Subtype and topic
Essays & articles about History & humanities
Every link here is both an essay or article and about history & humanities.
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IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle
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Chesterton's Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking
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English is weirdly different from other languages
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The Missing 11th of the Month (2015)
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Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science (2011)
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Five Laws of Human Stupidity (1976)
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Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
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What If You Could Do It All Over?
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Is There Anything Good About Men?
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Stoicism: Indifference is a power
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New approaches shed light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality
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Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)
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Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (2015)
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Daisugi, the 600-year-old Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees
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In 1980s Los Angeles, a bank was robbed every hour (2019)
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The enduring mystery of ‘Jawn,’ Philadelphia’s all-purpose noun (2016)
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The vanished grandeur of accounting
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"How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" – Philip K Dick
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Why no Roman industrial revolution?
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Color or Fruit? The Unlikely Etymology of “Orange”
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Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps
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The great medieval water myth (2013)
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Haters
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What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos
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We Are All Confident Idiots (2014)
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A forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the north-eastern Black Sea coast (2015)
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Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
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Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine
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Who smeared Richard Feynman?
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How to Be a Stoic (2016)
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Men Are Better at Maps Until Women Take This Course
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Steve Jobs and the Usable Computer (6 October 2011 by Tim Berners-Lee)
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Lee Ross and the “Fundamental Attribution Error”
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France’s Zone Rouge – A Forbidden No Man’s Land Poisoned by War (2015)
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