The Height of Horror

Reading Time: 4 minutes When I was a kid, it always struck me how slow scary things moved in horror movies. Frankenstein’s Monster, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Mummies, and countless others, all seemed to be dragging along, while their hapless victims scurried away. The sluggish creature was never more than a few…

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What Bubbles Have to Say

Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you ever tried to draw a circle? Aside from learning to walk, this may be one of the earliest frustrations a child experiences. We start off fine, but somewhere around that simple arc our crayon veers a little in one direction, and our circle becomes some misshapen blob, slightly…

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The Narrowness of Numbers

Reading Time: 4 minutes When I was in school, I hated math. I despised how cruel and unforgiving it seemed. A misplaced decimal, a forgotten carry-over digit, a wrongly executed operation, and you were done for! No room for creative expression, no place for a personal perspective. It was what it was and success…

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