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The Map Of Forbidden Places: The Whisky Rant (Part 4)
If you woke up this morning with Queen Elizabeth II as your head of state then you probably have an opinion about rugby. Or if you woke up this morning in a country we have repeatedly trounced in battle (France) then you also probably have a rugby opinion. Kiwis, Australians, English, French, Welsh, Saffas. Ask [...]
How Pseudohistory Works: The Whisky Rant (Part 3)
The greatest challenge when engaging with pseudohistory is its persistent need to speculate beyond the data. Take the Paeleolithic Renaissance. There is currently no universally accepted -or even verifiable- explanation for this simultaneous global flowering of art, and technological innovation that occurred pretty much everywhere where the earth wasn’t covered in a two mile block [...]
Review: The Hajj At The British Museum
In 1324, Mansa Musa, king of the Malian empire, left on his pilgrimage to Mecca. He took with him a retinue of 60,000 followers, used Andalucian architects to build a palace in Timbuktu along the way and peaceably incorporated a quarter of Africa into his realm. When he was done, he had the second biggest [...]
How Conspiracies Work: The Whisky Rant (Part 2)
From your own experience, ask yourself this honestly: how successful are surprise parties? How about this one: how long does it typically take for a workplace-based extramarital affair to become common knowledge? Even ones that ruin marriages and (more importantly) careers seemingly have the inevitably of avalanches. We are shit at secrets. Gossip is an [...]
The Whisky Rant (Part 1) – An Origin Story
For Scribs. As a teenager it became apparent that getting boys to make out with you required a substantially different strategy than getting girls to. With girls I would just add wine use my ears. Straight(ish) boys required a delicate balance of Demonstrating your own non-threatening awesomeness while Sufficiently loosening their reality bonds so as [...]
Refill Your Wonderment Supply To Make For Better Magic
The colleague who sat next to me on my last flight home from Hamburg is not a confident air passenger. If you are in a similar situation the secret is to hide in the numbers rather than resort to personal experience. The is because, unless you are flying several times a week, your mind considers [...]
Are You Calling Upon The Right Money Gods?
Even accounting for wars and famine and such our understanding of wealth has been reasonably stable since the development of agriculture. It wasn’t ever really all that mysterious. There were a small number of haves and then the rest of us are the have-nots. Wealth -or other system capacity- was accumulated in a more or [...]
A Visit To Tolkien’s Grave
My father has two favourite stories about me growing up, both from around my sixth or seventh year. And by favourite I mean two thirds of all the stories he tells about me as a child. (The other being the time I harassed an unfamiliar woman in the supermarket for buying cigarettes.) The first was [...]
Report: Wayland’s Smithy
Here’s a little tip if you’ve a mind to go on an English megalithica excursion: do it in early January. Everyone complains about the weather but which annoys you more: the fact you have to wear wellington boots or the arrival of packed tour buses? Exactly. We had the place entirely to ourselves for the [...]
Further Publishing Resources For The Occult Cyborg
More people searched for the term “Kindle” than “iPad” both before and after Christmas. That never happens. It’s supposed to go “iPhone, iPad, world peace, a different baby sister that maybe isn’t so annoying, everything else.” Via search trends, twitter and such, the sentiment of entire nations is available for you to measure for free [...]
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