Fragments of Pre-History

One of the scariest science fiction-y future scenarios is Grey Goo, where artificial machines self-replicate in an out-of-control manner until all accessible matter and energy resources have been turned into...

Humanity's ancient history is mainly encoded in oral stories and artifacts, which were created by a culture that either hadn't invented or saw no need to encode their stories into...

When we read ancient stories and tales, we're seeing the lived experience of these stories through our modern paradigm filters.

When I took my first college history class, my professor told us that history began with the age of writing ~5500 years ago. Everything beyond that was anthropology. As I...