Unenumerated

When we currently use a smart phone or a laptop on a cell network or the Internet, the other end of these interactions typically run on othe...

After about 1000 AD northwestern Europe started a gradual switch from using oxen to using horses for farm traction and transportation.  This...

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Stephen Broadberry describes new estimates of per capita GDP which say that the economic divergence between Western Europe and other civili...

In most political theories and ideologies, there is a preposterous oversimplification about what kinds of political relationships are desira...

Perhaps the most underrated invention in history is the humble hourglass.  Invented in Europe during the late 13th or early 14th century, th...

In my last post I introduced dead reckoning as used during the exploration explosion. In this post I will describe the errors these explore...

Navigation is the art or science of combining information and reducing error to keep oneself on, or return oneself to, a route that will ge...

Argument from authority ("I'm the expert") goes hand-in-hand with the ad hominem ("you're not"). Each may be re...

G.K. Chesterton ponders a fence: In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple princip...

From Algorithmic Information Theory: Charles Bennett has discovered an objective measurement for sophistication. An example of sophisticatio...