Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Comment preview: I was in Savannah, GA when I was 10. We were at some historic fort and saw that there was another van with Wisconsin plates like ours, so we decided to park next to it. As we were getting out of the car, the family with the other WI van began to get into ....
Comment preview: > I guess people forgot what happened when they raised the minimum wage a few years ago. I remember what happened: regular inflation, at the same rate that it was happening before we raised the minimum wage. This is pure nostalgia, the "I remember when ....
Comment preview: Yes, I actually looked this up about a year ago because I got into with someone who told me Jewish Slaves did not build the Pyramids, because I love joking about the whole 'slaves get shit done/built the pyramids' nonsense. Well anyway, so I remember 'what ....
Comment preview: Let's go letter-by-letter: Latin B/Cyrillic : Both of these derive from Greek beta, but at different times. In Ancient Greek, beta was pronounced /b/, and this is how the letter was borrowed into Etruscan and ultimately Latin. In Medieval and Modern Greek ....
Comment preview: As you note there are some impressive examples of extremely deep historical memory. Australian Aboriginal folklore, for example, may contain memories of antedeluvian landscapes. Another example are the Kaali lakes in Estonia, which were formed by meteorite ....
Comment preview: So many times we have written and read about confirmation bias in this subred that it would be paradoxical that we wouldn t point at this as a huge one. It not enough to see patterns there, where no one else have seen it before and say hey, that is evid ....
Comment preview: 16 Apr 1178 BCE not only aligns with the (disputed) reference to a total solar eclipse, but also more subtle arrangements of the Pleiades, Bootes, Venus, Mercury, the Moon, the equinox, and the time of year which coincide on only a single date in 2,000 yea ....
Comment preview: It's really hard to link climate change to historical change in a rigorous way. The [paper on the Mongol Empire](http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/03/05/1318677111.abstract) mentioned above falls into the trap of assuming that just because an episode ....
Comment preview: Realistically that's not really true, much of the west was pretty vacant of mexicans until recent immigration since after WWII. The big exception I guess is Texas and New Mexico that did have large spanish populations. Secondly, saying 'claimed by mexico' ....
Comment preview: As a Frenchman, I call bullshit on that guy. There are a few suburbian cities where islamism is rampant, but they've never had Irish pubs, historic churches and people who dearly remember the childhood they spent there, they're shitty apartment blocks buil ....
Comment preview: Nothing tells me I'm in /r/PoliticalDiscussion like reading a question directed towards libertarians or conservatives and the top comment is by a liberal who explains conservative or libertarian logic but ends his comment attempting to debunk the logic. S ....
Comment preview: > Fortunately, the rise of Oculus coincided with competitors emerging. None of them are perfect, but competition is a very good thing. If this means there will be more competition, and VR keeps getting better, I am going to be a very happy boy. I defini ....
Comment preview: Did you just claim that Occam's Razor supports panspermia? Occam's Razor suggests the answer which requires the least hypothetical evidence is the one *most likely* to be true. So first of all, it's not anywhere near a valid scientific test. It's a helpful ....
Comment preview: The President may not "control" the economy but, historically, it does appear to matter who is President in terms of jobs, GDP and debt. For example, since World War II nearly [twice as many jobs](http://economyinperspective.com/jobs) were created when a D ....
Comment preview: Totally. Hence the fact that lots of people didn't buy into their freedom of the press thing, because it was freedom for some but for not others. Charlie Hebdo was an anti-clerical paper, ie, very anti-Catholic Church, and this for historical reasons - eve ....
Comment preview: The origin of the six pointed equilateral star occurred long before David or the israel religion. To me the image appears to be a reference to one of the many ancient "Horned Gods" that have occurred since the beginning of historic times. The combination o ....
Comment preview: > Ironically, this will breed further distrust in government - which has historically benefited Republicans at the polls. It's only ironic if you think it's somehow a coincidence or accident. Breeding distrust in government has been the Republican strat ....
Comment preview: culture comes into it a bit though here. Ninteno Japan could give fuck all about the west. there's a big thing in Japan with Japanese culture. they think everything made in japan is for japanese only. i live here. when i go to more historical districts its ....
Comment preview: German checking in. Several German chancelors and presidents have literally bowed their head in shame before victims of the holocaust. People like Willy Brandt, who fled Nazi Germany and would have himself have ended up in a concentration camp if he'd stay ....
Comment preview: So, what you're looking for is presumably absinthe that will cause you to "trip," which you're not going to find anywhere. But that's more likely because it never existed in the first place, and not because our current versions are different from historica ....
Comment preview: The commonality of Biphastic, polyphastic or otherwise segmented sleep cycles. The 8 hour sleep block is a product of the proliferation of electricity and the use of lightbulbs, which stimulate the brain similarly to sunlight, promoting wakefulness. Until ....
Comment preview: Whoa whoa, lets calm down here. This is NOT a chart of "Solar Output" or as I am thinking that many people are taking it, the amount of heat the sun is putting out. This is a historical chart of sunspots (monthly averages). There is little if any known cor ....
Comment preview: The orange colour for the Dutch team is a lot more interesting than this historically. The word 'orange' in the name of the Dutch Royal House 'Orange-Nassau' pre-dates the colour term 'orange' which came to European languages from Dravidian (and ultimately ....
Comment preview: >>Is delight in breasts innate or culturally learned? I don't know if this is getting too far afield from the historical focus of this subreddit, but I can address this from an evolutionary psychology background (which is what the question really is) ....
Comment preview: As another mid 20s dude who feels the same way re monogamy atm, I pretty much just withold judgement. If rates of infidelity and divorce are anything to go by, there's a reality about the human desire to pursue sexual engagement outside of marriage/monogam ....
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