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James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
Our lives, our histories and our prehistories are defined less by the seamless accumulation of everyday events than by jarring dislocations that seem to come out of nowhere. Cataclysms—think 9/11, or ...
One early morning in Tokyo, in 2005, anthropologist Hugh Raffles was shaken awake by an earthquake. His hotel room overlooked an office building; through long windows, he saw people standing frozen in ...