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Africa:
The meme of honourable death
Category: Africa
To die honourably is second most desirable outcome in war. The most desirable outcome would be to manage to survive your honourable death.
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Primitive Cultures are Simple, Civilization is Complex (A falsehood) I
Category: Falsehoods
I'd like to offer a way of thinking about the difference between what we call "civilization" and what some people call "primitive cultures" that will be more useful and less falsehood-prone
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Embassy Bomber Killed in Somalia?
Category: Africa
One of the senior planners of the attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania a few years back is reported killed by US special operations troops in a raid that happened earlier today in Somalia. Here's a link to a story with some...
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Sierra Leone Ferry Sunk
Category: Africa
More than 200 people remain missing in Sierra Leone a day after a boat capsized, killing at least 8, police said on Thursday. Police official Ibrahim Samura said most of the passengers onboard were schoolchildren returning from holidays in the West African nation. more...
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The poor and the dark skinned have more babies than the rich and the light skinned
Category: Falsehoods
Today's falsehood is the assertion that the poor have more babies than the rich, or that the poor just have more babies to begin with. In comparison to ... whatever.
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A True Ghost Story Part 5: The Grave on the Hill
Category: A True Ghost Story
The next installment in the amazing saga of the Ghost of the MacGregor Museum.
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A true ghost story. Part I: A City of Death and Misery
Category: Anthropology
... everyone was pretty tired which was good, because when the disembodied footsteps came down the hallway, I was the only person who heard them. But that was not to be the case for very long...
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Wildlife in Protected Areas Compared to Non-Protected Areas of Kenya
Category: Africa
It has become virtually axiomatic that as climate shifts or other potential insults to the ecology of a given area occur, plants and animals enclosed in parks bounded by "impermeable" landscapes are at great risk. Instead of the extreme ranges of a plant or...
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What a Difference a Century Can Make
Category: Anthropology
The traveler was a college-educated westerner with a late-Victorian attitude about Africans. The idea that all Africans are at least a little subhuman would have been a starting point for him.
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