Theatre is not just a story to be spoilt through a leaked plot point but also an experience that will be dampened with the more you know about its delivery. As theatre goers we know that the thrill of experiencing the wonders of stagecraft can’t be replicated (or beaten in my opinion)...
“An appeal to celebrity is a fallacy that occurs when a source is claimed to be authoritative because of their popularity”[RationalWiki] Today I was greeted by this Discord ping: What I want to talk about is only very tangentially related to what you see above, and the result of some ...
“This has given an air of mystery to his views, was the foundation of his banishment, the subversion of the Masonic order, and is the colour for the ravings against him of Robinson, Barruel & Morse, whose real fears are that the craft would be endangered by the spreading of information...
country actDixie Chicks, R&B singerMary J. Bligeand international superstarShakira. Such an event hardly seemed appropriate for anAC/DCcover, but for some reason Dion deemed it the perfect occasion to break out a rendition of “You Shook Me All Night Long....
The tricky part is, you're really supposed to be asleep before he gets close enough for you to hear him. If you're awake, and Santa swings by, he moves on the the next house. So, when is Santa supposed to arrive in Amarillo, Texas?
Deemed as the perfect content by TikTok’s algorithm, the humorous and catchy snippets of music videos have been going viral in social media platforms since 2022. TikTok in particular has been seeing an increasing number of users creating comedy music content that has been going viral every year...
There was, naturally, an appeal but finally, the supreme court of Israel ruled that Franz Kafka’s manuscripts must go to the National Library. At last, in 2016,the door to the law was closed. Courts, secrets, cats, safety-deposit boxes,legal proceedings that go on for years and yearsan...
When someone says “why is 80 GB of your drive unpartitioned; do you have encrypted data there?”, you have a very realistic response: “no, I just said ‘yes’ when TrueCrypt asked if I wanted to create an 80 GB garbage partition”. Implemented correctly, it should be impossible to ...
is a good person in my eyes. The key thing for me and my readers to take away from this is the focus onINTENTION, not perfection. There are no perfect people in the world and everyone has their own shit going on that we’ll never understand. As an all-or-nothing person, I went ...
The undue faith in peer review seems to be an implicit version of the “appeal to authority” fallacy, in which information is deemed valid simply because of its association with experts. The problem is even worse when considering the politics of peer review (name recognition, unfavorable reviews...