
Seven day cycles don’t exist in nature. Which is why, when we find them, we have to make the qualified assumption that they are anthropogenic. You know how it always seems to rain on the weekend and then it’s fine on Monday as you head back to work? Turns out that’s actually a thing....
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If you woke up this morning with Queen Elizabeth II as your head of state then you probably have an opinion about rugby. Or if you woke up this morning in a country we have repeatedly trounced in battle (France) then you also probably have a rugby opinion. Kiwis, Australians, English, French, Welsh, Saffas....
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The greatest challenge when engaging with pseudohistory is its persistent need to speculate beyond the data. Take the Paeleolithic Renaissance. There is currently no universally accepted -or even verifiable- explanation for this simultaneous global flowering of art, and technological innovation that occurred pretty much everywhere where the earth wasn’t covered in a two mile...
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From your own experience, ask yourself this honestly: how successful are surprise parties? How about this one: how long does it typically take for a workplace-based extramarital affair to become common knowledge? Even ones that ruin marriages and (more importantly) careers seemingly have the inevitably of avalanches. We are shit at secrets. Gossip is...
Read more →For Scribs. As a teenager it became apparent that getting boys to make out with you required a substantially different strategy than getting girls to. With girls I would just add wine use my ears. Straight(ish) boys required a delicate balance of Demonstrating your own non-threatening awesomeness while Sufficiently loosening their reality bonds so...
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