Pythous is a history-first publication. Pick a topic to see every article in it, newest first.
Long-form history on the people, empires and turning points that shaped the world: from Göbekli Tepe and the Bronze Age collapse to Rome and Persia, the Abbasid caliphate, the early Muslim community and Karbala, Napoleon, the Battle of Plassey and the founding of Pakistan, along with the myths and belief systems of the ancient world.
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Plain-language explainers on how the natural world works: why the sky is blue, what causes the northern lights, what science knows about dreams and déjà vu, who really discovered black holes, and the chemistry of the human body.
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Unsolved puzzles and enduring legends, examined carefully: the Voynich manuscript, the Antikythera mechanism, ball lightning, the undeciphered Indus script, the Nazca lines and more, separating what the evidence shows from what is still speculation.
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How the technology you use every day actually works: password storage and cracking, HTTPS and TLS, QR codes, containers versus virtual machines, plus hands-on guides to deploying Django, Docker, Ansible and open-source security tooling.
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