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Some different ways to try to wrap your head around history. Famous people by birth decade, going back to 580 BC: (thread) Visual lifespans: Visuals can help us get a

Around the early 1800s there were 128 random strangers on Earth, each of whose genes makes up 1/128 of you. Some prob. knew each other and had no idea they'd

When a system is flawed, the easy, lazy solution is to destroy the whole system. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater takes no skill, education, or savvy, and it

2 kinds of intellectual culture:Idea Lab: a safe space for people, a dangerous space for ideas.Echo Chamber: a safe space for a sacred set of ideas and people who express