Tag: rant
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Writting articles: stagnation and scarcity
Discussing image rights and Crodur future way of engaging with that.
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Temporal setback
Hello, to anyone invested in Crodur and reading the articles. I am afraid there will be a small delay until the next one is published. It pains me to communicate this, but many issues (most of them my fault, let’s not beat around the bush) arised. As a little spoiler, the next article was on…
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Greek mythology: Original or copycat?
A recurring joke among those interested in classic History (such as myself) exists around the Roman and Greek mythos, specially how the later are depicted as an original creation, made by the Hellas natives, and/or immigrant waves that eventually settled in, and the Romans just… claimed it as their own, slapped a couple names on…
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Age of metals
Following up with the post I made about mayas, metallurgy as a way to gauge civilization advancement becomes even more ridiculous the longer you stray away from the typical regions (again, Europe and occasionally part of Asia). We got the example of the North Sentinel people! For anyone who doesn’t know about them, the Sentinelese…
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Maya civilization!
Lately I’ve been obsessed with the Maya culture, so I may write a lot about them. Most of their existence they had what we would call stone age tools, obsidian here and there, and metals only started being a thing after they were at their peak (widespread uttensils only after X century in most areas).…
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The wounded lioness
Something we take for granted (a lot) is that most anatomical and medical knowledge has been known for relatively little time, but here and there we get small clues proving that wasn’t exactly what happened. Yes, there was rampant misinformation and poor understanding of the human body processes. Stuff like the four humors, for example,…
