Poetry
Emily Dickinson's Poems Become Public Domain
Copyright ends, creativity begins. Dickinson’s Further Poems is now public—learn the story of feuds, fame, and freedom in art. When Emily Dickinson died in 188
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History
The past as evidence: Dickinson's copyright saga, military oddities, and the 19th-century roots of today's problems.
Listicle
Unbelievable Historical Military Facts
Some of the weirdest, funniest, and most incredible events from military history.
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History
Authoritarian Algorithms: Deconstructing Myths of the Future
Popular rhetoric from the likes of Yuval Noah Harari fails us in our most weary and desperate hour.
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Technology
Oh, Ye of Useless Class, Beware!
How Yuval Harari’s “Useless Classes” of the future should learn a lesson from a secretive group of 1800s vandals.
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Anarchism
Our Flabby and Inchoate World: A Jungian Glimpse Into Why Things Suck
From the anarchist Knight Sir Herbert Read, to modern psychology, I stab at the heart of our systemic problems with the knife of curiosity.
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History
How the Barcode Was Born
The whole thing started when an inventor named Joe Woodland sketched Morse Code in the sandy shore of a beach
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History
Trains Are Awesome
So why is this most effective transportation technology not used more in the United States?
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Economics
Universal Income is a Right
It’s also the way we save democracy Did you know that UBI was almost signed into law in the ‘60s? This is an idea whose time as most certainly come. The question is: do we have enough democracy left to make it happen?
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History
The Cigarmakers of Cuba and the New Information Revolution
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” ― Frederick Douglass Learning from past revolutions in information literacy, can we develop a model that suits the 21st century?
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