Jacqui Turner David Stack University of Reading Leisure activities flourished in 19th-century Britain, as legislation was passed limiting the length of the working day and working week, giving people more free time. If you’re struggling to know how to spend your own free time this summer, take a leaf
The systematic study of fossils truly began around the 17th century, while the term “paleontology” was only coined in 1822. But, just because they didn’t have a name for their study, or understand what they really were, doesn’t mean that humans weren’t aware of the existence of
Michael Matulef Mike works in construction by day and is an independent student of Austrian Economics by night. Mike associates philosophically with crypto-anarchism and is interested in learning how Bitcoin and other open source technologies can create parallel systems based on consent rather than coercion. mises.org The Constitution “is
Vlad III, ruler of Wallachia (now part of Romania) in the 15th century is one of the more notoriously brutal rulers of history. While Bram Stoker clearly derived the name Dracula and the location Transylvania, scholars debate just how much the historical prince influenced the creation of the fictional vampire.
David Bell David Bell, senior scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in
Monica Hughes PhD themariachiyears.substack.com Mathew Crawford at Rounding the Earth has been busy with a new one that piqued my interest. https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/earlier-covid-19-outbreaks-on-military?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web In this installment, he connects more dots in his
Rodney Tiffen University of Sydney theconversation.com Nearly every biographical commentary on Rupert Murdoch notes how he began with a modest inheritance in Adelaide, principally an afternoon newspaper, and built it into a global multimedia empire. Walter Marsh’s book Young Rupert: The Making of the Murdoch Empire has the
Back in the dawn of the 80s, a friend returned to school from a trip to America. He regaled us with one story I particularly remember: visiting a house where they played chess on a computer — against another computer user at the other end of the country, via a telephone
J.W. Rich J.W. Rich is an economics student and writer in Charlotte, North Carolina. mises.org How do you cover up an atomic bomb? The same way you cover up anything else: you don’t allow people to know what really happened. Of course, the magnitude and power
L Matthew Meyers L Matthew Myers is a data-driven financial, media, and policy analyst. His work has appeared in over 20 major publications, and he has published extensively on toxicology, health sciences, biotech, and pharmaceuticals. brownstone.org Oppenheimer is an epic film, and an extraordinary cinematic achievement. Writer-Director Christopher Nolan’
Sarah Cowgill National columnist at LibertyNation.com. Sarah has been a writer in the political and corporate worlds for over 30 years. As a sought-after speech writer, her clients included CEOs, US senators, congressmen, governors, and even a vice president. She’s worked as contributing editor at Scottsdale Life, a
Armando Simón Armando Simón is a retired psychologist, originally from Cuba, and author of The U, Fables From the Americas and A Prison Mosaic. brownstone.org Today’s toxic state in society is a cornucopia for psychologists. For example, victimhood has become a status symbol in society to the point
As Geoffrey Blainey argues in A Short History of Christianity, far from being a fictional character, the very fact that we know anything at all about Jesus is remarkable in itself. After all, a middle-class Jewish carpenter’s son in a far-flung boondock province was the last sort of person
Emmanuel Comte Dr Emmanuel Comte is a senior research fellow of the European Program at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy in Athens (ELIAMEP) and a professorial lecturer at the Vienna School of International Studies. mises.org Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s frescoes adorning the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy,
As eminent earth scientist Professor Ian Plimer has said, we must be the first generations in human history to be afraid of a warming climate. Warming climates are historically associated with abundance and thriving life. Which is what we’re seeing in the current, mildly warming climate: the Earth is
