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February 2024

Learning languages
I was learning the Chinese language since three years ago, but, due to my slow progress, thought to pick up another in order to see if my slowness in…
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Eharding
Why the BRICS are real
If one looks at a list of countries by GDP (without price level adjustment), the top countries which do not have a defense pact with the US (or…
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Eharding
Review of How Not to Die by Michael Greger and Gene Stone
The book is written in a breezy style and is filled with speculative, if intriguing health claims. The phrase “in a petri dish” appears 28 times…
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Eharding

January 2024

December 2023

Review of The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating by Walter Willett and P.J. Skerrett
FOLIC ACID If there is one message this book hits hardest, it is the above. Other than the disdain for low-fat diets and potatoes, the above phrase is…
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Eharding
Review of "The Lost Majority" by Sean Trende
In this book, Sean Trende pours cold water over “permanent partisan majority” theories. He argues that party successes on the presidential and…
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Eharding

October 2023

Review of "33 Questions about American History You're Not Supposed to Ask" by Tom Woods
Tom Woods has undoubtedly written one of the better books of the “US history questions you’re not supposed to ask” genre (particularly due to his rather…
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Eharding

September 2023

Eharding on the fall of the Roman Empire, Part XII/XII: from the killing of Aetius to the Arab Conquest
SOURCES: Sidonius, Theodosian Code (Novels), Victor of Vita, Priscus (fragments), Justinian Code, Marius of Avenches, Hydatius, Cassiodorus, Eugeppius…
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Eharding
Eharding on the fall of the Roman Empire, Part XI/XII: rise of the Sueves, rise of Attila
Seeing the Romans concentrated on the Gallic front, troubled by the Hispanic front, and unconcerned with the African front, Gaiseric decided to seize…
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Eharding
Eharding on the fall of the Roman Empire, Part X/XII: Constantius III, the settlement of the Visigoths, and the migration of the Vandals
Amazingly enough, the Ravenna government would actually mostly end up recovering from the 405-410 catastrophes thanks to the exceptional leadership of…
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Eharding
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