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  • ‘One of a kind’ Egyptian tomb discovery revealed

    The tomb, found in the Saqqara pyramid complex near Cairo, is filled with colourful hieroglyphs and statues of pharaohs. Decorative scenes show the owner, a royal priest named Wahtye, with his mother, wife and other relatives. Archaeologists will start excavating… Continue reading

    ‘One of a kind’ Egyptian tomb discovery revealed

  • Star Wars and Technological Advancements unto Death

    It’s called Star Wars. Not Star Trek, not Star Peace, not Star Friends, not even Star Tales. This gargantuan fictional universe is labeled with a title that guarantees the ability to travel space… and near-constant warfare. We can debate the… Continue reading

    Star Wars and Technological Advancements unto Death

  • Escape From the Trump Cult

    Millions of Americans are blindly devoted to their Dear Leader. What will it take for them to snap out of it? …manipulating the media, Trump tore pages from the us-against-them playbook of the European far right and presented them to… Continue reading

    Escape From the Trump Cult

  • The “Yellow Vests” Show How Much the Ground Moves Under Our Feet

    About the only class of people who seem unable to grasp this new reality are intellectuals. Just as during Nuit Debout, many of the movement’s self-appointed “leadership” seemed unable or unwilling to accept the idea that horizontal forms of organization… Continue reading

    The “Yellow Vests” Show How Much the Ground Moves Under Our Feet

  • Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto’s Nouveau Riche

    Wow. Cyber capitalism fetishized to the point of apotheosis. It’s only my first day, but it’s clear this is not the Burning Man-style celebration of the liberatory potential of decentralization I was promised. This is a locked-room, hard-sell pitch session… Continue reading

    Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto’s Nouveau Riche

  • American Geographic Polarization

    Research shows that partisans aren’t purposefully walling themselves off. There is no intentional Big Sort. Such geographic polarization—where supporters of one or the other party cluster together in homogeneous enclaves, producing localities with lopsided distributions of political preferences—has been growing… Continue reading

  • ‘Do Not Track’ Privacy Tool Doesn’t Do Anything

    When you go into the privacy settings on your browser, there’s a little option there to turn on the “Do Not Track” function, which will send an invisible request on your behalf to all the websites you visit telling them… Continue reading

  • Unwashed Dishes Reveal the Diets of a Lost Civilization

    The potsherds yielded proteins from numerous plants—barley, wheat, peas and bitter vetch—as well as the blood and milk of several species of animal, including cows, sheep and goats. Of even greater interest to the researchers was the precision with which… Continue reading

  • Yet again, the right-wing appropriation of Nietzsche

     “The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.” –F. Nietzsche Nice overview of how Nietzsche gets misappropriated by urfascists and… Continue reading

  • Surprising Reason the Right Doesn’t Trust the News – POLITICO

    The top editor at the New York Times, A.M. Rosenthal, hit Agnewesque notes in a 1969 internal memo from which Pressman quotes:   I get the impression, reading the Times, that the image we give of America is largely of… Continue reading