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Hand-colored 1524 woodcut map of Tenochtitlan, a circular island city with a central walled temple precinct, causeways, canals and surrounding blue lake — NEWBERRY LIBRARY/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, PUBLIC DOMAIN [8]

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How City Design Shaped the Spread of Disease in Europe and the Pre-Columbian Americas

Before Europe’s first contact with the Americas in 1492, civilizations of the New World were subjected to small waves of disease and infection from animals in regional environments or localized parasites.

By Allan Kang

Line chart (ROC curves) of self-recognition from movement. X axis: False Positive Rate (1-Specificity), 0 to 1. Y axis: True Positive Rate (Sensitivity), 0 to 1. Many gray participant curves and a red average curve rising above the dashed diagonal chance line; mean area under the curve 0.71. — COSTE ET AL. (2021), FIG. 3A (CROPPED); CC BY 4.0 [2]

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Why Do We Care About Our Bodies After We Die?

Death is the end of conscious experience—a concept familiar to humanity. From ancient rituals to modern-day pseudoscience, civilization has always been running from the idea of never waking up again.

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A Bridge Across Disciplines: A Historical Study of Sociophysics

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