DODO is excellent. His co-author does a great job of pulling out of his own butt when he threatens to disappear up there, and the plotting and character work is incredible.
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Timeline doesn’t match up. The Wall is thousands of years old. The Doom happened 100 years before the conquest, therefore 400 years before the “present day” of the main books.
That’s discussed in the article. Believe it or not, even Yellowstone is too small to actually split the peninsula in half. Its why he posits that it was already split in half, millions of years before, via meteor strike, and that was just conflated with the Doom in oral histories.
Much like the war between Judeo-Christian figures God and Lucifer, the belief is that R’hllor has been in an everlasting battle with the Great Other, an evil god of ice and death.
On what planet is Norse mythology more popular in American pop culture than Greek?
The books explain this further. The other gods ARE split into various aspects, they’re just not popular enough to have multiple in America. American Kali, for example, mentions that her aspect in India is doing much better than herself, though she’s not doing too bad. Afghan Jesus, apparently, was last seen trying to…
You’re probably thinking of John Snow, widely considered to be the first epidemiologist. Snow tracked every case of cholera in London on a giant map, and noted patterns. For example, Bedlam Asylum had no cholera despite every single one of it’s neighbors being devastated. Snow realized that Bedlam had a well on the…
She is absurdly smart. Went to Dartmouth. Her podcast was incredible (RIP...) mainly because she is a phenomenal interviewer. I was always amazed at how she managed to make even the blandest pretty white boy seem interesting when he was talking to her.
I was thinking the same thing. How many more facts does she need?!
Me too. I liked that he was as pissed about it as would be expected, and the show didn’t try to say “It’s ‘universal’ violence!” Shadow was the victim of an attempted lynching and that is treated with the gravity it deserved.
Hi. I’m a Cuban/Colombian who grew up in Miami. All of my family still lives here. There are many, many Cuban republicans. It’s awful and I fight against it as often as I can.
I was just going to comment how much I loved that photo in particular.
I’m a mechanical engineer, and I always identified with the ground crew in Star Wars. I know I could never fly an X-Wing, but I could maybe make her fly in the first place!
Doesn’t look like anything to me.
That theory has been thouroughly debunked and is actually really harmful because it slowed the polio vaccination rate in sub-Saharan Africa
I saw a different study from a while ago that tried to track the very first human-to-animal transmission, which they narrowed to the Congo river, sometime in the 1920s. Most likely it came from a person slaughtering a chimp for “bushmeat”, with the chimp’s blood infecting an open wound. The disease percolated in…