Hiii!!
My writer’s block is so bad that I do not know what to write as an introduction, so, hello?!
It’s been a long month, and I was half-tempted to not publish this month’s episode. But better late than never, no?
Let’s begin.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VPfZ_XzisU
The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies, Explained
Learnt so much from this video I am half-tempted to learn about the maths and derive the equations myself.
But I don’t like book like that, so blehhh
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‘London Bridge Is Down’: The Secret Plan for the Days After the Queen’s Death
White people really do think of everything.
It might be why they are so successful
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https://marker.medium.com/what-really-happens-when-you-become-an-overnight-millionaire-acac42990175
What Really Happens When You Become an Overnight Millionaire?
The options are legion, running the gamut from retirement to becoming poor again.
But what happens when the one thing that made you rich is not available to you now that you are rich?
To paraphrase,
“…More money generally means less struggle, and if it’s struggle that made you, how you find that going forward now that you are rich?…”
Read this
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https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-throw-a-punch
How to throw a Punch
I never encourage violence, but like all knowledge, it is better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/useful-fun-websites
38 Super Useful And Fun Websites You Never Knew You Needed In Your Life
Has the entire shebang, from the goofy to the useless to the useful. Nevertheless, every one of these websites is interesting.
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https://amp.economist.com/leaders/2019/10/12/how-to-hide-a-billion-dollars
When you’re a country’s leader and you’ve embezzled $1billion, hiding it is more difficult than it looks.
Here’s how you can do it
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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/07/10-women-written-out-of-history/
10 women who were written out of the history books
History is full of women who were denied recognition for their accomplishments. Worse than that, more often than not, their accomplishments were attributed to men.
As you can imagine, this sucks.
Thankfully, now we can hear their stories
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https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-england-44209421
Sex, lies and payday loans: The parachute murder plot
A frankly unbelievable story.
Featuring a soldier, multiple episodes of attempted murder, and a man giving the good good to his wife, ex-wife, and girfriend at the same darn time.
Men are terrible beings
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https://humanparts.medium.com/my-mothers-food-159b1116b018
My Mother Cooked for Her Husband, Now She Cooks for Herself
On feminism, marital happiness, and how duty derails from love.
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-girls-who-fainted-at-the-sight-of-an-egg
The Girls Who Fainted at the Sight of an Egg
This is incredible writing. And about eggs, no less.
Some people have this writing thing down pat.
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https://medium.com/@IjeomaOluo/the-women-who-saved-me-fa22dacb6241
The Women Who Saved Me
Every so frequently, I read something so raw, so viscerally honest, that I don’t have the words to write a synopsis.
Like this piece, written for International Women’s Day last year.
I’m getting a heightened awareness of how difficult life as a woman is, and I’m renewing my decision to play my part to make life easier for women, all women, everywhere.
I hope it makes you feel the same way.
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That’s all, folks.
Until next month, remember to be kind to everyone.
Ciao!
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