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- Art for a Frozen Day
- Thought for the New Year
- More Amazing Finds from the Siberian Bronze Age
- A Window
- Men Polled about Sexual Harassment
- Things that Matter
- The Emperor's Quest for Immortality
- Me on Powers Hill, Gettysburg
- Crime Falling in New York
- Jochen Bittner Explains the Decline of Social Demo...
- Is the Liberal Order in Terminal Decline?
- Oskar Bergman
- Private Bureaucracy
- Pondering
- Is Bamboo Blight?
- A Bestiary in Stone
- The Goal of Life
- The Nativity
- Klyuchevskaya sopka, Kamchatka
- Christmas Eve Sunrise, Catonsville, Maryland
- Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers
- We Fear the Wrong Things
- Grundtvig's Church
- The Regalia of Queen Puabi
- The Land of Death
- 4,000-Year-Old Footprint from Ancient Ur
- The Power of Polarization
- Holme Cardwell, Diana, 1862
- Happy Solstice
- Economists not Concerned about the End of Net Neut...
- Le Château du Hénan
- Department of Irony
- The Hunter-Gatherer Romance
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
- Gettysburg, Snow Falling
- What Divides the Parties? Feminism
- How to Distinguish the Effect of Schooling from th...
- Tom Friedman Thanks the People of Alabama
- Our Strange, Agenda-Free Radicalism
- Philip Beesley, Astrocyte
- Irish Genes
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- A Skull from Colonial Delaware
- Peter Gardiner, Things on Fire
- Jo Walton, Among Others
- Ippolito Caffi, the Colosseum
- Shower Thought
- Gay Marriage and Party Loyalty in Australia
- On Feeling like an Outsider
- Soviet Bus Stops
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- Little Foot
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- Remember Shaken Baby Syndrome?
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- Vilhelm Hammershoi
- Amazing if True: Spiders Spinning Graphene Webs
- The Roman Economy
- A Catalan for Spain
- Wonders and Oddities from Classics Week at Christie's
- Boom Times at Dollar General
- A Murmuration of Starlings Filmed by Jan van Ijken
- The Skeletons of Roopkund Lake, or, Greeks Lost in...
- US Fertility Still Falling
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- Phage Therapy
- Medieval Sculpture from Classics Week at Christie's
- The Ambivalence of Upward Mobility
- Two Hundred Pterosaur Eggs
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About Me
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- John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
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Like, I could start a movement to promote some liberal social value, and the backlash could help conservatives keep power a couple of decades from now? Cool!
This person has clearly never watched the Star Trek episode where Kirk goes back in time, saves some anonymous pedestrian from a speeding car, and thus helps the Nazis win WWII.
I thought that was exactly the kind of story they were talking about.
Interesting. I took it as an exhortation to go out and do something. But I could definitely get on board with an exhortation to inaction.
City on the Edge of Forever, original story by Harlan Ellison.
"Edith Keeler was right."
"She was right, but at the wrong time."
"Save her, do as your heart tells you to do, and millions will die who did not die before."
In some of these stories, the act that changes the future is something significant like saving a life. But it others it is something trivial; in one I remember it was killing a butterfly. I take the original shower thought as an invitation to see all your acts as significant. To think that they might reverberate through time. Which, to me, means to make them as kind and as wise as you can.
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