field Marshal commanded the Russian army of the Danube in the Russo-Turkish

Hindu Parenting

Indic_Angle

Two decades after modern gated communities made their appearance in urban India,we are seeing deleterious effects all around us,especially on kidsFor a country whose 'elite' has never started decolonisation, this

Joe Bassey

Joe__Bassey

The excavations at the Malian city of Gao carried out by Cambridge University revealed glass windows. One of the findings was entitled: “Fragments of alabaster window surrounds and a piece

Jack Butcher

jackbutcher

This is your brain on visuals: (thread) The speed at which our brain processes images is at least 15.6x faster than text (according to MIT)Science aside for a minute, the

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ccccaa13

You must recreate the forest in your home: it is a temple to yourself; and thus, a temple to your perception- a gallery. You must tune your palate to the

vivian

uiuianvs

when the conquistadors led by francisco pizarro first encountered the incas, they were greeted as gods, "virachochas", because their lighter skin and beards resembled that of a divine race of

ContrarianWarBlog

ContraWarBlog

Actually, here, Gurdjieff is more to the point. Periodically, civilizations undergo self-destruction because the people are unable to handle with responsibility all that they've created. With the underlying fuel to

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nimalan

Macron sounds like when two white guys talk about brown people in private.https://twitter.com/jshahryar/status/1322776774413963270 Apart from the casual racism, they betray an amateur understanding of history, and as already mentioned, fail

Warren Pearce

WarrenPearce

Watching Lockdown 1.0 now on BBC2, looks to be shedding some new light on scientific advice and how it informed policy. Highlighting how NERVTAG identified the risk as 'low' in

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