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Units of measure
Pecks, bushels, and the story of Mohenjo-Daro
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Scott Olesen
August 2023
Bread and subways
Two things only, the people desire
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Scott Olesen
July 2023
The American county
New Jersey, Virginia, and the Holy Roman Empire
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Vikings didn’t need therapy
Icelandic sagas and existentialism
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Scott Olesen
June 2023
The American housing shortage
A collective action problem, like OPEC or Yucca Mountain
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Juneteenth
With excerpts from Lincoln and Douglass
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Scott Olesen
Blamelessness
In the Bible and in the US federal government
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Scott Olesen
Roman gladiators didn’t use toilet paper
Covid toilet paper shortages, and snippets the history of hygiene
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Scott Olesen
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May 2023
Seeing is believing
Covid skepticism, and measles on islands
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Set up to fail
Mass shootings, and an ancient poem about making pottery
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Things fall apart, or not
Twitter, the Russian army in Ukraine, and the Western Roman Empire
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Oral history and archaeology
Lessons from The Lord of the Rings and the Iliad
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Scott Olesen
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