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A few years ago, the media theorist Douglas Rushkoff was driven deep into the desert to a luxury compound, where five very wealthy men sat…
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In February 2025, a paper appeared in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society reporting a small oddity with outsized implications. Lior Shamir, a…
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About 800 meters from where the second atomic bomb detonated over Nagasaki on the morning of August 9, 1945, a stone gate was standing at…
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On the morning of August 27, 1958, a bulldozer operator named Jerry Crew climbed onto his machine at a road-building site near Bluff Creek, in…
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Just before midnight on December 20, 1954, a small group of believers gathered in a house in the Chicago suburbs and waited for the end…
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In bouldering, the standard unit of the sport is not a route or a climb. It is a “problem.” A climber walks up to a…
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Your publisher is Dekker Dreyer. Artist, writer, folklorist, and creative technologist. Dreyer has worked with the world’s largest media companies and tirelessly advocates for a better tomorrow. A member of MENSA and the Television Academy (Emmy Awards), he’s taught at University of Maryland and Columbia College Chicago as well as sat on councils at Stevens Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon. He holds certificates in Social Psychology, Eastern Religions, Ecology, Norse Literature and studied undergraduate at Georgetown. He’s passionate about exploring our world and invites you to join him as we build a better future together.
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