I'd really love to get a PhD in history and teach and research at the college level, but everything I'm reading about getting a history PhD just makes me more and more discouraged. Is it worth it or should I give up my dream? (old.reddit.com)
How true is David Graeber and David Wengrow's claim that, given the choice between living in colonial societies or Indigenous ones, people "almost invariably" chose the latter? (old.reddit.com)
Western cities have Asian supermarkets. Do Asian countries also have large Western supermarkets vs "normal markets" that are seen as normal? (old.reddit.com)
Why is silicon found more in Earth's crust than magnesium? Mantle is rich in magnesium, iron is very common in the core, doesn't higher atomic number means that element is much heavier? (old.reddit.com)
A new family moved in across the street and the boy (11 or 12) has been shooting hoops by himself. He appears to be taking it seriously. I played varsity basketball and would love to teach him some skills. How can I suggest that without looking like a creep? (old.reddit.com)
Why cant we make electric cars with swappable batteries like how propane tanks are for grills? Just roll up to the "gas" station, swap out and go. (old.reddit.com)
HOW DO PEOPLE EAT MUSTARD? I come from Sudan and I lack knowledge about alot of things mostly food related so please tell do people actually put mustard on hotdog like the starotype 🌭 because I recently tried it and honestly mustard is the worsted worst thing I ever put in my mouth (old.reddit.com)
The US sent Britain 50 mothballed WWI destroyers in return for bases during WWII. But were these ships even seaworthy after 22 years of disuse? Was Britain thrilled to get them? How were they collected and refurbished? (old.reddit.com)
For women that have stopped using food in an emotional way (eating to fill voids or eating when you’re emotional, etc.) how did you do it? (old.reddit.com)
Is fascism really an original 20th century phenomenon? Was there nothing functionally or ideologically similar to fascism at some point in history before the 1900s? (old.reddit.com)
After the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan correctly deduced that the bombs were atomic weapons, and that there would only be a few available. How did Japan figure this out so quick? (old.reddit.com)
Are kissing booths illegal now? I remember as a kid, I used to see references in television (cartoon or drama) where a family would go to a carnival and casually encounter a booth. (old.reddit.com)
I was on a date yesterday and this girl was talking about her ex bf about 90% of the time. I told her that I'm sick of it (once i drunk my beer) and left. Did I do the right thing? (old.reddit.com)
Universities claim that for every hour spent in class, students should spend approximately 2-3 hours studying. Do people actually do this? (old.reddit.com)
After World War 2 why didn't the Danes gain a reputation for cowardice and easily surrendering, as the French did, despite the fact that Denmark surrendered after only 6 hours, as opposed to France's 6 weeks? (old.reddit.com)
If a colorblind person who sees different colors than a non colorblind person get taught the names of colors the way they see them… how will they ever know they are colorblind? (old.reddit.com)
Does anyone have any scholarly articles explaining why we are still in an ice age? Did carbon dioxide emissions change the atmosphere that much to end the ice age we were in? (old.reddit.com)
Do you think it's possible that there are english-speaking Chinese/Russian entities, working in many secret offices, that are paid to sit behind a keyboard and comment and create posts on Reddit/Twitter/etc to increase tension, divide, discourse, etc? (old.reddit.com)
Why do women say height and penis size don’t matter when their most common insults against men involve calling them short and telling them they have a small dick? (old.reddit.com)
The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was inhabited by more than 33.000 people. Between 1987 and 1992, the city was evicted to be demolished. How were the logistics of relocating and re-employing so many people over only five years solved? (old.reddit.com)
The Bible and Quran both have that the Israelites dwelled in Egypt for about 400 years. Linguistically, is there any evidence that Hebrew had contact with Ancient Egyptian? (old.reddit.com)
If I get called in for questioning by the police in relation to a crime, and I refuse to say anything further without my lawyer present, how the heck do I get one if I don’t already have one in my phone? (old.reddit.com)
Prey (TV Movie 2022) takes place early 1700’s, and depicts a Comanche tribe living nomadically in the northern Great Plains. Did the Comanche ever wander north into the Dakotas, Montana, and Calgary - or was this a stylistic liberty the movie producers took? (old.reddit.com)
if my body raises the temperature to fight the bacteria when im ill, shouldn't we let it fight insted of taking pills that lower temperature? (old.reddit.com)
Does anyone else get the feeling of being too tired to stay awake but not wanting to go to bed because once they wake up they'll have to do it all over again? (old.reddit.com)
What was 'Clockwise' and 'Counterclockwise' or 'Anticlockwise' called before there were clocks? People still needed to describe things rotating or spinning in a certain direction, didn't they? (old.reddit.com)
Women who are generally pleased with your dad's role in raising you, was there something your dad just didn't understand about you that you wish you could've made him understand? (old.reddit.com)
I have one testicle and a girlfriend who I have been with for 3 years and sexually active. She has yet to even notice that I have one testicle still. Should I just tell her already? It amazes me that she hasn't even noticed after 3 years so far together. (old.reddit.com)
FUCK ME -- I shaved my pubic hair (a lot of it) a couple of days ago, I had a hoodie catch all the hair. I didn't dispose the hair and instead put the entire hoodie in the laundry bag and now my mom took it to the laundry just now, will the hair wash away?? (old.reddit.com)
Why are intelligent people seldom proud but not so intelligent people are always proud of every stupid thing like their race, nationality etc? (old.reddit.com)
When you were in an unhealthy relationship, what is something about the relationship a friend/loved one told you that got through to you? (old.reddit.com)
During its bankruptcy, a lot of Enron's internal communication was made public. Were historians and sociologists able to extract any useful information from them? (old.reddit.com)
Does anyone else get intensely nostalgic for periods of your past where, if viewed objectively without hindsight, you were actually unhappy? (old.reddit.com)
Is it wrong that I don't want to kiss my girlfriend after I just watched her dog lick her whole face? 10 minutes prior, that dog was licking it's own nuts. (old.reddit.com)
My cat has been stuck up a tree in 90-degree heat for two days. The fire department says they don’t deal with that anymore and he’ll come down when he’s ready. Who do I call to get this cat down? (old.reddit.com)
Does the fossil record show significant changes in the global diversity of land animals coinciding with the formation or breakup of supercontinents? (old.reddit.com)
Thirty-four years after scribbling E = mc2, Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin Roosevelt to warn him the Nazis were turning his famous theory into a nuclear weapon. How did Einstein know this, and did Roosevelt actually read his letter? (old.reddit.com)
I’m writing a 15th century grimoire, how am I determining the process for a magical ritual? How do I have such detailed instructions if magic doesn’t actually work? It can’t be trial and error like cooking. (old.reddit.com)
Bill Gates said, " we shall always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it" What's a real life example of this? (old.reddit.com)
It used to be common for governments to hold open, high-profile competitions for the best solution to some engineering problem. Examples include the longitude competition won by John Harrison, and the naval architecture prizes won by Leonhard Euler. When and why did this stop? (old.reddit.com)
In Gangs of New York, there's an African-American character (Jimmy Spoils)who runs with the Irish gang that Leo DiCaprio's character becomes the leader of. How likely was it for there to be a man of color running with ethnic European gangs in the mid or late 19th century? (old.reddit.com)
In Robert Fabbri's Vespasian series, a Roman executioner remarks that a girl the age of 7 can not be executed as she is still a virgin. What was the precedent behind this law? When did it come into practice? and what effect did it have if any at all? (old.reddit.com)