C-Students, Teleprompters, and the Queen of Sheba

Our biases and prejudices can cause us to believe some pretty absurd things.

I’ve been reminded of this most recently by a documentary I saw on Great Zimbabwe, a medieval stone city in southern Africathat in it’s day grew fabulously wealthy off of the gold trade. Great Zimbabwe had been long known to traders and merchants (goods originating there ended up in markets across the Middle East, India, and China), although the first Europeans didn’t visit there until somePortuguesetraders were taken...