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Fujifilm Instax Mini Review: Beautiful Camera, Terrible Odds
The Fujifilm Instax Mini does something in the first thirty seconds that almost nothing does anymore. It makes you feel something before you have even used it.…
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Before You Post: The Wall Social Media Built in Your Mind
Before you post, something has already decided for you. Will I become what I keep paying attention to? I have been sitting with that question for longer…
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Procrastination Psychology: Why Your Brain Always Delays
You stayed to read this despite having other things to do. That is not weakness. That is procrastination psychology doing exactly what it was built to do.…
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Why Memes Replace Feelings. and Why That Should Worry You
The relationship between memes and feelings seems obvious until you look at it directly. You feel something. Someone else made a meme about something close to it.…
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Solomon Shereshevsky: The Man Who Could Not Forget Anything
Solomon Shereshevsky arrived at Alexander Luria's office in Moscow sometime in the 1920s as a journalist who had been sent there by his editor. The editor had…
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Why Daylight Saving Time Still Exists, Nobody Voted for It
Daylight saving time Europe has been trying to end itself since 2018. It has not managed it yet. The European Commission asked 4.6 million people a simple…
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Ahamkara: The Ego the Gita Actually Warned You About. It Is Not What You Think
Duryodhana says something in the Mahabharata that most retellings quietly skip. He says: I know what is right. I cannot do it. I know what is wrong.…
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Evening Walks in Victoria Park: What the Light Took with It
There is a version of arriving somewhere that is not really arriving. I know this because evening walks in Victoria Park have a way of correcting you…
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After Twenty Years by O. Henry: The Promise Both of Them Kept
After Twenty Years by O. Henry is told in less than a thousand words. It contains three scenes, two twists, one note, and four words that do…
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Eklavya’s Thumb: The Story the Mahabharata Never Defends.
Why did Drona ask for Eklavya's thumb? It is one of the most searched questions about the Mahabharata and one of the least honestly answered. The short…
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Why Did No One Help Draupadi When She Asked the Most Logical Question in the Room?
Why did no one help Draupadi? It is a question that has sat unanswered for three thousand years. Not because there is no answer. Because the answer…
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Duryodhana Real Story: What the Mahabharata Actually Says
The Duryodhana real story is usually told as a simple warning. Greed destroyed him. Pride was his flaw. The Pandavas were righteous and he was not. Villain.…
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