Archive - Qui Ante Nos

What I learned at a comic con

Or, how to be a nerd

Apr 1 •

January 2024

Working hard or hardly working

Hunger and the length of a work day, in the Stone Age

Jan 13 •

November 2023

Things didn't have to be this way

A Qui Ante Nos manifesto

Nov 11, 2023 •

September 2023

Units of measure

Pecks, bushels, and the story of Mohenjo-Daro

Sep 24, 2023 •

August 2023

Bread and subways

Two things only, the people desire

Aug 21, 2023 •

July 2023

The American county

New Jersey, Virginia, and the Holy Roman Empire

Jul 22, 2023 •

Vikings didn’t need therapy

Icelandic sagas and existentialism

Jul 8, 2023 •

June 2023

The American housing shortage

A collective action problem, like OPEC or Yucca Mountain

Jun 26, 2023 •

With excerpts from Lincoln and Douglass

Jun 19, 2023 •

In the Bible and in the US federal government

Jun 12, 2023 •

Roman gladiators didn’t use toilet paper

Covid toilet paper shortages, and snippets the history of hygiene

Jun 5, 2023 •

May 2023

Seeing is believing

Covid skepticism, and measles on islands

May 29, 2023 •

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