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Here’s the mistake I made. I looked at the people who were 5 or 10 years ahead of me, people with 6- and 7-figure businesses, and thought I needed to do what they were doing. I had to get professional head shots, get a logo, be on every social media platform, start a podcast, post videos to YouTube, have…
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If you want a society more frank about its integral reliance on technology, steampunk outfits are a far more affecting means to argue for your technophilic future than, say, a fake bluetooth headset. 47. Stephen Becker normally writes about architecture, but today he’s interested in cyborg fashion. If we’re all already cyborgs, why do some…
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The Origins of Pasta
historical-nonfiction: Pasta, as we know it today, can only be made from triticum turgidum var. durum, or “durum wheat.” Because of its high gluten content, this type of wheat allows hard, dry pasta with a long, safe shelf life. Because the ancient Etruscans and Romans did not know about durum wheat, they could not have…
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br4vest: superheroesincolor: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2009) “Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school…
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The promise of the Internet of Things has duped folks into thinking that the traditional manufacturing process + software = orders of magnitude higher productivity. Software is helpful, but if you’re redesigning a system, software’s benefit is marginal — you get greater returns by changing the Thing than the Internet behind it. In indoor farming, we see…