Sunday, April 4th, 2010
Human evolution is an interesting and intriguing story. However, I have never really been able to keep my Australopithecus and my Neanderthal straight.
The "Dawn of Man", which accompanies a BBC Documentary, has managed to present the evolution of man from Ape to Human as a cohesive well told ...
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Occasionally I love to read Military Analysis articles from various sources. Planeman's blog is a great resource for a detailed look at the military capabilities of the various hotspots in the world.
Planeman's Military ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
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Movie on Adolf Hitler
This is not the first time I have liked a movie based on the Holocaust/Hitler Regime/World War II. For people who like movies on World War II this is a must watch. The movie tells facts from the story of Adolf Hitler's secretary who lived in ...
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
David Christian more or less started the field of Big History and "Maps of Time: An introduction to Big History" is thus the first and best book on the subject available today.
David's theme is the evolution of complex entities that can process increasingly larger energy flows and thus prevent disorder. ...
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
I have recently had an increased interest in the upcoming field of Big History. Big History tries to take the entire history of the universe starting from the Big Bang and present it in a single far reaching story. The different authors take different approaches to connect this story into ...
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