Stop romanticizing pirates: They were just efficient thugs
Elected captains, clear rules and shared rewards kept their criminal enterprises running
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You’re carrying your health care early warning system is in your pocket
Your devices and AI are spotting risks to your health before they turn serious
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Why McLuhan matters now more than ever
McLuhan was right: media environments now shape thought, education and public behaviour more powerfully than content itself
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The Grenada invasion could have broken the Reagan-Thatcher relationship. It didn’t
Reagan sidelined Thatcher by invading Grenada without consulting her but the relationship survived anyway
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Dead Wrong is dead right about residential schools
Dead Wrong examines how claims about residential schools became accepted in Canada despite a lack of evidence
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Book warns the decline in marriage comes at a high cost
Andrea Mrozek and Peter Jon Mitchell, in their book I… Do?, write that the fading value of marriage is a threat to social stability
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No, Europeans didn’t invent African slavery
African slavery long predates European involvement, according to a new book
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Margaret Thatcher didn’t play the feminist game
Thatcher rejected modern feminist labels but shattered the glass ceiling anyway
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Buffalo Bill and the making of the Wild West legend
Buffalo Bill turned frontier grit into global showmanship
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The greatest Apache chief you’ve never heard of
Mangas Coloradas united a warrior nation, sought peace and paid for it with his life
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