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Historical contingency (Louisiana edition)
What if Napoleon had sold Louisiana to Britain or Spain instead of the USA?
Greater Mexico (circa 1851)
Hat tip to marianovsky for the sharing this old map with us.
Gödel’s loophole (Twitter edition)
Kurt Gödel found a bug in the Constitution that would allow a rise of fascism. It almost cost him his citizenship: http://t.co/D09fQiSAH8— Parker Higgins (@xor) November 01, 2014 What happens when the world’s greatest logician since Aristotle decides to study the … Continue reading
North American Holocaust
The territorial expansion of the United States (“Manifest Destiny”) came mostly at the expense of Native Americans (as well as Mexico). Think about that next time you think about “immigration reform” or the global “war on terror.” (Click on the map … Continue reading
Comet landing
.@ESA_Rosetta See for yourself! ROLIS imaged #67P when we were just 3km away! Glad I can share. #CometLanding http://t.co/b6mcid2fsn— Philae Lander (@Philae2014) November 12, 2014 The European Space Agency has soft-landed its Philae spacecraft on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The signal from … Continue reading
College football map (circa 1938)
Click on the map above for a better look. Hat tip to Tarene for finding this beautiful map.
“Generalissimo of the Nation”
That is the subtitle of this excellent paper by our friend William Adler, a professor of American politics at Northeastern University. His short paper is about war-making and the presidency in the early republic, and it’s one of our favorite papers from this … Continue reading
WWII films by country
Why are war movies so popular in the United States? What do these data say about North American culture? Don’t we need to know the total number of post-WWII films produced by each country on this particular list to answer these … Continue reading
prior probability 