The Essentials

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Are we close to finding a submerged civilization?

Are we close to finding a submerged civilization?

What the existence of Doggerland, under the North Sea, says about the changing Earth and our own brief time here.

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John L. Micek
Mar 19, 2023
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Welcome to The Essentials.

We’ll start this week’s edition with a bit of essential history — and what it tells us about our own relationship to time, the earth, and our own conception of ourselves.

For as long as humankind has been able to think about anything, we’ve told ourselves tales of lost Utopias. Starting with Plato’s Atlantis — which probably too…

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