Just seeing whether LJ cares whether I break Russian law.

Throw me in jail, Putin!

"If you strip out the perception of progress from history, what is left?"

Since 50,000 years ago, more than 108 billion members of our species have ever been born.

Assume each human lived an average of 30 years, and that's over 3 trillion years of lived humanity.

How do we boil down that immense expanse of human experiences into a history of the human race? For Christmas, Tod bought me such a book -- Sapiens: A Brief ( Read more... )