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What History Tells Us about the Future of Artificial Intelligence – Part 3 of 3

Jul 29, 2023 | Ancient History, The Neolithic & Latter-Day Prehistory, Earliest Civilizations in Eurasia

This is the third of three posts on general purpose technologies and on what their history tells...

The Backflow into Africa

Sep 10, 2021 | The Neolithic & Latter-Day Prehistory, Earliest Civilizations in Eurasia

We all know Homo sapiens evolved in Africa and then spread across the rest of the world. But...

Coronavirus Would Not Have Disrupted Our Ancestors’ Lives

Mar 23, 2020 | Human Origins & the Paleolithic, The Neolithic & Latter-Day Prehistory, Earliest Civilizations in Eurasia, Classical Civilization, The Postclassical Age (Medieval History), The Early Modern Age, The Recent Modern Age

A virus circles the world, killing 1% of the population or more, particularly the elderly ... and...

My New Novel, Secrets of Hominea!

Jul 26, 2019 | Human Origins & the Paleolithic, The Neolithic & Latter-Day Prehistory, Australia, the Islands, & Further Africa before the Modern Age, The Early Modern Age, The Recent Modern Age

My new novel just went on sale! Secrets of Hominea is a magical middle grade fantasy novel: a tale...

The History of the World in Nineteen Minutes

Sep 6, 2017 | Human Origins & the Paleolithic, The Neolithic & Latter-Day Prehistory, Earliest Civilizations in Eurasia, Australia, the Islands, & Further Africa before the Modern Age, Pre-Columbian Americas, Classical Civilization, The Postclassical Age (Medieval History), The Early Modern Age, The Recent Modern Age

This is fun ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCn8ux2gbs

The History of Japan in Nine Minutes

Jun 26, 2017 | The Neolithic & Latter-Day Prehistory, Earliest Civilizations in Eurasia, Classical Civilization, The Postclassical Age (Medieval History), The Early Modern Age, The Recent Modern Age

This is fun ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5LY4Mz15o

Ancient Man-Made Global Warming and Environmental Engineering

Jan 4, 2016 | Human Origins & the Paleolithic, The Neolithic & Latter-Day Prehistory, Earliest Civilizations in Eurasia, Australia, the Islands, & Further Africa before the Modern Age, Pre-Columbian Americas, Geography

Many Americans doubt man-made global warming because they don't think humans could so...

Black Europeans, Short Spaniards, Tall Swedes, Milk, and Recent Human Evolution

Nov 30, 2015 | Human Origins & the Paleolithic, The Neolithic & Latter-Day Prehistory

During the past year, genetic studies have revealed some surprises about European prehistory. One...

The Walking Dead: A Tour of Prehistory

Dec 9, 2014 | Human Origins & the Paleolithic, The Neolithic & Latter-Day Prehistory

The Walking Dead offers some good prehistory. In the show's post-apocalyptic world, humanity...

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