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Christian atheism is an atheistic belief system that engages with Christian teachings and culture while rejecting the literal existence of God.
The rice theory suggests that cultures in areas where paddy rice farming is prevalent tend to be more collectivist due to the high labor demands and need for cooperation that rice cultivation requires.
Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935), also known as Lawrence of Arabia, was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer.
In 1957, he reportedly suggested to a Yugoslav visitor that China’s vast territory and large population could withstand significant losses.
The map visualises Australian law, where proximity indicates similarity, providing insight into how laws, regulations, and cases interrelate.
Bowie bonds were asset-backed securities using David Bowie’s royalty streams from albums and live performances as collateral, first issued in 1997.
This study examines the causal relationship between tourism and economic development in a sample of 123 countries from 1995 to 2019, utilising the Dumistrescu and Hurlin Granger causality test, with a focus on heterogeneous panels of countries.
A few years ago, the New York Times chose to apply an investigative and critical approach to technology reporting, focusing more on scrutiny than on business or consumer interests.
The unmoved mover, or prime mover, is Aristotle’s concept of a primary cause of all motion in the universe, which itself is not moved by anything else.
C.S. Lewis compares living in the atomic age with past dangers like the plague, Viking raids, and other risks like cancer or accidents, highlighting the continuity of human exposure to threats.
Democritus was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher known for proposing an atomic theory of the universe.
Paleoanthropologists have long thought that the ancestors of American natives came over from Siberia about 13,500 years ago, but evidence suggests human presence in the Americas may date back over 30,000 years.
Statistics of Deadly Quarrels, a 1960 book by Lewis Fry Richardson, explores the mathematical and social aspects of war, analysing conflicts from the early 19th to mid-20th century using a base 10 logarithmic scale.
Niall Ferguson attempts to explain why the West led the world in recent centuries, and what this could mean for the future.
The Vesuvius Challenge 2023 awarded its Grand Prize for successfully reading a 2000-year-old scroll that discusses music, food, and life’s pleasures, originally buried by the eruption that created the Herculaneum Papyri.
> Human knowledge had become too great for the human mind.
Russian cosmism, emerging at the end of the 19th century and resurging in the early 20th century, is a philosophical and cultural movement with a broad theory combining religion, ethics, and natural philosophy.
Power devoid of love can lead to reckless and abusive behaviour.
Bringing down the system doesn’t mean it’ll be replaced by the system you’d prefer. Those who destroy rarely have much control over what fills the vacuum of power.
This book explores the history of the British Empire. It considers the changing motivations of the British, the circumstances that led to its pre-eminence, the impact it had on the world, and the nature of its downfall.
Gandhi observes that Europeans live in better houses and wear more varied clothing compared to a century ago, with advancements in technology replacing spears with firearms and manual labour with steam engines in agriculture.
Typically the chatter around soft landing peaks just as recessions happen.
The paper investigates the existence of a socioeconomic premium associated with the size of a country, analysing data from 200 countries over 50 years.
Catherine of Siena, an Italian mystic and laywoman, became involved in papal politics, primarily through her letters, and was canonized in 1461 and later named a Doctor of the Church.
Recession is generally considered a natural phase of economic cycles, but Australia has defied this trend with nearly 30 years of expansion.