Archaeologists have recently uncovered a series of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that were home to at least 10,000 people around 2,000 years ago. This discovery, located near the Andes in the Ecuadorian Amazon, was made possible using advanced LIDAR technology, which… pic.twitter.com/dNFp62bIp6
— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) November 26, 2024
“Since the value of freedom rests on the opportunities it provides for unforeseen and unpredictable actions, we will rarely know what we lose through a particular restriction of freedom.”
— F. A. Hayek Quotes (@FAHayekSays) November 27, 2024
— Friedrich Hayek
In 1965, Singapore was forced out of Malaysia.
— Oscar Hoole (@theoscarhoole) November 25, 2024
No army.
No resources.
No fresh water.
A tiny island of 2M people living in slums.
Then ONE man's ruthless vision built modern Asia's greatest success...
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Your chances of being hunted by a turkey are low, but never zero. pic.twitter.com/F17j7WtHaP
— National Park Service (@NatlParkService) November 27, 2024
Demographic consequences of the First World War.
— LiorLefineder (@lefineder) November 27, 2024
"The deficit of births during the Great War is estimated, for France, to be about 1.4 million while military casualties are about 1.4 million too. This means that the French population was 2.8 million people ‘short’ at the end of… pic.twitter.com/1OCib1F29g
The Hellenistic Giant Galley 'Tessarakonteres' - one of the largest human-powered vessels in history. ..
— ArchaeoHistories (@histories_arch) November 26, 2024
Tessarakonteres (in Greek - "forty-rowed"), or simply "forty" - was a very large catamaran galley reportedly built in the Hellenistic period by Ptolemy IV Philopator of… pic.twitter.com/AehdWBu4F5
The white v. POC, gender, etc debates obscure the most important fact about crime - 1% of citizens commit roughly 2/3 of it. https://t.co/LpVdFBwUjs
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) November 27, 2024
The Malabar squirrel
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) November 27, 2024
The world's largest squirrel species that can grow up to 1 meter in length.pic.twitter.com/naun4jUhoV
If your dad was a civil engineer ... pic.twitter.com/8eDP1LLPl8
— Figen (@TheFigen_) November 27, 2024
If a generation of 30 million people has a fertility rate of 0.68, the next generation contains only 10.2 million people.
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) November 27, 2024
The first generation's grandkids number only about 3.5 million, and their great-grandkids number only about 1.2 million.
Korea will disappear overnight. https://t.co/01gCh1fYAZ
Garett Jones once pointed out that a large share of a company’s work force does not produce widgets. Instead, they produce organizational capital.[snip]When a company’s revenues are growing, it is tempting for senior executives to try to invest in organizational capital. It is tempting to put off worrying about excess bureaucracy.I believe that a corporation’s senior management can only focus on a few major efforts at a time. If it has enough on its plate, and if costs are not killing the company, senior executives will not focus on bureaucratic undergrowth. But at some point, the significance of bloated costs rises relative to other issues facing senior management. Restructuring then becomes one of the top two or three initiatives that senior executives undertake in a given year.Perhaps what happened in recent years is that senior executives could not see how to boost revenues quickly enough to satisfy shareholders. So they looked for ways to cut costs. The thing is, you can only do that so much. At some point, there are no more corporate initiatives to be terminated and no more bureaucratic bloat to be eliminated. There are not likely to be new major cost-cutting efforts every year.
Gold foundation plaque of Darius the Great (550-486 BC) ...
— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) November 26, 2024
Decades ago, 2 gold/2 silver plaques were found during excavations of Apadana Palace at Persepolis-Iran. They were buried intentionally in stone boxes along with coins as a time capsule from Ancient Persia.
They’re… pic.twitter.com/SQTVaJdScE
‘I just can’t believe the British state housed and funded that notorious jihadi terrorist’
— Luca Watson (@lucaajwatson) November 26, 2024
‘You mean the Hamas chief given British citizenship and a council house in Barnet?’
‘No, not him’
‘The Manchester attackers and their family who were rescued by the Royal Navy whilst… https://t.co/Igs5fCRgBF
Une magnifique maison en Belgique 😍 pic.twitter.com/RzDdrClzvx
— Perle (@veritebeaute) November 26, 2024
This is what I came to the internet for pic.twitter.com/boSh3XZCkq
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 27, 2024
THE REAL REASON FOR CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT CO2:
— Robin Monotti (@robinmonotti) November 27, 2024
The Sun's wobble, plus irregular orbits, modulates the varying Earth-Sun distance, resulting in climate change. You can't see the wobble: it's VERY slow. It wobbles by the maximum length of two diameters of the Sun. This is the… pic.twitter.com/OpHQLDm7lU
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