Archive - Perspectives: Past, Present, and Future, by Patrick Wyman

A day in the life of an Archaic Greek woman, c. 770 BC

(This is an old introductory scene from a Tides of History episode - Season 5, Episode 13, “The Roots of Archaic Greece.” These scenes are fun as a kind…

Feb 12 •

January 2024

Ordinary People Do Terrible Things

Evil acts are easily normalized

Jan 16, 2024 •

December 2023

How to Think About Climate Change

A Really, Really Long-Term Perspective

Dec 11, 2023 •

Welcome (Back) to Perspectives

Let's talk about some interesting stuff

Dec 7, 2023 •

September 2023

Welcome to "The Pursuit of Dadliness"

Patrick has a new podcast!

Sep 5, 2023 •

July 2021

"The Verge" is out today!

Please, please get my book!

Jul 20, 2021 •

The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World

I wrote a book!

Jul 15, 2021 •

June 2021

Dragon Man Emerges

A new species of archaic human?

Jun 28, 2021 •

Mass Murder in the Late Neolithic

A family meets a violent end in Poland, c. 2800 BC

Jun 3, 2021 •

May 2021

Indo-Europeans and the Yamnaya Culture

Migration in Prehistory

May 20, 2021 •

The Indus Valley Civilization

An Egalitarian Society in Ancient South Asia?

May 6, 2021 •

April 2021

Ancient South Asia

Farming and People in India and Pakistan

Apr 29, 2021 •

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