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Linknote — 11 January 2018 — 21 words

Society

Reality has a surprising amount of detail

This fascinating article explains why everything is so much harder than you might think.

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Linknote — 6 January 2018 — 43 words

Social science

Why everything might have taken so long

Why did it take humans until 4000BC to invent the wheel? Or 3000BC to begin writing? Katja Grace has gathered an interesting list of hypotheses that could explain why we were so slow to get going.

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