The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Story
From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we go—and what might we find?
Patterns recur through various mythologies: floods, tricksters, battles with monsters, creation and apocalypse. Some scholars believe there is a common source—and hope to find it.
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Thomas A. Durkin, Civil Liberties Lawyer for the Reviled, Dies at 78
Farewell to a comrade-in-arms, a fierce advocate, a fellow critical philosopher, a man of faith and ethics: Thomas Anthony Durkin. Your life and your struggles will guide us now. May we live up to them and to your memory. Farewell.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/u...
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anthropologist at uc davis.
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author of SHAMANISM: THE TIMELESS RELIGION (knopf + allen lane).
Prof. Paglayan at UCSanDiego; Non-Resident Fellow at CGDev.
Author of "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education."
I write and teach about politics and education.
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Professor of Bioethics, Emeritus, Princeton University.
Cognitive scientist, writer, podcaster. Interested in the diversity of communication & cognition. Language, gesture, concepts, time, space, metaphor.
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Professor @ Boston U, History & Philosophy of Science—esp Philosophy of Geosciences, Director Phi-Geo Research Group, Assoc @ Harvard U. Hist Sci, Radcliffe Fellow Alum. Settler, wife, & mother. 📸s my crappy phone.
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Political Science at Columbia, Editor Post-Soviet Affairs, Autocracy, democracy, and the NBA. Most recently, Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia and Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology at WSU studying how people work together to respond to environmental change and infectious disease across E. Africa. Interdisciplinary and plays well with others. He/him
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associate professor of political science at Ohio State University // global justice, supply chains, populism, climate change, critical theory, etc // all tweets (skeets?) produced accidentally by having my phone in a pants pocket while I walk the dog
Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, and popular medicine.
Political theorist at Toronto Metropolitan University. Author of Not Here and Words on Fire. Co-author of A Mind at Play and Rome's Last Citizen. Co-editor of Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective.
Lecturer in Psychology. Moral psychology, social cognition, & xphi. Interested in understanding moral conflict in human-animal/nature relations 🐷🍃 and bioethics 💊. Exploring innovative methods like VR.
Translator and historian working with a variety of languages (Arabic, English, Latin, Spanish, Old English, German among others).
Professor of Science, Technology, and Gender Studies @FAU; history of nuclear science; science diplomacy; author of children's book https://rentetzi.de
Senior Editor at Princeton University Press, commissioning in the social sciences. Views my own.
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