#Historical

The price of software is racing to zero. When I wrote the blog post "Software below the poverty line", I showed open source projects are earning less than industry average.
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How different perspectives can be. To me, Finland is surfing the waves of new tech very well. This is also the view of various institutions that praise Finland for rapid
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"I feel like there have been several chapters to my career...in 7 year blocks." She looked for "the marching band" after publication of her first PB, but has since realized
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My first Kindle purchase - Helen Macdonald’s meditative memoir 'H is for Hawk'..http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/grief-is-a-thing-with-feathers/ Now reading 'Family Life' by Akhil Sharma chronicling an Indian immigrant
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#Juneteenth marks the day enslaved African Americans in Galveston Bay, Texas, were notified of their freedom. It's celebrated as the end of U.S. chattel slavery and our nation's second
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With the news of Purdue and the criminal charges against them in regards to Oxycontin and the opioid crisis. I think this article written by @headdock and @dr4liberty is very
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Very happy to have been invited to contribute to the second issue of @WorksInProgMag. Most of my adult life I've been interested in what counts as progress in different walks
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At @EurasiaNet we have been covering this conflict for long before this week. If you are trying to study up on the conflict, here are some of our pieces from
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I just finished a long day at work & was fasting,so I am tired & don’t have the energy for a long twitter brouhaha with AfriForum’s supporters. I am bemused
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Since EV is a big topic, I want to point out something. We don't have a national election. We have 50 state elections. There are reasons people vote a certain
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If 2020 ends up as a new record warm year, and it might, then a significant component of that will have been the incredibly warm start of the year that
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some clown somehow decided that the term "shounen ai" (literally translated: boys love) was coined by people in the west that don't know what it means and that it has
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Everyday Muslim has three archive collections which reveal the very British experiences and memories of a diverse Muslim community from the late 1800s to the present-day. A historical narrative evidently
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Can we talk about one particular part from this exceptional piece of journalism by @kbeccaandrews? (Thread)https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/racism-university-mississippi-nickname-ole-miss-confederate-history-elma-meeks/ Our Chan
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The BBC's decision to drop the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia!" at the Last Night Of The Proms has become the latest controversy in the year of the #BlackLivesMatter protests.
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I wanted to write a reported piece on hennessy because I was curious about how a French cognac rose to such prominence in the Black community. Hennessy is universally loved
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