civilization
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There’s an alternate universe where Taylor Tomlinson is a young adult fantasy author holed up in a cabin miles from civilization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The most notable material is the rise of its first technological civilization just over a million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
I met the owner, Ada Tourtsakis, at her yurt on the outer edge of Sedona’s civilization.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
If tech bros are saying that AI might someday break containment and take down civilization, that sounds like an accountability sink coupled with an investor pitch.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
At the first signs of civilization, we veered off the road and stopped at an old gas station just south of Monclova.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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The rise and fall of AI agent civilizations.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Historically, advanced civilizations have flourished in the cooler climates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Human civilizations across the ages have understood this to be an important lesson, which is how gold became the go-to cautionary symbol for greed, vanity, and the hollow existence to which they lead.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
For more than a century, the National Museum has preserved a remarkable collection of clay tablets from some of the earliest civilizations in the Middle East.
From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026
And like most other civilizations Egypt did not have—or need—a zero.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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We the People: Civ
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