#Civilization

Kim O'Connor

shallowbrigade

I just finished a project on Ray Bradbury and it's fascinating how, from Neil Gaiman to Gary Groth, every single comics guy's terrible opinions on "censorship" emulates Bradbury’s exactly. What

Paul Anleitner

PaulAnleitner

This is a really interesting meme on multiple levels.1) The historical reality is that the U.S. is neither Superman or Homelander.2) Is history told from the perspective of the victor

Daniel T. Foster

Weerd1

One more Nerdy Positivity thread.FIVE FANTASTIC THINGS ABOUT EACH MODERN INCARNATION OF #DOCTORWHO: NINTH DOCTOR-Terrific Dancer-Good taste in companions even if his companion's taste in companions was occasionally off-Not afraid

Śrīkānta

shrikanth_krish

Just listened to a podcast on Covid with @teasri and @balajis where @balajis used the term - "Civilizational vaccination"A fascinating termWhere a civilization remembers a historical catastrophe so well, that

Billi 🧡

SanghiNextDoor

For long we have brushed off our own rituals, visiting temples and teaching our children about Hindu principles as something not so important. At that time our myopic selves could

Adamu Garba II

adamugarba

Remember the TELL-ALL Thread about the Origins of the Fulani living in Africa and Nigeria for over 4700 years? Here now is the TELL-ALL about the origin of the Fulani.

babar

BabarBaAishKosh

Thread: There's never a single reason for the downfall of a civilization, it is always a plethora of factors that bring its eventual demise.But if I have to choose the

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

5/19By 1500 BC, the first Veda had been written. This was the first written record of a civilization's practices, both religious and otherwise. Here we find references to plenty of

Trevor Culley

HistoryofPersia

Well they did a good job of distilling all of the worst takes about that war into one article I guess. Some highlights:"Had this happened, there might have been no...

Aabhas Maldahiyar 🇮🇳

Aabhas24

1/n #SadarPranam to Ishvara within you @tjoseph0010 ji.I'm sorry to say but this dig of you at @NileshOak , in regards to time-period of Indian Civilization is highly unscientific. Here

Phil Torres

xriskology

Here's something that worries me greatly about the legacy of the current pandemic.This was not a black swan event. Rather, it was a "gray rhino," or a high-probability, high-impact event

Bob For Apples Lannon

BobLannon

watching You've Got Mail for the first time. the libs really had it all in 98 there are two ad integrations within the first ten minutes and they're both central

Frank Pasquale

FrankPasquale

I'm always grateful for David's references--he's an encyclopedic source on the philosophy of AI & robotics. I just want to note how this angle may fuel important philosophical debates, but

Michael Shellenberger

ShellenbergerMD

Germany’s renewables experiment is over. By 2025 it will have spent $580B to make electricity nearly 2x more expensive & 10x more carbon-intensive than France’s. The reason renewables can’t power

Flute Person

ComradeFlute

“Fascism is when the violence that the imperialist nations have visited upon the world over the course of the development of the modern, parasitic capitalist world-system comes back home to

Kansara

kansaratva

Taliberal: Anyone who believes that terrorism has no religion.Found all over the world, especially after a terrorist attack by vans, trucks, planes, knives, stones, or other such self-aware, self-driven contraptions.