The Internet never forgets, or so the saying goes. Actually it forgets all the time. We’re constantly losing important information from the Internet. The loss of the Deja News archives was infamous. In the 1990s Deja had an enormous repository of online discussions from Usenet, arguably an early form of social media. And then Deja …
Robert Brockway presented the following to the New Zealand Conference over Zoom. In 2023 he attended the conference in person and hopes to do so again in 2025. –Ed. There’s an old joke. I don’t recall when I first heard it. Although the wording varies, I first heard it as: “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t …
The 16th century was a time of powerful female rulers in Western Europe. Queen Elizabeth ruled for what amounts to the second half of the 16th century. She was no figurehead either. She was the absolute ruler of England and Ireland (Britain would not arise as a state until generations later). Legally she was a …
Mothers of Sons and Bettina Arndt are holding an important a one-day conference in Sydney Australia. The Restoring the Presumption of Innocence Conference is being held on 31 August 2024. Speakers include Augusto Zimmermann and Bettina Arndt, who have both spoken previously at ICMI17, and Damien Coory who hosts the popular vlog The Other Side. …
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Mothers of Sons and Bettina Arndt are holding an important a one-day conference in Sydney Australia. The Restoring the Presumption of Innocence Conference is being held on 31 August 2024. Speakers include Augusto Zimmermann and Bettina Arndt, who have both spoken previously at ICMI17, and Damien Coory who hosts the popular vlog The Other Side. …
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Mothers of Sons and Bettina Arndt are holding an important a one-day conference in Sydney Australia. The Restoring the Presumption of Innocence Conference is being held on 31 August 2024. Speakers include Augusto Zimmermann and Bettina Arndt, who have both spoken previously at ICMI17, and Damien Coory who hosts the popular vlog The Other Side. …
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Mothers of Sons and Bettina Arndt are holding an important a one-day conference in Sydney Australia. The Restoring the Presumption of Innocence Conference is being held on 31 August 2024. Speakers include Augusto Zimmermann and Bettina Arndt, who have both spoken previously at ICMI17, and Damien Coory who hosts the popular vlog The Other Side. …
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Imagine. It’s the 15th or 16th century in merry old England. You’re a monk looking for some action on a Saturday night. Where do you go? Littlemore Priory of course! In 1445 the priory was investigated because the prioress, Alice Wakeley, regularly hosted drinking sessions. At least one local monk often dropped by to party …
No one knows the exact year that Irene was born. It could have been 750 or 756 or somewhere in between. What we do know is that she was Greek and born in Athens. By the time of her birth Athens was a provincial backwater in the Eastern Roman Empire. Many of the buildings from …
