Category: History
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Tutankhamun: Pharaoh of the stars… [An account on the de-evolution of leadership]
Tutankhamun had an iron weapon thousands of year before the official “Iron Age” of Egypt. The known pharaoh’s iron dagger blade seems to have a meteoritic origin, according to a more recent study. (1 ,2) Modern leaders like holding money and earthly power. Old leaders liked holding heavenly power. Old leaders liked holding (literally) the…
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Remembering history…
Americans recognize 'past presidents' who never were, study finds: among the names that many Americans mistakenly identify as belonging to a past president of the United States, finds a new study by memory researchers. [1] But what if we all remembered false facts as history? What if we all forgot true facts as history? Wouldn’t…
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The contribution of the Holy Inquisition to civilization (no it is not a joke)
This is a re-post of an article of Theodotus blog (translation posted here) To defend and justify the Holy Inquisition is the exact opposite of Political Correctness (PC). But as I have nothing to do with PC, I am happy to present the real history of this medieval institution. Even the biggest critic of the…
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Chromosomes. Pinocchio. Fairy Tales…
Men have one copy, women have two, but scientists have long puzzled over why the human X chromosome mostly contains genes that are active in a small number of tissues. Now, a team of researchers led by the University of Bath studying the evolution of this X chromosome has discovered why it contains such an…
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Against Enlightenment: The Enlightenment was not light. The Enlightenment is darkness.
Since as early as 17th century – the era of René Descartes and Benedict De Spinoza – opposition to the church and faith in “logic” was starting to be the new fashion. [1] Later on, in an era of revolutions during the 1789-1848 period, the reaction to the secular powers became synonym to reaction to…
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