Almost 1000 years ago monks, scholars, poets, and the like lamented the invention of a new technology that was going to destroy the fabric of society: the chimney. Until the late 12th Century, in Northern Europe, people ate their meals together in common rooms, dressed…
read more →I just learned for the first time that the Ancient Greeks had a god of criticism: Momus. He was eventually expelled from Olympus (no surprise there), but when I looked up his genealogy, I noticed something I also hadn’t realized before: that Nyx and Erebus…
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