http://www.economist.com/blogs/erasmus/2016/07/ottoman-caliphs?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/ ( Read more... )

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I have always liked this guy's stuff.

http://www.disinfo.com/2012/11/the-global-awakening/

12/21/12 is nigh. love me a good millineum.
Currently a huge change in human consciousness is undeniably underway. In terms of the number of people effected its scale is unprecedented. Its most obvious cause is ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/magazine/from-bible-belt-pastor-to-atheist-leader.html

Because they started out as fervent Christians, unlike Dawkins and Hitchens and company, Phelps and DeWitt are seen as heroes within the ( Read more... )

http://www.orbitbooks.net/2312/

terraformation of asteroids, in this bit.

http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/68082/so-what-did-muslims-do-jews

Political change was partnered by change in the legal status of the Jewish population: although it is not always clear what happened during the Muslim ( Read more... )

http://www.alternet.org/economy/155456/capitalism_has_failed:_5_bold_ways_to_build_a_new_world/?page=entireRead more... )

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120504110504.htm

The idea for the dog project came to Berns about a year ago, when he learned that a U.S. Navy dog had been a member of the SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden. "I was amazed when I saw the ( Read more... )

http://www.zillow.com/visuals/negative-equity/

map of the places where people owe more on their homes than the homes are worth. scary.

http://asterank.com/

Asteroid mining has been in the news recently. Companies like Planetary Resources are an exciting take on the commercial viability of space industry. But how realistic are the trillion dollar estimates? How much would it cost to mine an object millions of miles away ( Read more... )