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30 Sept 2024
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Ed Barnhart — holds since 2024-09-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The population of modern humans that expanded out of Africa around 50,000-60,000 years ago numbered only a few thousand individuals at most. — tap to centre the map on it The population of modern humans that expanded out of Africa around 50,000-60,000 years ago numbered only a few thousand individuals at most. Last stated 3 months ago
20 Aug 2026
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Razib Khan — holds since 2026-08-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Of the claims that people reached the Americas before Columbus, the Viking landing around 1000 is the most credible and deserves more attention. — tap to centre the map on it Of the claims that people reached the Americas before Columbus, the Viking landing around 1000 is the most credible and deserves more attention. Last stated 6 years ago
22 Sept 2020
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Valerie Hansen — holds since 2020-09-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The oldest people in the Americas are in South America, because the first wave went furthest and got isolated there. — tap to centre the map on it The oldest people in the Americas are in South America, because the first wave went furthest and got isolated there. Last stated 2 years ago
30 Sept 2024
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Ed Barnhart — holds since 2024-09-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: It is possible, though not certain, that some Vikings reached the Yucatán Peninsula around the year 1000. — tap to centre the map on it It is possible, though not certain, that some Vikings reached the Yucatán Peninsula around the year 1000. Last stated 6 years ago
22 Sept 2020
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Valerie Hansen — holds since 2020-09-22 — tap for who they are
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Irving Finkel — holds since 2025-12-12 — tap for who they are
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Irving Finkel — holds since 2025-12-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Humanity should be wary of answering signals from alien civilisations until it has developed further. — tap to centre the map on it Humanity should be wary of answering signals from alien civilisations until it has developed further.
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Stephen Hawking — holds since c. 1996 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A finite world can support only a finite population, so population growth must eventually reach zero — tap to centre the map on it A finite world can support only a finite population, so population growth must eventually reach zero Last stated 58 years ago
13 Dec 1968
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The first people reached the Americas at least 30,000 years ago, not 12,500.
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The population of modern humans that expanded out of Africa around 50,000-60,000 years ago numbered only a few thousand individuals at most.
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Of the claims that people reached the Americas before Columbus, the Viking landing around 1000 is the most credible and deserves more attention.
Holds
The oldest people in the Americas are in South America, because the first wave went furthest and got isolated there.
Holds
It is possible, though not certain, that some Vikings reached the Yucatán Peninsula around the year 1000.
Holds
The people of the ancient world were not less advanced than we are; they were probably indistinguishable from us.
Holds
The archaeological record of early writing is misleading, because people across the Middle East were sending each other messages long before the Sumerians.
Holds
Humanity should be wary of answering signals from alien civilisations until it has developed further.
Last stated c. 1996
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A finite world can support only a finite population, so population growth must eventually reach zero
Holds
A mass death does not by itself produce a boom afterwards: expecting a pandemic to renew an economy on its own misreads what followed the Black Death.
Holds
A model fitted only to trends in its own outcome cannot forecast anything, because it contains no variable anyone could change.
Holds
8Cr13MoV is no longer an acceptable steel for a knife, because the brands that built their name on it have moved on.
Holds
A continental army's first mission is to keep the regime in power, not to defend the border — which is what the People's Liberation Army is for.
Holds
A country cannot fund its own industrial strategy and call the same policy cheating when China does it.
Holds
‘Palestine’ is a name the Greeks and Romans imposed on the land of the Kingdom of Israel.
Holds
"Diversity" in practice means aiming for fewer white men in positions of authority.
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"The other side is bad too" is no answer to the Trump administration's use of power against speech.
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