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  • 1 week ago | bigthink.com | Frank Jacobs

    The most surprising and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every week, for free. For about 250 years at the beginning of our era, two ancient superpowers coexisted at opposite ends of the vast Eurasian land mass. The Roman Empire and China’s Han Dynasty were too far apart to be in direct contact, but they did know of each other. The Romans called China Seres, the mysterious land where silk came from. The Chinese had vague notions of Daqin, a mighty empire way out west.

  • 2 weeks ago | myprivacy.dpgmedia.nl | Frank Jacobs

  • 1 month ago | bigthink.com | Frank Jacobs

    The most surprising and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every week, for free. The mountains of northern Laos are beautiful, but tough to negotiate. By car, it can easily take 15 hours to drive the 373 miles (600 km) of winding roads that separate the capital Vientiane from the town of Boten on the Chinese border.

  • 2 months ago | bigthink.com | Frank Jacobs

    A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people The size of your standard PDF matches the paper in your printer: A4 in most of the world, “letter-sized” in the U.S. and Canada. But standards are not limits. The biggest possible size for a PDF, it has long been said, is a square with sides 237.7 miles (381 km) long, for a total area of 56,047 square miles (145,161 km2).

  • Mar 3, 2025 | bigthink.com | Frank Jacobs

    A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people “The quality of mercy is not strained,” argues Portia in The Merchant of Venice, meaning there should be no limits to being kind and forgiving. But 21st-century culture wars are no Shakespeare play. These days, mercy is a finite resource, and the question is how strained the quality (and quantity) of yours is, for it might reveal your tribal affiliation: liberal or conservative.

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