Let's take Southeast Asia. The last 20, 30 years has been what's called the "Asian Miracle" - fast economic growth, industrial society. It's happening all over, with one exception, which one? The Philippines is the one that can't grow, which the US has been running for 100 years. Is there a correlation? Have you read about it? It comes to mind, at least.

It's commonly assumed that the emergence of language was a key element of the great leap. We of course know very little about the sociopolitical conditions that existed at the time, but there's no scenario I can think of that suggests how a sudden change in these conditions could have led to the emergence of language.

Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences.

It doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover.

For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.

The communists were mainly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish anarchists. Not just in Catalonia - the communist armies mainly destroyed the collectives elsewhere.

Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.