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Links to useful resources around the web.





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_the_First_Qin_Emperor The first fragments of warriors and bronze arrowheads were discovered by Yang Zhifa, his five brothers, and Wang Puzhi who were digging a well in March 1974 in Xiyang, a village of the Lintong county.[15][16] At a depth of around two meters, they found hardened dirt, then red earthenware, […]

Terracotta Warriors










Seowon Korea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seowon Seowon (Korean: 서원; Hanja: 書院) were the most common educational institutions of Korea during the mid- to late Joseon Dynasty. They were private institutions, and combined the functions of a Confucian shrine and a preparatory school. In educational terms, the seowon were primarily occupied with preparing students for the […]

Seowon Korea


History.gov History Hub Archive
https://historyhub.history.gov/welcome A support community managed by the National Archives for researchers, citizen historians, archival professionals, and open government advocates What is History Hub? History Hub is a crowdsourcing platform sponsored by the National Archives. It is a place to ask questions, share information, work together, and find people based on […]

History.gov History Hub Archive




Sacsayhuaman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacsayhuam%C3%A1n Saqsaywaman,[1][2] which can be spelled many different ways [3] (possibly from Quechua language, waman falcon[4] or variable hawk)[5], is a citadel on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco, Peru, the historic capital of the Inca Empire. Sections were first built by the Killke culture about 1100; they […]

Sacsayhuaman Peru



Liberapay Monetization Paywall
https://liberapay.com/ People who contribute to the commons need you to support their work. Building free software, spreading free knowledge, these things take time and cost money, not only to do the initial work, but also to maintain it over time. Liberapay’s recurrent donations system is designed to provide a stable […]

Liberapay Creator Monetization Paywall


Tetris Kids Game
https://tetris.com/play-tetris “By embracing our universal desire to create order out of chaos, the Tetris® game provides intellectual sport that combines continuous fun with mental stimulation. As one of the most recognizable and influential video game brands in the world, it’s no wonder why there are hundreds of millions of Tetris products being played, worn, and […]

Tetris



Code Academy Free Coding Lessons
https://www.codecademy.com/catalog/subject/all About Codecademy Codecademy is an education company. But not one in the way you might think. We’re committed to building the best learning experience inside and out, making Codecademy the best place for our team to learn, teach, and create the online learning experience of the future. Education is […]

Code Academy Free Coding Lessons





https://www.muckrock.com/ “File, track, and share public records requests. MuckRock is a non-profit, collaborative news site that brings together journalists, researchers, activists, and regular citizens to request, analyze, and share government documents, making politics more transparent and democracies more informed. The site provides a repository of hundreds of thousands of pages […]

MuckRock FOIA Public Records Requests Archive










Not the Babylon Bee News
https://notthebee.com/ Not the Bee is a humor-based news, opinion, and entertainment site from the creators of The Babylon Bee… Like the name suggests, it’ll feature some absurd and hilarious (but real) news that seems like it should definitely be satire.   It’ll also have opinions, videos, personalities, memes, viral stuff, […]

Not the Babylon Bee News



Chaos Gets A Bad Rap
As it turns out, the nature of the physical world favors the free movement of people to self-organize and self-govern without the interference of external command-and-control structures … … politicians routinely chisel into stone thousands of new laws each year on countless promises that they can improve societal conditions. And […]

Chaos Gets A Bad Rap




Mullvad privacy TOR Browser
Mullvad Browser When you visit a website, you can be identified and tracked through your IP address, third-party cookies, all kinds of tracking scripts, and through so called browser fingerprints. That’s why masking your IP address is not enough to stop the data collection. However, by using a trustworthy VPN […]

Mullvad Browser


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Baldachin St. Peter’s Baldachin (Italian: Baldacchino di San Pietro, L’Altare di Bernini) is a large Baroque sculpted bronze canopy, technically called a ciborium or baldachin, over the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, the city-state and papal enclave surrounded by Rome, Italy. The baldachin is at the […]

St. Peter’s Baldachin Vatican City


















Brave Privacy Crypto Wallet Browser
Brave Privacy Crypto Wallet Browser You deserve a better Internet. So we reimagined what a browser should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get unmatched speed, security and privacy by blocking trackers. Earn rewards by opting into our privacy-respecting ads and help give publishers back their fair share […]

Brave Privacy Cryptocurrency Wallet Browser







HowMuch.net Understanding Money in Visualizations and Infographics
https://howmuch.net/ HowMuch.net was born with one mission: “Understanding Money.” We create unique, beautiful, compelling, and easy-to-understand guides and visualizations to help people make better financial decisions. By turning complicated economic & financial matters into digestible visuals accompanied by insightful articles, we help people become better informed about financial facts that […]

HowMuch.net Understanding Money in Infographics and Visualizations




Wikibooks Wikijunior
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior The aim of this project is to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12. These books are richly illustrated with photographs, diagrams, sketches, and original drawings. Wikijunior books are produced by a worldwide community of writers, teachers, students, and young people all working together. The […]

WikiBooks WikiJunior


The Babylon Bee Satire News
https://babylonbee.com/ The Babylon Bee is the world’s best satire site, totally inerrant in all its truth claims. We write satire about Christian stuff, political stuff, and everyday life.   The Babylon Bee was created ex nihilo on the eighth day of the creation week, exactly 6,000 years ago. We have […]

Babylon Bee Satire News




Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
https://www.libertarianism.org/encyclopedia/declaration-rights-man-citizen from the Encyclopedia of Libertarianism @ Libertarianism.org On August 26, 1789, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was adopted by the French National Assembly, which also was known as the Constituent Assembly, owing to its self-appointed task of framing a constitution for the French […]

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen




Know Your Meme History
https://knowyourmeme.com/ Know Your Meme is a site that researches and documents Internet memes and viral phenomena. Founded in December of 2008, Know Your Meme’s research is handled by an independent professional editorial and research staff and community members. In three years of its existence, the site grew to reach more […]

Know Your Meme History






https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law Goodhart’s law is an adage named after economist Charles Goodhart, which has been phrased by Marilyn Strathern as “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” One way in which this can occur is individuals trying to anticipate the effect of a policy and […]

Goodhart’s Law








WikiVersity Open Source Learning Projects and Resources
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. We invite teachers, students, and researchers to join us in creating open educational resources and […]

WikiVersity Open Source Learning Projects and Resources






Source: Josh Begley and Jeremy Scahill for The Intercept This is a labyrinth with 12 entrances and no exit. It is built on a cache of documents provided to The Intercept by a source within the intelligence community. Operators can watch their targets for hours, often from air-conditioned rooms, until they receive the order […]

Drones: A Visual Glossary


Mozu Tombs, Japan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozu_Tombs The Mozu Tombs (百舌鳥古墳群, Mozu kofungun) are a group of megalithic tombs in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Originally consisting of more than 100 tombs, only less than 50% of the key-hole, round and rectangular tombs remain.

Mozu Tombs Japan






ProtonMail Encrypted Email
https://protonmail.com/ Swiss PrivacyData Security and NeutralityProtonMail is incorporated in Switzerland and all our servers are located in Switzerland. This means all user data is protected by strict Swiss privacy laws. End-to-End EncryptionAutomatic Email SecurityAll emails are secured automatically with end-to-end encryption. This means even we cannot decrypt and read your […]

ProtonMail Encrypted Email
















New Discourses: "Pursuing the light of objective truth in subjective darkness." Articles and editorials, videos, podcast website and media group.
New Discourses: “Pursuing the light of objective truth in subjective darkness.” Articles and editorials, videos, podcast website and media group. Welcome to New Discourses! We like to think of this place as a home for the politically homeless, especially for those who feel like they’ve been displaced from their political […]

New Discourses




Moms for Liberty is for unifying, educating and empowering parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government.
https://www.momsforliberty.org/ “Moms for Liberty welcomes all that have a desire to stand up for parental rights at all levels of government. Our founders are Tiffany and Tina, moms on a mission to stoke the fires of liberty.  As former school board members, they witnessed how short-sighted and destructive policies directly […]

Moms for Liberty







Nassim Taleb's Fooled By Randomness
https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/ Author of the INCERTO a philosophical and practical essay on uncertainty (Skin In the Game, Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and The Bed of Procrustes), a (so far) 5-volume”investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk,and decision making when we don’t understand the world, expressed in […]

Nassim Taleb’s Fooled By Randomness





Michael Scheuer's Non-Intervention
http://www.non-intervention2.com/ Michael F. Scheuer (born 1952) is a former intelligence officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, American blogger, author, foreign policy critic, political analyst, and former adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Peace and Security Studies. One assignment during his 22-year career was serving as Chief of the Bin […]

Michael Scheuer’s Non-Intervention



KrisAnne Hall
https://krisannehall.com/ About KrisAnne Hall KrisAnne is now the president of Liberty First University and travels the country teaching the foundational principles of Liberty and our Constitutional Republic. KrisAnne is the author of 6 books on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, she also has a nationally syndicated radio show and […]

KrisAnne Hall, Constitutional Attorney







Source: ‘Ring the Alarm: Laura Poitras Discusses Suing the US Government’ by Marlow Stern for The Daily Beast The Oscar-winning director of Citizenfour opens up about NSA spying, Chelsea Manning, Obama’s ‘terrible legacy,’ and more. Let’s talk about your blockbuster AT&T/NSA story in the Times. Since it came from the […]

Laura Poitras Print Interview 8-18-15