Poster from the 1933 movie
In the compact, 4,000-word story of The Monkey’s Paw, we’re warned that the dark arts – those things we don’t fully understand – can deceive us, and that even when we think we have free will and free choices, we’re constrained by fate. Continue reading “Why you can’t get what you wish for (The Monkey’s Paw)”
Day: January 10, 2018
Why do we need illusion when reality is so amazing?
Photographer Alan Friedman took this photo of our sun
being crossed by the International Space Station.
The crossing took 0.2 seconds. Continue reading “Why do we need illusion when reality is so amazing?”
Why she had bags of cocaine inside her boobs
No, these were not their first clue.
Some drug smugglers need to focus less on their physical method of hiding
their contraband, and more on training their drug mule on how to avoid suspicion.
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