Curie-ous about rice cookers?
How does a rice cooker know when the rice is done?
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Druze you believe in reincarnation?
One god and reincarnation.
ADE 651
In chaos, opportunity. That must be what Jim McCormick thought.
Not much snow for the Eskimo
You may have heard that there are numerous words for snow in the Eskimo language.
An ewt in a napron
Who newt that a newt used to be an ewt?
Venetian secularism
The very first printed versions of the Talmud and the Quran were produced in Venice.
More poor definitions of Moor
You may have heard of the Moors from history class, or Shakespeare.
Orbital; a review
"Orbital," written by Samantha Harvey, feels like a short novel inspired by Carl Sagan's quote in Pale Blue Dot.[1] Much like the six characters aboard the International Space Station (ISS), it exudes a floating, ethereal quality. Unfortunately, some of the astronauts' lives feel a
A bad day to be an enemy of eBay
It's not every day that seven employees of a publicly listed company plead guilty to criminal conspiracy charges.
Brave New World; a review
A Willy Wonka-esque, psychedelic-tinged novel, painting a picture of a world free from pain and unfulfilled desires.
Bullish on leather
If I were paid in cow hides, I would need a shipping container for my monthly salary.
Your farts might smell but natural gas doesn't
Silent but deadly.
Shorts
Sima Qian, the man with(out) balls
Sima Qian was sentenced to death. At the time, this sentence could be commuted by choosing castration, which is what he opted for.
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Cover the fires
What's a curfew, anyways?
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If you have this surname, don't chuck a Fitz
Are you a bastard?
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Ewe've got to be kidding me
Nature is cruel.
Shorts
Are you as smart as a dolphin?
It turns out that my mate had more in common with Spock the dolphin than I.
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The cure for methanol is in the name
Something that popped up in my head because of the news recently about those poor tourists in Laos who died from methanol poisoning.
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Jenny was a daughter of mine
This one is pretty short.
Reviews
The Plague; a review
A narrative that focuses on a fictional epidemic while also serving as an allegory for the various human struggles against oppression during and after World War II.
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The man whose gold was gone
The "James Bond of Philanthropy".
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays; a review
A cure for the modern echo chamber.
A detached Russian landmass
Have you ever looked at Google Maps and wondered about that parcel of land which, when zoomed in, never appears with a country’s name? Well, it’s in Kaliningrad Oblast[1], one of the 85 states of Russia. You see the issue here, right? It is non-contiguous with the
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Stories of Your Life and Others; a review
Rather than dazzling with technicolor dystopias, Chiang uses his speculative worlds to craft quiet, cerebral explorations of humanity’s most pressing philosophical concerns.