Earth: Civilization Maps – Cartography

Geology is about documenting the landscape we see and how that is connected with earlier ones. It is about the features of the land, height, depth and breathtaking breadth.

Mapping populations is more fluid – patterns of movements, migration, defining borders and then the space within Public Works and Monuments the testaments to the paperwork.

Cartography the means by which empires were engineered and Propagandized. There’s a joke in there about small units representing larger things, but also a concern that International Standards and Units be so and that the map of the world is accurate and not politically inflated.

How Civilizations Rise and Fall: On their Paperwork

We do know who built the pyramids, the government scribes kept payroll records. Egypt, Rome and Greece are the best understood of the ancient world because they are the only three that developed government writing – legalese and contract – … Continue reading →

The Political Memes 2013-15

a multinational collection that does in fact, show an overarching global theme   Disaster Mitigation begins with not electing them to start with, eh?                                 … Continue reading →

From Primate to Corporate Culture

What Monkeys Can Teach Us About Human Behavior“, Michael Michalko (MM) described an experiment involving five monkeys, a ladder, and a banana. Descriptions of this experiment can also be found on the Internet, as a result of this story being … Continue reading →

The World of Religion

  The thing that bothers me about these kind of break out maps is that Jews, Christians and Muslims are actually the same religion: The Abrahamic Trilogy. Worse, these charts often separate Catholic from Christian. This is part of why … Continue reading →

The Class War: Culture vs Gym

Across Canada, yoga has became part of the Health, Exercise and Fitness Industry and part of physical education in grade and high schools. To calm the public/parental fears of “religion” (specially but not saying it, Someone Else’s Religion) being pushed … Continue reading →

Community Solutions: Feeding The Homeless

There have been many attempts made to address homelessness and food insecure poverty – Food Banks, Soup Kitchens, Temporary Shelter Societies – and all that’s happened is that a charity industry has developed social theories that don’t impact in practice. … Continue reading →

  

Societies to Civs and Back Again

About Oracles who speak in riddles and prophesies is that they actual speak absolute truth poetically “A kingdom will change hands” thus spoken Won or Lost, decided by whomever paid the token How Civilizations Rise and Fall: On their Paperwork We … Continue reading →

Canada is the Only Nation Safe to Laugh At

Because we are big enough to take a joke, small enough to be neighborly but big enough to be taken seriously. The Sun Set on The British Empire – and the Empirical age of Colonialism ended with industrialism – the … Continue reading →

The Communication Arts: Hieroglyphs to Heraldry

Symbolic Communication forms; From Professionals to For The Public Cuniform, the first portable writing system, from inventory and governance Propaganda, current events of historic importance and our divine selves write wall large The Ancients Peaked with Rome, who imported Greek … Continue reading →

Informing the Information Management Age: Archivability

The Bletchley Circle – Clerical Women with Puzzle, Pattern and Data skills. Eidetic Memory forms, high analytical ability with a dash of math skills. Trivia, Data and contextual cognition and retention, wordplay, puzzles and fun with numbers – information management, … Continue reading →

Civilization 1.0: Ice Aged

  Graham Hancock is an admitted outlier in archaeology, because he is an outsider trying to tell studies and working professionals they are wrong, while he sells many many books to the public. He is a sociologist by education and … Continue reading →

   

The Civilization Equalizer: Rubble

After 5 days under rubble, Nepalese woman rescued by Israeli-led team In painstaking, 10-hour operation, Krishna Devi Khadka, 24, pulled to safety from under collapsed hotel; young boy also rescued.. timesofisrael.com Last survivor pulled from WTC rebuilds life, recalls horror … Continue reading →

the relative physical size of a nation, the size of population, the technology mastered and/or military mustered – the culture codified and commodified

All Giza Pyramids

 

The Atlantis Myth: The Power of Words

The ONLY story of Atlantis comes to us from Timaeus, a Socratic dialogue, written in about 360 BCE by Plato. It is the only reference until modern eras when people started looking for possible sites for a society that likely … Continue reading →

Out of Africa: Risen in Turkey

The Gobekli Tepe site is a huge temple with nothing so far to indicate permanent settlements and it’s the oldest yet known human construction and it’s 12,000 years old. Stonehenge is a mere 6,000, older than we thought it was … Continue reading →

 

 

 

   

The Ancient Civs of South America

Egypt Rome and Greece Oh My! the Mediterranean Trio, as if they were the only ones back then doing intensive landscaping and monument building. The Americas: True North Canada, due south through the USA form North America. Inhabitants came down … Continue reading →

     

Easter Island cut off it’s own head

Regardless of it’s infamous statues having bodies, eh? http://mentalfloss.com/article/29191/easter-island-heads-have-bodies   They depleted the natural resources of the island whether trees were used to move the stones. the trees were depleted and the people died out or disbursed. Leaving behind these … Continue reading →

Dabblers & Doers: CivScience

Invention & Adaption The Science of Civilization – Towards a Rational World Science is a process of discovery using a set methodology, developed over many cultures as practiced by their best researchers, designers and artisans. What was reliable maintained and … Continue reading →

We have to stop dropping bombs

let’s solve the terrorism and migrant problem by no more bombs being dropped to displace people and destroy infrastructure, which is the literal concrete civilization Damascus is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Syria and other Mediterranean … Continue reading →

The Tool Job

If you have a hammer, all you see is nails. Sometimes, they are screws.   A Guide of Manual Handbooks Optimist/Pessimist vs Positive/Negative Pessimism and optimisms are both frameworks to assess the world and arrive at solutions or conclusions.Considering the above … Continue reading →

Why is this underwater now?
because there used to be 3 miles of ice on the North American continent
then…. it melted and this disappeared under the water

Is pseudoarchaeology racist?

The Great Serpent Mound (Ohio, USA) (Source) A common observation made by critics of Bad Archaeologists is that so many of their ideas have an underlying and unspoken racist assumption: the benighted savages of distant continents and ancient times could…

Agoraphobic Philosopher Ponders Civilization

Why are Civilizations those that leave their administrative records and cultural products housed in vast public works infrastruture and societies those that leave their mark on natural objects shaped by their needs and cultural uses

 

Civilization: a reboot and re-think

        Gobekli Tepe. oldest temple 12,000 years…. predates Stonehenge by 7000 years and is more complex we might have to conclude religion started civilization even predating agriculture, as there is yet to be any evidence of worker’s … Continue reading →

Typhoon Haiyan: Officials fear death toll could reach 10,000
Officials in the Philippines feared the death toll could climb to 10,000 in the province of Leyte, as a new day dawned on the Pacific islands ravaged by one of the most powerful storms ever recorded.
Read more: http://nbcnews.to/17nUKNB

Gamering: From Herd Following Nomads to Civilization

I prefer the PC versions to Console versions o games. the console versions of these games are more conquest/conquer; than the complexity of managing an actual civ on the world stage of civs that are potentially more dominant than yours … Continue reading →

Why stunts are not science

Recently, there was a tv show plan to have an anaconda swallow a man in a special suit. The snake was not compliant and the much touted show was, unsurprisingly, an epic fail.   Whatever his special suit, the crushing … Continue reading →

Science – Why Accounting for Bias is Critical

When I was a teenager, my bookshelf had a number of books by Eric Von Daniken and other such writers. The Topics varied from distortions of historical sites outside of Europe – with the more complex the outside of Europe, … Continue reading →

 

 

• Vikings vs Visigoths
• When Europe was Islamized