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<strong>Hidden gold earring reveals forgotten episode of Carthage-Rome war</strong>

"The jewelry piece was discovered inside a ruined building in the middle of the Pyrenees. The building is believed to have been part of a devastating fire that burned the settlement to the ground.

The destruction was dated around the end of the third century BCE, the moment where the Pyrenees were involved in the Second Punic War and the passage of Hannibal’s troops,”

mining.com/hidden-gold-earring

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<strong>Not Doubting Thomas: the Aquinas Revival</strong>

"_Cajetan, Bañez and other thinkers make Aquinas a central figure of Counter-Reformation thought; we focus on their theories about analogy and the soul._"

historyofphilosophy.net/aquina

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<strong>Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce</strong>

"_Mussolini’s propaganda was full of references to Latin and ancient Roman imagery. In 1936, after the end of the Italo-Ethiopian colonial war, the Duce boastfully announced from the balcony of Palazzo Venezia “the reappearance of the empire on the fatal hills of Rome.” A racial legislation carefully regulated the interactions between Italians and Ethiopians._"

Ronchini, Maria-Anita. "Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce" TheCollector.com, thecollector.com/benito-mussol (accessed May 24, 2024).

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<strong>Richard Bourke - Hegel's World Revolutions</strong>

"_A conversation with Richard Bourke about his recent book "Hegel's World Revolutions" (Princeton University Press)._"

podomatic.com/podcasts/thepoli

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<strong>Episode 295 - The Forgotten Siege</strong>

"_While Epirus was rising and falling, Nicaea was consolidating. John Vatatzes, the new Emperor, was competent at home and abroad. After years of consolidation he decided to besiege Constantinople. But he didn't act alone he invited an unlikely ally to join him._"

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<strong>F. A. Hayek, Libertarianism, and the Denationalization of Money</strong>

"_Hayek found support within the American libertarian movement. Libertarians realized that Hayek's radical proposal would limit state control over the monetary system and allow for the free exchange of gold._"

McIntosh, W. (2024) ‘F. A. Hayek, Libertarianism, and the Denationalization of Money’, Modern American History, pp. 1–20. doi: doi.org/10.1017/mah.2024.19.

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<strong>Conditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rights</strong>

"_Our findings suggest that U.S. voters are pragmatic about extending the local franchise to noncitizens. Although U.S. voters are, on average, indifferent toward local noncitizen suffrage, they oppose enfranchisement when noncitizens would vote for the opposing party._"

ALARIAN, H. and ZONSZEIN, S. (2024) ‘Conditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rights’, American Political Science Review, pp. 1–8. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0003055424000.

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<strong>A United States of Europe</strong>

"_A free and unified Europe was first imagined by Italian radicals in the 19th century. Could we yet see their dream made real?_"

aeon.co/essays/could-we-recove

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<strong>Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress</strong>

"_AI systems threaten to amplify social injustice, erode social stability, enable large-scale criminal activity, and facilitate automated warfare, customized mass manipulation, and pervasive surveillance.._"

doi.org/10.1126/science.adn011

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<strong>Origen of Alexandria and the History of Racism as a Theological Problem</strong>

"_Earlier scholarly accounts that portray Origen as a champion of human equality and as engaged in anti-racist efforts therefore cannot stand up to scrutiny. Origen disparages certain ethnic groups and develops arguments that connect ethnic identity and geographical location with various degrees of sinfulness. His work offers clear evidence that theories of ethnic inferiority have a long history within the Christian matrix that stretches considerably beyond the modern and medieval periods._"

Matthijs den Dulk, Origen of Alexandria and the History of Racism as a Theological Problem, The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 71, Issue 1, April 2020, Pages 164–195, doi.org/10.1093/jts/flaa025

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"_The extent to which the worship of Baal and Asherah affected Israel’s understanding of Yahweh is seen in the inscriptions found at Kuntillet Ajrud. Jezebel was not fully responsible for the ongoing worship of Canaanite deities in Israel and Judah but her reign gave legitimacy to the long held tendency._"

Dolan, M. (2024) “Jezebel: A Hebrew Disaster”, Buried History: The Journal of the Australian Institute of Archaeology, 40, pp. 39–48. doi.org/10.62614/7d25h288

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Global population growth peaked six decades ago

"The growth rate peaked in 1963 at over 2% per year, and since then, it has more than halved, falling to less than 1% by 2020."

ourworldindata.org/data-insigh

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How do we use the Earth’s land?

"There are a few pretty big takeaways here. For one, the fact that agriculture takes up almost half of habitable land. Humankind has, over the past 1000 years, turned 120,000 square kilometers of wild habitat into farmland — an area equal to the USA 13 times over.

That, of course, makes agriculture the absolute number one cause of deforestation and our planet’s diminishing biodiversity."

blog.datawrapper.de/land-use-a

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John Milton’s notes discovered

"John Milton’s handwritten annotations have been identified in a copy of Holinshed's Chronicles, a vital source of inspiration for the Paradise Lost poet."

cam.ac.uk/stories/john-miltons

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Episode 294 - The Rise and Fall of Epirus

"Theodoros Doukas the leader of the Roman state of Epirus leads his people to ever greater heights in the 1220s. He captures Thessalonica and drives towards Constantinople itself. Doukas declares himself Emperor but does he have the resources necessary to reach the Hagia Sophia?"

shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-

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Backstabbing, bluffing and playing dead: has AI learned to deceive? – podcast

"Dr Peter Park, an AI existential safety researcher at MIT and author of the research, tells Ian Sample about the different examples of deception he uncovered, and why they will be so difficult to tackle as long as AI remains a black box."

theguardian.com/science/audio/

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2023 was the northern hemisphere’s hottest summer in 2,000 years

"Looking back at the past 2,000 years, the team searched for the warmest summers on record to see how they compared to 2023. They found that the hottest June to August in the pre-industrial era was in 246 CE when temperatures were around 0.88⁰C above average.

This record stood for over 1,000 years, before being broken repeatedly since the late 1990s."

nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2024/m

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Thomas Willis (1621-1675) : Neurologist, Chemist, Physician

"Willis is not only credited to be the founder of neurology, but he is also seen as the father of comparative neuroanatomy, as his work, in particular Cerebri anatome and De anima brutorum, compare the human brain with that of other species in ‘search for specific human abilities in cognitive functions’ (Molnár, p. 334)."

stjohnscollegelibraryoxford.or

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"A Bayesian analysis showed that participants had high expectations and performed descriptively better irrespective of the AI description when a sham-AI was present. Using cognitive modeling, we could trace this advantage back to participants gathering more information."

Agnes Mercedes Kloft, Robin Welsch, Thomas Kosch, and Steeven Villa. 2024. "AI enhances our performance, I have no doubt this one will do the same": The Placebo effect is robust to negative descriptions of AI. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 299, 1–24. doi.org/10.1145/3613904.364263

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Band of Brothers: the Jesuits

"Ignatius of Loyola’s movement begins modestly, but winds up having a global impact on education and philosophy."

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