Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Notes on Research
Gus Guerrero • 6 cards
Olivier Roy showed, for instance, that clan identities preceded ethnonational identities in Central Asia and…
Some highlights have been hidden or truncated due to export limits.
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Palestinian-Arab-Muslim population that had lived in villages and worked the land for centuries, only to be displaced by the Zionist invaders, is simply inconsistent with the recorded demographic data gathered not by the Jews or Zionists but rather by the local authorities themselves. J.
Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel
Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex) • Is Science Slowing Down?
Daniel Cahn
@dcahn
The small-world networks found everywhere, described in the Watts-Strogatz paper, have an intriguing feature. They are both unusually robust and unusually fragile. They are robust against random attacks or random failures. Which is why random server outages, for example, have little effect on internet traffic. But they are especially vulnerable to
... See moreSafi Bahcall • Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
Andy Matuschak
MargaretC • 2 cards
The orthodox Marxist notion2 that the Jews – as an economic agent – perform a distinctive function within a system designed for the extraction of surplus value has been replaced by the anticolonialist notion that the Jews – as a national collective – are integral to the maintenance of American hegemony on a global level.3 Accordingly, there has bee
... See more