The archaeologist Paul MacKendrick wrote a book about ancient Italy called The Mute Stones Speak. But for First Americans in California, stones aren’t mute; they
Wat Pho is the second of the three monuments that the first Chakri kings established in Bangkok’s center to reaffirm traditional Thai ways of perceiving
The horrors of the sack of Ayutthaya in 1767 made old Thai traditions seem like a lost haven. The siege dragged on for more than
It was one of the world’s greatest cities before Bangkok became the capital in 1782. Ayutthaya was founded in 1351, and it became the most
What is truth? A common theme in different definitions of it has been constancy. For example the Middle English (spoken from about 1150 to around
The biologist Mae-Wan-Ho, in The Rainbow and the Worm; The Physics of Organisms, wrote that biology has a long tradition of seeing organisms in atomistic
Maps can distort our views of the world. Thongchai Winichakul, in Siam Mapped, wrote that the map of Thailand became a metasign—it acquired meanings that
Many of AI’s leaders are concerned about aligning AI’s goals with what will benefit humanity, but its LLMs have a narrow view of us. Humanity’s
Western scientists in the 16th and 17th centuries increasingly conceived space as a void that objects move around in. At the same time, architects were