QotD: The ambitious Roman’s path to glory and riches
The Romans, for one, admitted all the time that they screwed up … to themselves, in private (what passed for “private” in the ancient world, anyway). A big reason an ambitious man (a redundancy in...
View Article3 Chisel Mortise Method | Paul Sellers
Paul Sellers Published Jan 19, 2024 Sometimes, we avoid simple joinery because we believe it cannot be done well, and efficiently by hand. This mortise, 4″ long and 1 1/2″ deep by half an inch, took...
View ArticleDNA and India’s caste system
Earlier this month, Palladium published Razib Khan‘s look at the genetic components of India’s Caste System: Though the caste system dominates much of Indian life, it does not dominate Indian American...
View ArticleThe CDU’s “five-point plan to protect German democracy from … the free and...
German mainstream politicians are struggling to keep extreme right populist anti-democratic voices from being heard by innocent and trusting German voters, so the leader of the CDU in Thuringia has a...
View ArticleTikTok for Tots (and Instagram, and Facebook, and Twitter, and …)
Ted Gioia has some rather alarming information on just how many kids are spending a lot of time online from a very early age: The leader in this movement is TikTok. But the other major platforms...
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