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Quarantine Reading Hacks and Recommendations
“Outside has everything. Whenever I think of a thing now like skis or fireworks or islands or elevators or yo-yos, I have to remember they’re real, they’re actually happening in Outside all together. It makes my head tired. And people too, firefighters, teachers, burglars, babies, saints, soccer players, and all sorts, they’re all really in Outside. I’m not there, though, me and Ma, we’re the only ones not there. Are we still real?” – Emma Donoghue, Room My Quarantine Journey Let me tell you, I am privileged. While the world has come to a standstill during this global pandemic, many are fighting for their lives, or working hard to save…
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Film Review: The Man From Earth
Genre: Science Fiction, Philosophy Available on Amazon Prime “What if,” begins Oldman, “A Cro-Magnon survived to present day?” The Man from Earth is a 2007 American drama science fiction film written by Jerome Bixby and directed by Richard Schenkman. Synopsis: An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine. The plot focuses on John Oldman, a departing university professor, who claims to be a Cro-Magnon (or Magdalenian caveman) who has secretly survived for more than 14,000 years. The entire film is set in and around Oldman’s house during…
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Illusion
It is so easy To create an illusion Telling the truth Is not always an option It is so obvious To deny the situation Fantasize a story And sell it as fiction In a clear empty skyWith no drop of rainDraw some alluring cloudsAnd the facade will sustain To whisper in a friend’s earYou might feel an urgeCast a spell of toleranceLet your desire submerge For when you walkYou create your own pathStand alone you mustTo face destiny’s wrath It is so simpleTo create a bewitching worldWhere hopes sing and danceThrough life be whirled To create an illusionIs but a common taskThe happiest faces todayAre nothing but a mask ~…
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Why Is It So Hard To Concentrate
If you are a person who constantly needs to multi-task or has several jobs to get done every day, then you are no different. Most people are stuck in the same situation, my friend (quarantined or not). We have evolved into an intelligent species and are fast advancing with technologies that are smarter than us. However, in the haste to react on everything and everyone around us, we do not pause and realize that we are actually ignoring the thoughts in our own minds. To explain this better I am going to share my personal experience of how I came across this daunting realization: I am a person who is…
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Book Review: Out For Some Bad Blood
Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup In 2015, Vice President Joe Biden visited the Newark, California, laboratory of a hot new start-up making medical devices: Theranos. Biden saw rows of impressive-looking equipment — the company’s supposedly game-changing device for testing blood — and offered glowing praise for “the laboratory of the future.” The lab was a fake. The devices Biden saw weren’t close to being workable; they had been staged for the visit. Biden was not the only one conned. This is the story the prizewinning Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou tells virtually to perfection in “Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup”. He…
