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Commerican is a 24 year old married guy from Austin, Texas, USA.
A stable pinprick of logical, thoughtful light in a vast sea of darkness and ignorance. Seeking and promoting beneficial memes, and dismantling and containing detrimental ones. *** Proletariat internationalist, Secular anarcho-trans/humanist atheist, Historical (but not dialectical) materialist, I like Extropy, Singularitarian, Stag Hunting Vegetarian, Humanitarian, Tit-for-Tatter, Skeptic, Anti-authoritarian rebel with a cause, Lovelockean Gaian, Autodidactic polymath (arrogantly self-styled), Axiomatic survival computer, Tinker, Inventor, Ranter, Utility maximizer, Boundary-dissolver, Iterative refiner, Do-It-Yerselfer, A Living Fractal of a Machine *** c = Δ
Worlds oldest computer link to early Olympics (8/1/2008)
Aug 3, 9:32am    (3 reviews)  ancient-history  http://www.fossilscience.com/research/Wo...
Excavated Jericho bones may help Israeli-Palestinian-German team combat...
Jul 15, 10:57am    (2 reviews)  ancient-history  http://www.geneticarchaeology.com/resear...
EurasiaNet Civil Society - Turkey: Discovery of 12,000-year-old Temple...
Jun 4, 8:40am    (5 reviews)  ancient-history  http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/in...
Roman Army Tactics
Apr 23, 8:55am    (3 reviews)  ancient-history  http://www.roman-empire.net/army/tactics...
Research chips away at the past (4/8/2008)
Apr 11, 9:07am    (3 reviews)  ancient-history  http://www.fossilscience.com/research/Re...
Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions: Woven Cloth
Apr 10, 8:16am    (4 reviews)  ancient-history  http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_...
Ancient looms.
A meeting of civilisations: The mystery of China's celtic mummies
Mar 25, 6:57am    (2 reviews)  ancient-history  http://uyghuramerican.org/articles/471/1...
Vikings did not dress the way we thought (2/27/2008)
Mar 1, 5:19pm    (15 reviews)  ancient-history  http://www.fossilscience.com/research/Vi...
Greeks, Politics and War
Dec 16, 2007 6:13pm    (2 reviews)  ancient-history  http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch09.htm
School of Mathematics and Statistics - Home
Dec 16, 2007 7:52am    (2 reviews)  ancient-history  http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/renais...
Depends on who you ask. There were dumb people then as there are now, and we have a flat earth society these days, which suggests that the several centuries long tradition is alive and well. Smart dudes in the past had a great deal figured out, but once again their ignorant contemporaries tried their best to undo it.