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The Stute

A more human medium

Having recently played a lot of GeoGuessr, I’ve become particularly interested in the “meta” of different geographic landscapes. Admittedly, my memory is poor for the varying telephone poles, foliage, and Google cars.

Inspiration on shuffle

When does inspiration strike? Is it when we are outrageously emotional, pure yearning and sorrow consuming the mind? Is it when we first realize we are in love with someone and that ethereal, almost scary ache bolts through the heart?

Minor Fair 2025

Are you a computer scientist who is secretly an artist? A biomedical engineer with a love for economics? Maybe an accountant with an interest in physics?

Marigold

The Victorian Language of Flowers was used for decades to relay feelings that people had a hard time expressing or were too embarrassed to share.

The secret life of spiders

“I’m sure everyone knows that spiders make silk and have venom, but they also fly, play songs, walk on water, solve puzzles, and live everywhere, from underwater to the tallest mountain peaks on Earth,” said James O’Hanlon, author of Eight-Legged Wonders: The Surprising Lives of Spiders, which is a book about the remarkable lives of one of the most misunderstood and maligned creatures on the planet: the spider.

The case of the disappearing Stute

The following anecdote must be read with your face under a flashlight and a spooky voice:

It was a dark and stormy Thursday night.

Sinners: blood, blues and vampires

People think that horror movies need a haunted house, vengeful ghosts or jump scares around every corner. But Sinners redefines the genre, using the blues and an Irish vampire with a dark history and a darker purpose.