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22 Aug 2025 1 minute read 1 comment luciman
Have you ever felt that if you planned everything in detail, you could avoid unpleasant surprises? That by keeping full control, you could keep life under strict supervision? This is a common psychological mechanism known as the illusion of control....
20 Aug 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Aura516
 In 1587, a group of roughly 115 English men, women, and children led by a man named John White landed on Roanoke Island, off the coast of what is now North Carolina. They were not the first Englishmen there; a previous military expedition had left...
19 Aug 2025 8 minute read 0 comments rah
This article kind of follows on from what I wrote a couple of days ago, when I dealt with a bully some three years older than me who was much, much bigger than me. You can read it here. Before I get into this just a bit of context. When I first went...
19 Aug 2025 5 minute read 1 comment Investigator515
The Aries has an interesting past and was involved in a noteworthy incident. Intelligence comes in all forms, and as such, we see all forms of intelligence gathering platforms as well. As we’ve explored espionage through this series, we’ve looked at...
18 Aug 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." Matthew 10:16 "Behold, I send you forth as circus freaks in the midst of businessmen: be ye therefore wise as comedians, and harmless...
18 Aug 2025 2 minute read 2 comments Myxoplixx
The world is spinning fast right now, and if you’re paying attention, the pieces don’t fit together as neatly as the headlines want you to believe. In the last half-day, we’ve seen a flurry of proclamations, quiet reversals, and sudden “coincidences”...
17 Aug 2025 1 minute read 0 comments luciman
Have you ever said, “I’ll do it when I have time”?Have you noticed how, when that time finally appears… you often do nothing?The truth is, the problem isn’t the lack of time, but the way we relate to it. 1. Free time doesn’t guarantee actionMany peop...
17 Aug 2025 5 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic
When I think about my childhood in Bosnia during the 1990s and early 2000s, one word sometimes comes to my mind: Proleter. It was the name “everyone” in my birthplace town Teslić used for our local football club. In the late 1990s, I was about ten y...
17 Aug 2025 2 minute read 5 comments rah
When I first joined secondary school I was the kind of kid who got picked on (unless you knew me of course - see below). I was skinny, bespectacled and nerdy. Everything that I believe our American cousins would call a Poindexter. To all intents and...
17 Aug 2025 5 minute read 2 comments Investigator515
The GigaHertz bands would help us to achieve true, cable-free, high-speed data exchange.Today’s world is a world of connectivity. We stream our music from remote servers, access our documents via the cloud and even have the capacity to share our work...
