Thucydides’ account of war is as timely as it is misunderstood | Aeon Essays
Aeonby David Polansky & Daniel Schillinger21d ago
Listen to this essay 22 minute listen It’s almost never a good sign when Thucydides is in the news.
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The Marginalianby Maria Popova22d ago
The Grasshopper and the “Lusory Attitude” Essential for Playing the Game of Life By Maria Popova On a recent flight, I watched a mother across the aisle play peek-a-boo with her small son while...
Learn Psychology For Free
Psychology Blog23d ago
The reason that you can now learn university taught psychology for free is that an increasing number of psychology lecturers and academic institutions are disseminating their ideas, research...
No apologies, no freebies: the man who makes Andy Burnham’s jackets on how to weather a storm
Fashion | The Guardianby Chloe Mac Donnell24d ago
It has not yet been two weeks since James Eden, the founder of the Manchester men’s clothier Private White VC, saw one of his best-known customers move in to No 10 Downing Street.
Post-Scarcity Leads to Technological Stagnation
Palladium Magazineby Charles Rosenbauer24d ago
For less than a thousand dollars, a modern consumer laptop may be capable of trillions of calculations per second. But consumers’ applications of this hardware are often disappointing.
AI Has Entered The ‘Loss Of Control’ Transition | NOEMA
Noema Magazineby Nathan Gardels24d ago
Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute.
Frontier Panic
Palladium Magazineby Stephanie Wakefield25d ago
Earlier this month, an unreleased OpenAI model in internal evaluations hacked its way out of secure OpenAI servers and attacked the hosting platform Hugging Face, just to steal the answer key to...
The Rise & Fall Of Liberal Democracy’s Shared Fiction | NOEMA
Noema Magazineby Macario Schettino25d ago
Macario Schettino is professor emeritus at Tec de Monterrey and a well-known author in Mexico who writes about history, politics and economics.
Social Psychology Information and Resources
Psychology Blog25d ago
David Webb (Owner, writer & host of All-About-Psychology.Com) "Social psychology is a science that studies the influences of our situations, with special attention to how we view and affect one...
Personality Psychology Information and Resources
Psychology Blog25d ago
"The ultimate goal of personality psychology is to construct a scientifically credible account of psychological individuality.
Developmental Psychology Information and Resources
Psychology Blog25d ago
David Webb (Owner, writer & host of All-About-Psychology.Com) "Developmental psychology can be defined as the discipline that attempts to describe and explain the changes that occur over time in...
The History of Sweden’s Colonial Empire | History is Now
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine26d ago
The Swedish colonial empire is not often discussed in the context of European colonialism; however, the powerful country of Sweden did hold territories across the Americas, Africa, and Asia.
Bangladesh’s Islamist resurgence threatens women’s rights
Himal Southasianby Nawshin Flora26d ago
Bangladesh’s Islamist extremist resurgence has feminists raising the alarm As right-wing Islamist extremist groups gain in Bangladesh, feminists are fighting for women’s rights and gender equality...
By his fruits shall we know him? • Robert Phiddian
Inside Storyby Administrator27d ago
Anyone who tells you religion and politics don’t mix is either a fool or a knave. J.D. Vance is nobody’s fool.
Read_948 – The Battle for Monetary Independence
Bitcoin Audibleby Guy Swann27d ago
“Your savings represent hours you worked, risks you accepted, businesses you built, time spent away from people you love, and consumption you postponed for the sake of the future.
Growing Mutant Bacteria To Save Earth | NOEMA
Noema Magazineby Matthew Ponsford27d ago
Matthew Ponsford is a London-based writer and researcher. BARCELONA, Spain — The microbes have assembled themselves into the rough shape of an open hand, reaching out from fluid at the bottom of...
Attention Is All I “Have”
iHack, therefore iBlogby Dr. Ernie28d ago
The Self as Attentional Architecture Abstract We propose a radical simplification of agency by exploring an attention-based architecture for subjective experience.
The great divide • Inside Story
Inside Storyby Administrator29d ago
At the end of Australia Fair?, James Walter and Carolyn Holbrook’s monumental, sprawling and somewhat disheartening history of social policy in Australia over the past eighty years, we are left...
There Is No Life That Cannot Be Successfully Prosecuted From the Right Angle
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty29d ago
My mother does not understand adventure. This is not entirely true. She understands adventure as an abstract category, the way I understand the concept of debt: I accept that it exists, but I would...
What is it about The West of America? The Importance of the West in America | History is Now
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine25 Jul 2026
What is it about the west? Why is country music listened to in every corner, region, city, small town, and house across the United States?