What to read if you want to know more about the world and its history
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Contrary to popular sentiment, the world is a beautiful and fascinating place. Let’s learn more about it.
Welcome to Cosmographia — histories of the earth and the stars. For the full map of posts, see here. The Geographer — Johannes Vermeer (c. 1668–1669) Public Domain. The modern world has declared an all out war upon your attention. Your phone, social media, and Netflix stand at the vanguard of this effort to squander the limited time available to you. But you want more out of life than to pass the time through idle entertainment; you want to learn. And to truly learn you must put away the short-form videos, the podcasts, the twitter threads. You must turn instead to books. Art historian…
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