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Long-nourished pet half-crank notion: the late 19th and early 20th centuries were, in fact, a golden age of mythopoesis; it's just that the mythopoets were all academically trained intellectuals, writing for a newly-arrived mass audience that wasn't just literate but also schooled.  So the myths took the form of theories and abstractions, rather than conventional narratives about people & gods.  (Exhibit A: Freud.)  People who consciously tried to create _narrative_ modern myths were simply behind the times.
If I ever try to seriously write up this unholy chimera of Gellner, Flynn and Sperber, I've gone emeritus and should be gently dosed with dried frog pills.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/how-authentic-is-modern-yoga-by-michelle-goldberg/">
    <title>PowellsBooks.Blog – How Authentic Is Modern Yoga? - Powell's Books</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-25T02:16:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/how-authentic-is-modern-yoga-by-michelle-goldberg/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It turns out that the physical practice now known as "yoga" in the West was largely created by Indian nationalists in the early 20th century. Seeking an authentically Indian version of what was then called "physical culture" — basically, physical fitness — they drew on medieval hatha yoga and traditional Indian wrestling exercises, but also on British army calisthenics and, according to Singleton, on the once-famous work of a Danish gymnastics trainer named Neils Bukh. In The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace, N. E. Sjoman describes the yoga of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya — Devi's teacher and one of the most influential yoga masters in history — as a "syncretism," borrowing techniques from a gymnastic text "but presenting it under the name of yoga.""]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read books:noted yoga history_of_ideas cultural_exchange historical_myths uses_of_the_past goldberg.michelle</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/10/a-call-for-help">
    <title>A Call for Help - The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-24T15:36:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/10/a-call-for-help</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>crime historical_myths debunking moral_psychology journalism natural_history_of_truthiness why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9d247b814907/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:debunking"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/1697">
    <title>IDEALS @ Illinois: The Most Influential Paper Gerard Salton Never Wrote</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-13T13:22:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/1697</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Gerard Salton is often credited with developing the vector space model
 (VSM) for information retrieval (IR). Citations to Salton give the impression
 that the VSM must have been articulated as an IR model sometime between
 1970 and 1975. However, the VSM as it is understood today evolved over a
 longer time period than is usually acknowledged, and an articulation of the
 model and its assumptions did not appear in print until several years after
 those assumptions had been criticized and alternative models proposed. An
 often cited overview paper titled “A Vector Space Model for Information
 Retrieval” (alleged to have been published in 1975) does not exist, and
 citations to it represent a confusion of two 1975 articles, neither of which
 were overviews of the VSM as a model of information retrieval. Until the
 late 1970s, Salton did not present vector spaces as models of IR generally
 but rather as models of specifi c computations. Citations to the phantom
 paper refl ect an apparently widely held misconception that the operational
 features and explanatory devices now associated with the VSM must have
 been introduced at the same time it was fi rst proposed as an IR model."]]></description>
<dc:subject>information_retrieval data_mining history_of_technology historical_myths epidemiology_of_representations have_read to:blog in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6b06d138bf22/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:history_of_technology"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:epidemiology_of_representations"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to:blog"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://io9.com/reality-check-most-scientists-never-believed-in-globa-1617925806">
    <title>Reality Check: Most Scientists Never Believed In &quot;Global Cooling&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-10T16:40:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://io9.com/reality-check-most-scientists-never-believed-in-globa-1617925806</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>debunking historical_myths climate_change running_dogs_of_reaction history_of_science</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e9234d3916be/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:climate_change"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1953603?uid=3739864&amp;uid=2129&amp;uid=2&amp;uid=70&amp;uid=4&amp;uid=3739256&amp;sid=21104288288943">
    <title>Gunnell, &quot;The Myth of the Tradition&quot; [JSTOR: The American Political Science Review, Vol. 72, No. 1 (Mar., 1978), pp. 122-134]</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-11T13:27:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1953603?uid=3739864&amp;uid=2129&amp;uid=2&amp;uid=70&amp;uid=4&amp;uid=3739256&amp;sid=21104288288943</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Leo Strauss's epic rendition of the history of Western political philosophy has been a principal factor in the establishment and perpetuation of the myth of the tradition or the belief that the conventional series of classic works from Plato to Nietzsche represents the development of modern political ideas and constitutes the core of an inherited pattern of thought which, in turn, provides the basic context for interpreting particular texts. Much of the scholarly commentary on the history of political philosophy has been directed toward a critique of contemporary political thought and action, and the idea of the tradition has served as a vehicle for this historical etiology. In Strauss's argument, the concept of the tradition plays a strategic rhetorical function, but the myth of the tradition in its various forms has become a pervasive regulative assumption in both teaching and research."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB history_of_ideas political_philosophy strauss.leo arendt.hannah historical_myths</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:84e8326b8ac0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10193.html">
    <title>White, D.G.: The &lt;i&gt;Yoga Sutra of Patanjali&lt;/i&gt;: A Biography. (eBook and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-11T01:44:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10193.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Consisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practice. As David Gordon White demonstrates in this groundbreaking study, both of these assumptions are incorrect. Virtually forgotten in India for hundreds of years and maligned when it was first discovered in the West, the Yoga Sutra has been elevated to its present iconic status--and translated into more than forty languages--only in the course of the past forty years.
"White retraces the strange and circuitous journey of this confounding work from its ancient origins down through its heyday in the seventh through eleventh centuries, its gradual fall into obscurity, and its modern resurgence since the nineteenth century. First introduced to the West by the British Orientalist Henry Thomas Colebrooke, the Yoga Sutra was revived largely in Europe and America, and predominantly in English. White brings to life the improbable cast of characters whose interpretations--and misappropriations--of the Yoga Sutra led to its revered place in popular culture today. Tracing the remarkable trajectory of this enigmatic work, White's exhaustively researched book also demonstrates why the yoga of India's past bears little resemblance to the yoga practiced today."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted history_of_religion history_of_ideas yoga cultural_exchange wisdom_of_the_east historical_myths</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:2afe227d0b3c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://global.oup.com/academic/product/greco-scythian-art-and-the-birth-of-eurasia-9780199682331?cc=us&amp;lang=en#">
    <title>Greco-Scythian Art and the Birth of Eurasia - Caspar Meyer - Oxford University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-21T18:08:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://global.oup.com/academic/product/greco-scythian-art-and-the-birth-of-eurasia-9780199682331?cc=us&amp;lang=en#</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Since their discovery in nineteenth-century Russia, Greco-Scythian artefacts have been interpreted as masterpieces by Greek craftsmen working according to the tastes of the Scythian nomads and creating realistic depictions of their barbarian patrons. Drawing on a broad array of evidence from archaeology, art history and epigraphy to contextualize Greco-Scythian metalwork in ancient society, this volume confronts the deep confusion between ancient representation and historical reality in contemporary engagements with classical culture. It argues that the strikingly life-like figure scenes of Greco-Scythian art were integral to the strategies of a cosmopolitan elite who legitimated its economic dominance by asserting an intermediary cultural position between the steppe inland and the urban centres on the shores of the Black Sea. Investigating the reception of this 'Eurasian' self-image in tsarist Russia, Meyer unravels the complex relationship between ancient ideology and modern imperial visions, and its legacy in current conceptions of cultural interaction and identity.
"With a synthesis of material evidence never yet attempted, this volume breaks significant new ground in explaining the archaeology of Scythia and its ties to inner Asia and classical Greece, the intersection between modern museum display and visual knowledge, and the intellectual history of classics in Russia and the West."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted ancient_history cultural_exchange historical_myths history_of_ideas art_history reception_history archaeology scythia russia central_asia</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://abstractfactory.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-much-education-do-computing.html">
    <title>The Abstract Factory: How much education do computing innovators usually have?</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-22T18:11:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://abstractfactory.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-much-education-do-computing.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>historical_myths computers debunking class_struggles_in_america education</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c09dfd379507/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://dsquareddigest.wordpress.com/2002/12/23/86435321/">
    <title>Shine Your Light on Me | D-Squared Digest</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-05T04:11:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dsquareddigest.wordpress.com/2002/12/23/86435321/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>economics market_failures_in_everything coase.ronald dsquared historical_myths</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3e0ae86bdcec/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:market_failures_in_everything"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:coase.ronald"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:dsquared"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324">
    <title>Why two spaces after a period isn’t wrong (or, the lies typographers tell about history) - Heraclitean River</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-24T14:07:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The quotes from the earlier editions of the Chicago Manual are particularly nice.]]></description>
<dc:subject>typography debunking evisceration historical_myths via:arthegall have_read to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8366524130a9/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:arthegall"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item5758682/?site_locale=en_US">
    <title>After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West - Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-23T20:14:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item5758682/?site_locale=en_US</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Not being of the West; being behind the West; not being modern enough; not being developed or industrialized, secular, civilized, Christian, transparent, or democratic – these descriptions have all served to stigmatize certain states through history. Drawing on constructivism as well as the insights of social theorists and philosophers, After Defeat demonstrates that stigmatization in international relations can lead to a sense of national shame, as well as auto-Orientalism and inferior status. Ayşe Zarakol argues that stigmatized states become extra-sensitive to concerns about status, and shape their foreign policy accordingly. The theoretical argument is supported by a detailed historical overview of central examples of the established/outsider dichotomy throughout the evolution of the modern states system, and in-depth studies of Turkey after the First World War, Japan after the Second World War, and Russia after the Cold War."

- Let me add that this is an _interesting_ subject for a book by a professor at Washington _and Lee_ University, _Virginia_.  (i.e., there's an obvious fourth case...)]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted ideology orientalism comparative_history turkey japan russia post-soviet_life historical_myths history_of_ideas uses_of_the_past</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://everything2.com/title/solvitur+ambulando">
    <title>solvitur ambulando - Everything2.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-03T03:39:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://everything2.com/title/solvitur+ambulando</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A mystery noticed while driving from Bethesda to Pittsburgh half-explained: "solvitur ambulando" is not, indeed, from St. Augustine, _pace_ at least one church.  But how did the phrase get attached to him, of all people?]]></description>
<dc:subject>historical_myths epidemiology_of_representations solvitur_ambulando augustine_of_hippo</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9972658648d0/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://inthesetimes.com/duly-noted/entry/13960/the_kiss_wasnt_just_a_kiss/">
    <title>“The Kiss” Wasn’t Just a Kiss - Duly Noted</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-08T11:41:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://inthesetimes.com/duly-noted/entry/13960/the_kiss_wasnt_just_a_kiss/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well, that's depressing.]]></description>
<dc:subject>sexism photos historical_myths</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.fakebuddhaquotes.com/">
    <title>Fake Buddha Quotes | &quot;Nope, I didn't say that.&quot; — The Buddha</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-09T20:03:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.fakebuddhaquotes.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>buddhism historical_myths natural_history_of_truthiness via:?</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~junliu/">
    <title>Home page for Jun Liu</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-29T23:00:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~junliu/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Interesting quotes from my friend Ying Nian Wu's website:
"The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities. --- J. C. Maxwell
"What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes for the photon absorptions within our eyes. --- H. Helmholtz"

Here's the thing: the second quote is _unquestionably_ bogus.  Helmholtz died in 1894.  The word "photon" was not coined until 1926.  It can't even be a modernizing mis-translation, since the idea of light quanta wasn't invented until 1900, and while there were older particle theories of light, they'd died out in the early 1800s, and Helmholtz specifically believed in, and used, a wave theory of light.  Don't even get me started on the word "compute" here.  The most that could be said of this is that this is a reasonable updating of _some_ of Helmholtz's ideas about perception.

Googling, I see that this also shows up (unsourced) in multiple lectures by E. Candes (e.g., http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~candes/acm116/Handouts/acm116_lecture1.pdf).  It would be interesting to know who originated this.

ETA 1: Google Books turns up no instances of the exact sentence, or even of reasonably long fragments.

ETA 2: W.B. has a hypothesis as to origins: http://wbmh.blogspot.com/2012/08/aliens-using-evil-waves-to-destroy.html]]></description>
<dc:subject>history_of_ideas historical_myths helmholtz.hermann perception bad_scholarship</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/08/the-myths-of-avalon.html">
    <title>The myths of Avalon - Charlie's Diary</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-26T19:39:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/08/the-myths-of-avalon.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>celts historical_myths the_myth_of_matriarchal_prehistory the_nightmare_from_which_we_are_trying_to_awake medieval_european_history</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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    <title>Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War? - Magazine - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-06T22:27:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/02/why-do-so-few-blacks-study-the-civil-war/8831/#</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>coates.ta-nehisi american_history us_civil_war uses_of_the_past historical_myths the_american_dilemma</dc:subject>
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    <title>2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse by Matthew Restall - Powell's Books</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-22T19:09:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781442206090-0</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Did the Maya really predict that the world would end in December of 2012? If not, how and why has 2012 millenarianism gained such popular appeal? In this deeply knowledgeable book, two leading historians of the Maya answer these questions in a succinct, readable, and accessible style. Matthew Restall and Amara Solari introduce, explain, and ultimately demystify the 2012 phenomenon. They begin by briefly examining the evidence for the prediction of the world's end in ancient Maya texts and images, analyzing precisely what Maya priests did and did not prophesize. The authors then convincingly show how 2012 millenarianism has roots far in time and place from Maya cultural traditions, but in those of medieval and Early Modern Western Europe. Revelatory and myth-busting, while remaining firmly grounded in historical fact, this fascinating book will be essential reading as the countdown to December 21, 2012, begins." --- They're speaking here on Nov. 28th, but I suspect I won't be able to make it.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/david-graeber-on-the-invention-of-money-%E2%80%93-notes-on-sex-adventure-monomaniacal-sociopathy-and-the-true-function-of-economics.html">
    <title>David Graeber: On the Invention of Money – Notes on Sex, Adventure, Monomaniacal Sociopathy and the True Function of Economics « naked capitalism</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-13T19:57:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/david-graeber-on-the-invention-of-money-%E2%80%93-notes-on-sex-adventure-monomaniacal-sociopathy-and-the-true-function-of-economics.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have been avoiding reading Graber's book, since it didn't sound like it was any advance over Polanyi's (classic!) _The Great Transformation_.  But this is great, so I'm sold.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>economic_history economic_anthropology anthropology economics money evisceration historical_myths via:jbdelong ancient_trade sumeria</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520248595">
    <title>Gentlemen and Amazons : The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861--1900 - Cynthia Eller - University of California Press</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-08T14:14:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520248595</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Gentlemen and Amazons traces the nineteenth-century genesis and development of an important contemporary myth about human origins: that of an original prehistoric matriarchy. Cynthia Eller explores the intellectual history of the myth, which arose from male scholars who mostly wanted to vindicate the patriarchal family model as a higher stage of human development. Eller tells the stories these men told, analyzes the gendered assumptions they made, and provides the necessary context for understanding how feminists of the 1970s and 1980s embraced as historical “fact” a discredited nineteenth-century idea."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>historical_myths history_of_ideas feminism matriarchy debunking books:recommended have_read downloaded</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://ipmall.info/hosted_resources/PatentHistory/posass.htm">
    <title>A Patently False Patent Myth</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-04T16:57:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ipmall.info/hosted_resources/PatentHistory/posass.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>historical_myths debunking innovation via:aaronsw social_misconstruction_of_reality</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b044baf55bd6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/11/they-have-encouraged-and-assisted-thousands-of-our-slaves/67190/">
    <title>'They Have Encouraged and Assisted Thousands of Our Slaves' - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2010-11-30T13:58:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/11/they-have-encouraged-and-assisted-thousands-of-our-slaves/67190/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_civil_war historical_myths running_dogs_of_reaction natural_history_of_truthiness</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/11/confederate-hair-tonic/66298/">
    <title>Confederate Hair Tonic - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2010-11-10T15:37:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/11/confederate-hair-tonic/66298/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["IWilliams is not actually examining the accepted scholarship which Carol Sheriff is referencing. Williams is not debating with James McPherson's ... Battle Cry of Freedom. He does not confront historian Bruce Levine's Confederate Emancipation... Instead Williams offers up--unchallenged, uncorroborated and wholly accepted--primary testimony from 150 years ago, along with two works of history both more than seventy-five years old. 
"... Williams is practicing history in the manner of a phrenologist practicing brain surgery... In raising primary sources to the level of indisputable fact, Williams employs a methodology which does not merely argue for the existence of black Confederate legions, but for UFOs, orcs, the Dover Demon, elves and magic. The sable Confederate arm is too modest. Surely, Nessie awaits. I would not demand that history remain solely the property of professionals. But I  would simply see a basic commitment to honesty from academics plying a borrowed trade...."
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<item rdf:about="http://www.springerlink.com/content/e3314q8173452345/">
    <title>An Anthropic Myth: Fred Hoyle's Carbon 12 Resonance Level - Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Volume 64, Number 6</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-25T22:24:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.springerlink.com/content/e3314q8173452345/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The case of Fred Hoyle’s prediction of a resonance state in carbon-12, unknown in 1953 when it was predicted, is often mentioned as an example of anthropic prediction. However, an investigation of the historical circumstances of the prediction and its subsequent experimental confirmation shows that Hoyle and his contemporaries did not associate the level in the carbon nucleus with life. Only in the 1980s, after the emergence of the anthropic principle, did it become common to see Hoyle’s prediction as anthropically significant. At about the same time mythical accounts of the prediction and its history began to abound. Not only has the anthropic myth no basis in historical fact, it is also doubtful if the excited levels in carbon-12 and other atomic nuclei can be used as an argument for the predictive power of the anthropic principle."
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/09/stolen-legacy/63618/">
    <title>Stolen Legacy - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2010-09-27T19:50:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/09/stolen-legacy/63618/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_civil_war coates.ta-nehisi historical_memory historical_myths the_american_dilemma</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://budiansky.blogspot.com/2010/08/constitutional-cultists.html">
    <title>Stephen Budiansky's Liberal Curmudgeon Blog: Constitutional cultists</title>
    <dc:date>2010-08-23T00:35:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://budiansky.blogspot.com/2010/08/constitutional-cultists.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Why am I not surprised?
]]></description>
<dc:subject>running_dogs_of_reaction us_politics utter_stupidity historical_myths</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/?p=652">
    <title>Feynman, Drexler, and the National Nanotechnology Initiative « Soft Machines</title>
    <dc:date>2010-01-12T14:33:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/?p=652</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Another childhood myth punctured.
]]></description>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:feynman.richard"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:debunking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:drexler.k._eric"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11113.php">
    <title>Inventing Americas Worst Family: Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael : Nathaniel Deutsch</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-21T11:40:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11113.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Chapter 1 is online, and grimly fascinating in itself.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted american_history history_of_ideas historical_myths degeneration 19th_century_history sociology class_struggles_in_america eugenics islam uses_of_the_past</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ee369a39a866/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:american_history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:history_of_ideas"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:historical_myths"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:degeneration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:19th_century_history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:sociology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:class_struggles_in_america"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:eugenics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:islam"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:uses_of_the_past"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/a-rambling-incoherent-sarah-palin-celebrates-independence-day-by-disrespecting-the-military/#comments">
    <title>A rambling, incoherent Sarah Palin celebrates Independence Day by disrespecting the troops. « The Edge of the American West</title>
    <dc:date>2009-07-05T16:59:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/a-rambling-incoherent-sarah-palin-celebrates-independence-day-by-disrespecting-the-military/#comments</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Context for "Retreat, hell . . . we’re simply attacking in another direction."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>korean_war utter_stupidity historical_myths</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:10ec2d5f2a47/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:utter_stupidity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:historical_myths"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/06/of_the_many_reckoning_that.php">
    <title>Nathan Bedford Forrest Has Beautiful Eyes - Ta-Nehisi Coates</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-18T13:28:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/06/of_the_many_reckoning_that.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I really need to read Coates's book.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>moral_psychology rationalizations historical_myths the_lies_we_tell_ourselves the_american_dilemma us_civil_war racism slavery coates.ta-nehisi identity_formation historical_memory ideology</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:43ca4c94cad2/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:rationalizations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:historical_myths"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_lies_we_tell_ourselves"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_american_dilemma"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_civil_war"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:racism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:slavery"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:coates.ta-nehisi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:identity_formation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:historical_memory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:ideology"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&amp;bookkey=371709">
    <title>Shoji Yamada: Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-04T18:56:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&amp;bookkey=371709</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the years after World War II, Westerners and Japanese alike elevated Zen to the quintessence of spirituality in Japan. Pursuing the sources of Zen as a Japanese ideal, Shoji Yamada uncovers the surprising role of two cultural touchstones: Eugen Herrigel’s Zen in the Art of Archery and the Ryoanji dry-landscape rock garden.  ... Herrigel’s book popularized ideas of Zen both in the West and in Japan. Yamada traces the prewar history of Japanese archery, reveals how Herrigel mistakenly came to understand it as a traditional practice, and explains why the Japanese themselves embraced his interpretation ... Turning to Ryoanji ... this epitome of Zen in fact bears little relation to Buddhism and is best understood in relation to Chinese myth. For much of its modern history, Ryoanji was a weedy, neglected plot; only after its allegorical role in a 1949 Ozu film was it popularly linked to Zen."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted cultural_exchange zen historical_myths japan history_of_ideas</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c1318069cb78/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:zen"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:historical_myths"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:history_of_ideas"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&amp;bookkey=398016">
    <title>Cathy Gere: Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-04T18:24:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&amp;bookkey=398016</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted minoans modernism history_of_ideas historical_myths</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:08948ee97134/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:minoans"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:modernism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:history_of_ideas"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:historical_myths"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&amp;bookkey=322215">
    <title>Peter Geschiere: The Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship, and Exclusion in Africa and Europe</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-04T18:20:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&amp;bookkey=322215</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted nationalism historical_myths netherlands cameroon</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7f24773200e6/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:historical_myths"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:netherlands"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&amp;bookkey=406261">
    <title>Ronald H. Fritze: Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science, and Pseudo-Religions</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-04T18:09:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&amp;bookkey=406261</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted psychoceramics debunking pseudoscience historical_myths pseudodoxa_epidemica pseudo-archaeology</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:648f76b40512/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:books:noted"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:psychoceramics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:debunking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:pseudoscience"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:pseudodoxa_epidemica"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:pseudo-archaeology"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/the-propagation-of-false-news-in-wartime/">
    <title>The propagation of false news in wartime. « The Edge of the American West</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-21T13:34:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/the-propagation-of-false-news-in-wartime/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Eric Rauchway describes, with excerpts, an essay by on this subject by Maurice Bloch, with illustrations from WWI.  Sounds astonishingly like Dan Sperber, only with an unfortunate collectivist overlay.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>war cultural_transmission rauchway.eric historiography historical_myths bloch.maurice rumors epidemiology_of_representations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:633e4d04d7de/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:rauchway.eric"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:historiography"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:historical_myths"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:bloch.maurice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:rumors"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:epidemiology_of_representations"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=571">
    <title>Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » In My Day…</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-23T15:43:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=571</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["the stories of decline in intellectual or scholarly standards that are profoundly anti-intellectual or unscholarly in their content and claims."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>academia education humanities utter_stupidity evisceration historical_myths</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6a07028ad830/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:humanities"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:utter_stupidity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:evisceration"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.renneslechateau.it/rennes-le-chateau.php?sezione=studi&amp;id=arg">
    <title>ARG as a new model for Rennes-le-Château phenomenon</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-13T12:20:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.renneslechateau.it/rennes-le-chateau.php?sezione=studi&amp;id=arg</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Although some skeptical researcher labels them as 'bullshit', there's probably something more, from a psychological point of view, justifying their strong appeal." Or: _The Da Vinci Code_ as the "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" we deserve.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>fraud historical_myths alternate_reality_games occultism holy_blood.holy_grail_bullshit ha_ha_only_serious consumed_by_fiction via:tozier</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b2f8fb639d52/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:alternate_reality_games"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:occultism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:holy_blood.holy_grail_bullshit"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:ha_ha_only_serious"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:consumed_by_fiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:tozier"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=254">
    <title>SPLCenter.org: White Lies</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-30T12:56:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=254</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A leading Civil War historian debunks many of the myths of the old South being circulated by neo-Confederate ideologues"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>the_american_dilemma racist_idiocy american_history historical_myths utter_stupidity us_civil_war via:abiola simpsons.brooks</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ed26fd7e9993/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:racist_idiocy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:american_history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:historical_myths"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:utter_stupidity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_civil_war"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:abiola"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:simpsons.brooks"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/53200?fulltext=true&amp;print=yes">
    <title>American Scientist Online - Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-09T13:33:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/53200?fulltext=true&amp;print=yes</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["New evidence points to an alternative explanation for a civilization's collapse": viz., rats, and the white man.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>easter_island archaeology ecology historical_myths hunt.terry</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ded7afd0689c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:archaeology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:ecology"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/12/21/woodrow_wilson_federal_reserve/index.html">
    <title>The unhappiness of Woodrow Wilson</title>
    <dc:date>2007-12-21T23:42:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/12/21/woodrow_wilson_federal_reserve/index.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[No, Woodrow Wilson did not regret creating the Federal Reserve.  Yes, the supposed statement to that effect circulated among wingnuts is a fabrication, stitched together from unrelated statements and whole cloth.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>wilson.woodrow debunking historical_myths federal_reserve libertarianism running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:50954754aced/</dc:identifier>
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