Posts tagged with History

Copyright ends, creativity begins. Dickinson’s Further Poems is now public—learn the story of feuds, fame, and freedom in...

Some of the weirdest, funniest, and most incredible events from military history....

Popular rhetoric from the likes of Yuval Noah Harari fails us in our most weary and desperate hour....

How Yuval Harari’s “Useless Classes” of the future should learn a lesson from a secretive group of 1800s vandals....

From the anarchist Knight Sir Herbert Read, to modern psychology, I stab at the heart of our systemic problems with the knife of curiosity....

Insurers should have to bend over backwards to court you....

How can a deeper view of time save us from disaster?...

The whole thing started when an inventor named Joe Woodland sketched Morse Code in the sandy shore of a beach...

So why is this most effective transportation technology not used more in the United States?...

It’s also the way we save democracy Did you know that UBI was almost signed into law in the ‘60s? This is an idea whose time as most certainly come. The question is: do we have enough democracy left to make it happen?...

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”  ― Frederick Douglass Learning from past revolutions in information literacy, can we develop a model that suits the 21st century?...