For five friends, it was supposed to be one last getaway before they went their separate ways—a time to say goodbye to each other, and to the game they’ve been playing for the past 3 years. But they all have their own demons to deal with and they’re all hiding secrets. Finn ha...
First off, I want to begin by saying that any person can get along with any other person. Individuals have many nuanced ways of showing up in the world and personality type isn’t the sole defining factor of relationship success. The more maturity two people have, the more they are likely...
First. Prison in the United States is based on punishment, not rehabilitation. The United States has the largest prison population in the world and the highest percentage of a state’s population housed in cages. We are held in punishing ways that cause fear, emptiness, rage, depression and ...
This two-day conference will therefore address the idea of a speculative aesthetics and propose ways of tuning speculation to its imaginative and experimental principle. While several approaches can address the exclusion of the aesthetic from expressions of the current speculative attitude, we propose to...
Process –HOW creative people do what they DO. But Processes can also be Products – new ways of doing old tasks Press –the environment around the creative person. If it’s not conducive to creativity, it soon dies. (MORE info…) ...
The gothic vampire horrorThe Invitationrecently hit cinemas and has become one of the latest releases to feed into the "good for her" genre trope. The trend refers to films, typically of the horror genre, in which a female protagonist prevails in the final moments in ways that are not nece...
Frank has surprised me in other ways, too. Despite succumbing to so much misinformation—maybe we should call it malinformation—he routinely pushes everyone he knows to get the Covid vaccine and puts up with no small amount of shit for it, all in a good-humored way. When the vaccines ...
outrageously-manipulative government programs sold to the public as a means of enforcing compliance and discouraging unhealthy behavior by way of taxes, fines, fees, and programs for the “better” good. Surveillance cameras, government agents listening in on your phone calls, reading your e-mails...
For example, are country-level average levels of happiness associated in sensible ways with other variables measured at the country level, such as economic and demographic indicators, or other cultural attributes such as, for example, religiosity? But lest we fall prey to the ecological fallacy, ...
any eight cards taken and one chosen, other seven called out to assistant who then names selection, effect "Study in Stud" related but not the method Also published here Baker's Eight-Card Trick (Al Baker, 1949) 2003 The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Mental Magic) ...