• The Ancient Greek Water Clock That Kept the Most Accurate Time for 1,800 Years

    The Ancient Greek Water Clock That Kept the Most Accurate Time for 1,800 Years
    Today, we’re surrounded by technologies we could justifiably describe as time thieves. In ancient Greece, those who wanted to know where their time was going consulted a device they called a “water thief.” The roots of the clepsydra, or water clock, go back as far as the sixteenth century BC, with evidence of such devices found in modern-day Iraq, Iran, and Egypt, and more ambiguous evidence unearthed in places like India and China. The mechanism in the earliest examples t
  • Historian Timothy Snyder Teaches a Free Course on Hitler, Stalin & How “It” Can Happen Here

    Historian Timothy Snyder Teaches a Free Course on Hitler, Stalin & How “It” Can Happen Here
    When the historian Timothy Snyder left Yale for the University of Toronto in 2024, he took with him the practice of occasionally putting his course lectures online, making them available to anyone who cares to learn from them. Above, you can watch ten lectures from his recent course Hitler and Stalin Today. In this course:
    Snyder examines the Nazi and Soviet responses to the new globalized world they shared. The course begins with the colonial background that made totalitarianism possible, and

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