Category: Science
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BJJ, Life, and The Universe
When starting jiu jitsu your body often goes into fight or flight when you spar. Will you give up or rise to the occasion and find out what you’re made of? A beautiful representation of the rich duality of life and death. Humanity at its finest. And you get to wear a cool Gi too. […]
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The Smartness Economy AND Why Your Washing Machine Might Destroy Us All
Imagine yourself in 2049. You live on the top floor of a seven hundred story apartment complex in the downtown core of a neon lit rainy mega city. You’re about to do a load of laundry. “Computer: select cycle, heavy. Water type, hot.” Suggestion: cold water is best for dark colours and delicate fabrics.Selecting Cycle: […]
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What Will You Do When the Aliens Come AND 3 Ways to Prep for the Alien Invasion
It’s nighttime. You’re in bed. And your mobile device lights up. I thought I turned off all my notifications, you think to yourself. It’s the new National Wireless Emergency Alert Ready System the government has been testing out this past year. It reads… EMERGENCY ALERT / ALERTE D’URGENCE / ALERTA DE EMERGENCIAEXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACESHIPS INBOUND. SEEK […]
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Season 3 of the Three Body Podcast is OUT NOW
Brought back the podcast! Here are 6 new episodes for you Episode 1 – Probable Impossibilities by Alan Lightman I was first introduced to the wonderful writing of physicist, Alan Lightman, about five years ago. I found his book during one of my many autodidact adventures into science. In that book, Alan Lightman takes his […]
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UFO UPDATES ARCHIVE
There have been so many updates recently about this whole UFO hubbub. The Do You Believe In Aliens? post is getting cluttered From now on, all updates regarding anything UFO related (that I find interesting) will be posted here If you happen to find a fun update, please feel free to leave it in the […]
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How to Make Sense of All This UFO Nonsense AND 3 Ways to Get Involved in the Conversation
Sitting on your fold-out camping chair, you reach down and grab a tasty drink from the cooler. Open it and put it up to your lips. The fizz jumps up and tickles your nose. Take a sip. The refreshing coolness runs down your throat and settles into your stomach. This is exactly where you want […]
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The Push and Pull of the Accelerating Universe OR What the Heck is Going on?
What’s Happening? Simultaneously, there is a push towards the future, while there is a pull back to the past. Now more than ever, there is this feeling of, “The cat is out of the bag.” A secret that became known. A fact revealed, previously hidden. Things are speeding up. Going to Mars. Back to the […]
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What to Expect When Getting Your COVID Vaccine in Canada
School gymnasiums are quite versatile. We use them for sports, assemblies, shows, emergency shelters, voting, and now – like my town – pandemic vaccination centres. Maybe your town is using gyms as well. Upon entering the gym, you sit with a volunteer (or nurses, can’t tell, they all wear masks and have similar clothing on). […]
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Book Review of Probable Impossibilities by Alan Lightman
Audio version here: I was first introduced to the wonderful writing of physicist, Alan Lightman, about five years ago. I found his book during one of my many autodidact adventures into science. In that book (The Accidental Universe), Alan Lightman takes his expertise in science and the humanities, and weaves it together with a simple […]
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Do You Believe in Aliens?
AUDIO VERSION of ORIGINAL POST: ORIGINAL POST STARTS HERE: “Are there alien civilizations in the universe, some vastly more advanced than we? It gives me chills. Fevers my brain. There are at least one hundred billion starts in our galaxy [Milky Way] and two hundred billion galaxies in the universe. There must be other intelligences, […]
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