/u/itsallfolklore had a great answer to an interesting question about elves. http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1w10f0/why_didnt_elves_survive_the_transatlantic_crossing/cexp8a1

Happy Sunday everyone! Yesterday /u/BT_Uytya asked about Richard Carrier's Proving History and the use of Bayes' theorem in historical methodology. Having glanced over his links, I was downright perplexed that any historian would make this the basis of their argumentation. Carrier's Wikipedia page doesn't inspire confidence either. Any thoughts?

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Also, our AMA on Classical Archaeology was super interesting, in case someone managed to miss it.

/u/idjet had an excellent, well-sourced answer about why we cannot calculate suicide rates during the Middle Ages. Link