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Astrobiologists have, for decades, defaulted to a conservative burden of proof that leans into two aphorisms coined by Sagan … life … should be considered a “hypothesis of last resort,” largely because “extraordinary claims require...
👤 Personal {#newsletter}1️⃣ Hello everyone. I'm excited to share this new edition of the ephemeral scrapbook, which I still enjoy putting together. It includes various tidbits about my creative hobbies. My newsletter frequently...
The Grovemade Studio Pad is one beautiful desk pad, with more functionality than just about any other desk pad available. However, it hasn't been a slam dunk for me.Every desk accessory that comes out of Grovemade’s Portland design shop...
🍿 Finished watching: The Adam Project. Finally watched a family movie. This one had a few swears in it, but nothing my kids haven’t heard before (sadly). Love time travel stories. This one was a 7/10 (even though the logic fails so many...
Over the past week or so I took some time off of work and mostly laid on the beach and read. One of the things I read on the beach was The Tyrant Baru Cormorant, and I'm currently halfway through the sequel, The Monster Baru Cormorant. I...
Models are designed, not born. Over the last few weeks I’ve been increasingly annoyed by the media coverage of the OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face and other similar incidents. Articles recounting the event maximize the...
I don't know Olly well. We have never met or even spoke to each another, but we corresponded a few times over the past year and half, and he offered a small discount to the subscribers of my news organization in Brazil, Nucleo (I don't...
Issued in Germany in 1992, The Outflung Net is a rare six-LP box whose very lack of a conventional catalog number suits its elusive character. The title comes from Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It, where a fly cast spreads so...
It’s not just you: the world is scarier today than it was 30 years ago because history has restarted, but the antidote to the fear of living in historically important times is pretty simple: Pick 1-2 problems you see and work on them....
Roti Canai is from Faculty of Fun, the makers of Nasi Lemak. Nasi Lemak has been highly successful in Malaysia. It is simple and accessible. It has reached many people. I often hear people tell me they've played this fun game, and they...
by Cláudio Alves Helen Hayes' Oscar-winning turn in THE SIN OF MADELON CLAUDET is the quintessential Pre-Code Best Actress vehicle, detailing the story of a "fallen woman" with a kind of candor that would be forbidden by July, 1934. Last...
in this age of resurrected AI celebrities idk how I feel about cartoon peter lorre the animation in this movie is a brave effort but cel shading on 3d animation just does not hit the same is peter lorre/granny an example of the weirdest...
I just realized I’ve finished notes on more than 90% of the Bible for Chapter By Chapter. As of today, I’ve finished 1,086 chapters, or just over 91% of the Bible. I have 103 chapters left to write about.
Well friends, we made it through what is theoretically the first half of Bill's criminal trial (it was scheduled to last 10 days; my gut tells me it might go over that, but then again, maybe not - it's not like the Crown is going to have...