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This is an article I wrote for Skeptical Briefs in 2013, one of the few chronologies detailing what happened between 2008 and the publication of a very odd and unorthodox paper by Melba Ketchum, et …

A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971).The prologue of Carrie Courogen’s Miss May Does Not Exist details her quest to interview the deliberately enigmatic, fiercely private filmmaker Elaine May. Courogen is a self-professed fan who has …

Laying wide awake, trying to sleep in a Perth hotel, so I thought crunching some annual stats might help me sleep. 2024 has been a wild year of travel. Here’s my 2024 travel stats as …

I don’t know if you’re aware of this or not, but livestreamers carry a lot of fucking clout these days. Content creators like Kai Cenat, Amouranth, and Hasan Piker all generate millions upon millions of …

Every year, millions of Monarch butterflies undertake an epic journey across North America, traveling thousands of miles from their breeding grounds in the United States and Canada to their wintering habitats in central Mexico. In …

Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR – 600 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/8 – ISO 320 National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, …

Fish fragrant eggplant or yuxiang qiezi (鱼香茄子) is a delicious Sichuan Chinese recipe that, incidentally, has no fish in it. The term “fish fragrant” actually refers to a flavor profile similar to certain Sichuan fish …

a bright and colorful string of lights wind around the trunk and branches of a tree. the lights are bright against the deep blue of dusk. i’m pretty sure this is an oak tree but …

The recent Beeper controversy briefly brought the “blue bubbles vs. green bubbles” topic back into the mainstream. Here’s a brief review for those of you who are (blessedly) unaware of this issue. Messages sent using …

Whether you're developer, DevOps engineer, SysAdmin, QA or in any other technical role, you're surely familiar with cURL - the command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs (as described in docs). Most …

I recently got my hands on a USB drive with Kakasoft USB Copy Protection (DRM protection). This software promises to let you share data without the fear of it being copied by the end user. …

I’m pretty sure reading /r/AmItheAsshole is harmful to my psyche, and yet… … and yet why shouldn’t I be able to participate in this collectively harmful behavior? I don’t have good enough stories so I …

It's the update you've all been dreading: The admission by me that I've still been suffering from writer's block for well over a full year now, and that I don't rightly know if I'll ever …

Time flies; time doesn’t exist. The post The Contemplator – Eugène Carrière first appeared on Cendrine Marrouat - Artist.

The Secret to Coffee Shop Success: Choosing the Perfect Location Opening a coffee shop is a dream for many aspiring entrepreneurs. A place where people come together, work, and enjoy good coffee—what could be better? …