To new subscribers—welcome to On the Commons! To those of you who’ve been around a while, welcome back! I recently wrote an essay for Psyche/Aeon’s “one thing that changed me” series that…| Antonia Malchik
35.9 – 34.0 thousand years ago I just posted a tweet about population structure in people thirty four thousand years ago. Like modern hunter-gatherers, people back then apparently managed to distri…| Logarithmic History
747 – 817 CE Charlemagne was crowned emperor on Christmas Day in the year 800, a collaboration between Church and State. A particular division of power between secular and religious authorities wou…| Logarithmic History
Bedtime stories are stories narrated by adults to children before they fall asleep. As an essential parenting skill, the storytelling scene is infused with love and trust. These stories make the transition from day to night easier. Rest well, tomorrow will be another day.| Platypus
Ramona Denby-Brinson has spent the last 30 years keeping children out of the foster system and in the homes of relatives.| Endeavors