Would you compose an ode to your greatest enemies?

On the capacity for sympathy

Starving While Surrounded by Food

A Common Failure Mode of Colonization

How do you sleep?

Like other norms, sleep norms have differed greatly over time

Dissolving Your Difficult Decision

Energy Never Lies

Cultural Time-to-live

An Analogy from the Domain Name System

A Pharaoh's Widow Begs for a Husband

A Tragedy in 114 Words

Could Authoritative Prophecies Be Ignored Without Giving Up Legitimacy?

The Mercy of a Sun Goddess

The First Trading Empire: The Assyrian Merchant Networks

On the Power of Guest Rights

Gods in Stone?

From Ancient Metal Treaties to Golden Space Messages

preserving messages for posterity

Ancient Empire Found Hidden in Plain Sight

These "myths" left behind thousands of readable records

Standard Measures Grow the Collective Brain

And why the metric system wasn't immediately adopted