A line chart of dates along the X axis from May 2025 to present and average age in years along the Y axis from 110 to 140 years. The series seesaws between 125 and 135 except for a drop toward the latter half of last year to 120 before rebounding to 127 this month.

A line chart of dates along the X axis from May 2025 to present and average year along the Y axis from 1920 to 1950. The series mostly stays within the 1930s, steadily rising to the early 1940s in 2025 before a steep drop back to 1938 this month.

This is the single largest increase in the average age of an element and the single largest decline in the average year since recordkeeping began in June 2023. That’s actually a good thing: it means we’re mitigating #recentism, bringing more historical balance to our coverage.

A line chart of dates along the X axis from May 2025 to present and average age in years along the Y axis from 110 to 140 years. The series seesaws between 125 and 135 except for a drop toward the latter half of last year to 120 before rebounding to 127 this month.

A line chart of dates along the X axis from May 2025 to present and average year along the Y axis from 1920 to 1950. The series mostly stays within the 1930s, steadily rising to the early 1940s in 2025 before a steep drop back to 1938 this month.

This is the single largest increase in the average age of an element and the single largest decline in the average year since recordkeeping began in June 2023. That’s actually a good thing: it means we’re mitigating #recentism, bringing more historical balance to our coverage.

The Theory of Recentism: A Reassessment of History The theory of recentism, also known as the revised history theory, is a controversial hypothesis that suggests conventional historical timelines are fundamentally flawed and that historical events as we know them occurred much more recently than generally believed. This theory has been popularized b

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