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NASA. SCUBA. CIA. FBI. LMAO. These are acronyms, right? Not exactly, and that’s what I want to nerd out about with you today. These words all belong to…
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Gremlins
I saw the movie Gremlins when I was a kid, probably when I was about 9 years old. It set my young imagination on fire, as mogwai—cute little furry…
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No, But...
Much of the world is engaged in a tug-of-war where each side just yanks as hard as it can, trying to topple the other side and win. Every argument…
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Göbekli Tepe
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Inflection Points
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Thanks, Theia!
Four and a half billion years ago, the little proto-Earth was minding its own business, orbiting the Sun, and living its best little Earth life. Young…
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Daylight Savings Time
Why is Daylight Savings Time a thing? When I was a kid, I heard the urban legend that DST was invented so that we kids could wait for the bus during the…
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Deep Time
When we humans experience time, we tend to see things in terms of the common units we use to measure time: seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months…
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A Hill to Die On
Near the border between Laos and Vietnam, covered by dense jungle vegetation sat Hill 937. It was known by the people who lived there as Dong Ap Bia…
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The Collector
Collecting things is a weird obsession. I don’t mean to use the term “weird” pejoratively, mind you—I myself have collected lots of things over the…
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Dynamic Duos
Batman is a different sort of superhero. He brings elements of darkness into his crimefighting strategy, using fear and intimidation along with his…
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Jargon Monoxide
“Let’s ideate on this for a bit and see if we can’t generate a unique value add.” “Sure, but let’s circle back once we can drill down to identify…
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