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Hey there, my name is Grant Piper, a freelance writer, researcher and content creator. I am married to my beautiful wife and work diligently from my small farm in the southern United States. I graduated from the University of Florida…
Each necessary factor can be found in our world making the situations in the show more plausible than you think
Netflix’s new hit show, Squid Game, is taking the world by storm. It is already the most-watched program in Netflix history and continues to drive viewers with a riveting blend of action, gore, emotion, and well-written characters. Squid Game is truly a phenomenon.
The show is about 456 players that…
The future of robotics might not be quite what you think
Watching a long and lonely ore train snake its way through the scrubby flats of Western Australia is not a remarkable sight. Trains rumble through sparsely populated regions rich in ore and natural history every day carrying valuable minerals to ports on the coast. The trains are over two kilometers…
Not everything has to be massive to receive recognition
Located under an outcropping of grey stone Benxi Lake sits in its place as tourists wander idly by. It is not large. In fact, it is the world’s smallest lake. At first glance it looks like a spring fed hole that one can see all over the Southeastern United States…
A bold and wild claim that was awkward for the rest of the world
In 1493, Pope Alexander VI made a sweeping declaration in the form of a papal bull. The new declaration declared that the Spanish monarchy was entitled to all lands and islands, discovered and yet to be discovered, south and west of an invisible line that ran pole to pole off…
Battle of Adrianople
In 376CE, a crisis began brewing for the Roman Empire. Thousands of displaced Goths were beginning to stream into the Roman frontiers in Eastern Europe causing a great amount of strain and strife. …
Keyword Warrants Are Here With a Host of Troubling Questions
An unsealed warrant came into the public eye this month with troubling implications for the future of free speech, criminal justice, and big tech. In a now public warrant, Google was petitioned by the government to turn over all of the information of users that searched for certain phrases during…
And why don’t they anymore?
Many people who played video games in their youth probably remember mashing in a complex string of commands in order to unlock cheat codes. The commands had to be timed just right and done in a specific order but if you managed to input them correctly, you would unlock unlimited…
And other questions about the world’s largest currency denomination
A debt crisis was narrowly avoided in Congress this month but the brinkmanship made the Treasury tip their hand about what cards they hold close to the vest. One of the most interesting, and criticized, ideas was for the Treasury to order the minting of a single coin with a…
It is a phenomenon we have seen before and even has happened recently
On September 10th, 2017, a strange phenomenon occurred in Tampa Bay, Florida. For a few hours, all of the water in the bay drained away, leaving large swaths of the seafloor exposed to the open air. Tampa residents poured out in disbelief. …
