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Seeing is believing
Covid skepticism, and measles on islands
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Set up to fail
Mass shootings, and an ancient poem about making pottery
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Things fall apart, or not
Twitter, the Russian army in Ukraine, and the Western Roman Empire
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Oral history and archaeology
Lessons from The Lord of the Rings and the Iliad
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Star Trek did not prepare me for ChatGPT
It’s plagiarism, not power. Yet.
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Miracles, and miracles of science
Doubting Thomas and anti-vaxxers
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How Easter made the modern calendar
Every spring, I have the vague sense that Easter is coming, but my only way to figure out its date is to look at a calendar. This year, Easter is on…
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Ways of knowing
Covid misinformation, and Herodotus’s Histories
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