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WERE HITLER’S LUFTWAFFE PILOTS WIRED ON SPEED?

Let’s time-travel to 1940 and climb inside the cockpit of a German Air Force Messerschmitt Bf 109. The Luftwaffe pilot at the controls hasn’t slept in nearly three days. His pupils are dilated, his hands are steady, and his focus is razor sharp. He’s flying on more than av-gas and adrenaline—he’s flying on methamphetamine—speed as […]

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WALTER RUSSELL — FORGOTTEN GENIUS OR FRIGGIN’ NUT?

There’s something about certain stories that just won’t go away—fascinating stories buried beneath mounds of mainstream mockery, half-truths/half-fakes, and bygone wisdom or outright quackery. The story of Walter Russell is one of them. He was either the greatest misunderstood mind of the 20th century… or a deluded madman darkly cloaked in cosmic language and boldly […]

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HOW NOT TO EMBALM A POPE

Pope Francis recently passed away. He lay in state at the Vatican, in an open casket, for three days while over a quarter million people filed by and respected his body. Francis remained remarkedly well preserved unlike Pope Pius XII who died in 1958 and became the poster boy of morbid mortuary fails and the […]

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CRITICAL THINKING — THE GREAT MENTAL MODELS Part Two

One trait setting humans apart from other species on this planet is thought. Next to our closest competitors, the octopus and the orangutan, humans far surpass at deep cognitive processing and complex problem solving. Recently, there’s a significant breakthrough in aiding human advancement to understand and know general reality concepts. It’s a four-volume tutorial called […]

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CRITICAL THINKING — THE GREAT MENTAL MODELS Part One

One trait setting humans apart from other species on this planet is thought. Next to our closest competitors, the octopus and the orangutan, humans far surpass at deep cognitive processing and complex problem solving. Recently, there’s a significant breakthrough in aiding human advancement to understand and know general reality concepts. It’s a four-volume tutorial called […]

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THE TRAGIC DEATHS OF GENE HACKMAN AND BETSY ARAKAWA

On February 26, 2025, the decomposing bodies of legendary Hollywood actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found inside their cloistered estate at Santa Fe, New Mexico. The medical investigator ruled both died of natural causes approximately five days apart—Arakawa passing on February 12, and Hackman being deceased on February 17. There was […]

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MEMENTO MORI — YOU COULD LEAVE LIFE RIGHT NOW

Memento Mori, translated from Latin, means “Remember, you must die”. It’s a wake-up that your life course could be radically altered and end at any moment. Our lives are impermanent, in constant flux and change, flowing through time towards entropy and inevitable death that might happen without warning. Memento Mori — You could leave life […]

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SCRAPS OF WISDOM — KEEPING A COMMONPLACE BOOK

Creative writing stands upon two concrete, foundational pillars. Ideas and information. As a metaphor, information is cement and ideas are the mixer. You can’t build a story or construct an article without either. And there’s a long-used tool that lets you blend ideas and information within one toolbox. The box contains scraps of wisdom—keeping a […]

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HOW A PLANTED BRITISH CORPSE HOAXED THE NAZI WAR MACHINE

In April 1943, the body of Royal Marine Major William Martin washed up on the Spanish shore. With him were top secret documents confirming the Allies planned invasion of Italy via Greece and the Balkans rather than through Sicily which the Axis expected. This critical information caused Hitler to change strategy and redeploy forces leaving […]

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DONALD TRUMP EFFECTIVELY WAGES WAR ON CARTELS

On his first day back in office, January 20, 2025, United States President Donald Trump signed an extraordinarily powerful executive order titled Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorists Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists. The document contains terms like “unacceptable national security risk”, “take all appropriate action”, and “ensure the total elimination of […]

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