Category: real life
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Road Trip of Death
Yesterday, a few friends and I went to Toronto to see the Ontario Science Centre’s Body Worlds 2 exhibit. This exhibit consists of real dead bodies and organs, preserved by replacing fluids and fat with plastic. It’s partly educational, but mostly artistic. I was surprised at how close you could get to the bodies; they…
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Movies x 24
I’m so friggin tired. I spent all day yesterday at a friend’s semi-annual-ish Movie Day, where we watched movies for 24 hours straight. I made it through most of them, and thus got very little sleep. So how about I review a bunch of movies? Ok, sounds like fun. Primer: A very smart science fiction…
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Book Review: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell
I have a reading problem. It’s not that I’m illiterate (even though I just had to look up how to spell illiterate), it’s that I have trouble finishing books. Whenever I get a new book, I want to start reading it right away. Therefore, all the books I’m currently reading start seeming like a chore…
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