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In my senior year of high school, Joseph Zogby, my English teacher, asked the students to write an essay on Voltaire’s quotation, “If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.” Looking …

I was going to keep posting light over the holidays and early January, with an ‘in and out’ list and things in that vein. But Jimmy Carter’s passing certainly occasions mention. First, though, in case …

Report written by Neil Gemmell and Richard Brown As a scything community we scythe enthusiasts/afficionados, some would even say addicts, all convene in a field in Somerset to hold the West Country Scythe Championships at …

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 …

Rogar is not the first character Grenda ever created. The earliest one I can find is still Torvak, but he was a very important one. Rogar is the progenitor and patriarch of the Addingdale line.According …

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 …

Olá a todos! Estou (RE)começando minha jornada na arte da memória, com o tempo acabei de largando devido aos compromissos do dia a dia e um pouco de indisciplina. Nesse novo começo, gostaria de estabelecer …

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, …