Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas is our Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year! 🏆 #WPY60 His up-close image ‘Life Under Dead Wood’ depicts the fruiting bodies of slime mould and a tiny springtail. 😮

Zena Hitz “A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe.” Indeed.

Zena Hitz As when the force Of subterranean winds transports a hill Torn from Pelorus, or the shattered side Of thundering Aetna, whose combustible And fueled entrails thence conceiving fire, Sublimed with mineral fury, aid the winds And leave a singed bottom all involved In stench and

Two interesting Han Dynasty bamboo slips. Over two thousand years have passed, and I don't know if that person has paid him back? The other one says there is an urgent matter, has he already resolved it?😄#漢代 #HanDynasty

My paper is out in the Journal of Historical Political Economy! Let me know if you need a PDF and I'll be happy to send it your way. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

A friend asks: “where can I read a summary of latest climate science and forecasts but without activists alarmism thrown in?” Any answers?

There are structural theories of history and Great Man theories of history, but not really a “small groups” theory of history, says Patrick Collison to Jerusalem. I have two recommendations, but what are others?

Not quite right. The US supported the Khmer Republic, which the Khmer Rouge overthrew in 1975. Washington opposed the KR regime until its overthrow by the Vietnamese in early 1979, when, according to tortured binary Cold War logic, it supported the ousted KR.