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What is the number one item McDonald’s sells? Among the vast array of items offered by McDonald’s, french fries stand out as the top-selling product. The fast-food giant sells approximately nine million pounds of fries …

My mom died 19 years ago and my dad has been in prison ever since, for her murder. I was 9 years old and my sister was 6. As kids, we had literally zero knowledge …

When iterating through lists or other iterables in Python, there are often situations where you need not only the value of each item but also its index. Enter the enumerate() function—a powerful, built-in feature of …

Reading Time: < 1 minuteInterview: Why Care About Church History? I was recently interviewed on Lisa Anderson’s Boundless podcast. She asked me several questions about the value of studying the history of Christianity over just …

Every so often, there is a character who jumps off of the pages of their character sheet, and they take on a life of their own. They go beyond mere numbers, and listings and references …

Photo by Kindel Media Today’s post is by author and book coach Janet S Fox. To most readers, picture books appear to be simple stories, easy to write and short in length. New writers often …

I am new to any type of memory training but for the past year i have been studying 6 languages and 4 martial arta. I have an intrest in physics anb biology but as of …

In the previous article we showed how to automate the migration from callbacks to async/await for Mocha tests using jscodeshift. We started from the jscodeshift-ts-template repo and added the final implementation to the ts-codemods repo. …

A while back I mentioned an AristoCraft (New One) 4-6-0 I'd considered to pull my Selley passenger train, when the day arrived to need it. Well, the Selley passenger cars are still in kit form, …

Young Stars, Dark Nebulae

I thought it’d be fun to celebrate spooky season with a little stats punny plot. We’re going to turn a normal distribution into a paranormal distribution! HA! Ok first let’s get some packages. library(tidyverse) library(tweenr) …

As a lifehacky person, I’m always on the lookout for items that might seem boring but secretly make life lots better. I’ve noticed people sharing similar lists to this, and I find them genuinely useful, …

Bread — and Circuses? Arles, on a July evening in 2022 Quote of the Day ”Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.” Clay Shirky (in Here Comes Everybody) Musical alternative to …

In her work exploring notions of plant intelligence, Zoë Schlanger speaks to Tony Trewavas, emeritus professor of plant physiology at the University of Edinburgh, who says: “Everything is intelligent. When people say they can’t see …

To kick off the year I paid a visit to the Itchen with my younger brother Rich and the plan was to drown some maggots and catch what we could. The river was up a …