Today:
Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Day of Reflection. Nobody can read everything that appears here each day, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.
I enjoyed this week:
/u/American_Graffiti in Has the taboo around children's knowledge of sex existed forever, and if not, when and why did it emerge?
/u/agentdcf in Was food healthier 100 years ago than it is today? and in I was thinking about all the bread and water from the other medieval question and it made me have another question. Was bread made in medieval times the same way it is made today or has the ingredients of bread changed throughout history?
/u/NMW on censorship of popular entertainment in Germany during the First World War in FFA
/u/Caherdaniel in How many men, women, and children were needed to start a colony in North America? What supplies were necessary for the voyage and starting up?
/u/restricteddata's concise comment on presentism
/u/itsallfolklore in How was the concept of clockwise/counterclockwise expressed before clocks or in societies where they weren't common? (release that book already!)
/u/treebalamb in What was the status of the humanities in the Soviet university?
/u/Daeres was on a ROLL this week :D Here's him discussing why the Achaemenids didn't do so well against the Greeks- a REALLY cool topic of discussion, and he does a great job with it :)
/u/sg92i gave a terrific answer and follow-ups to What were the most important factors contributing to Japan's victory over Russia in 1905?