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I just scored 100% for last night's sleep on my app. I feel weirdly happy about it. Being good at sleeping feels like an essential but utterly useless superpower.
November 21, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I just scored 100% for last night's sleep on my app. I feel weirdly happy about it. Being good at sleeping feels like an essential but utterly useless superpower.
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New ‘Stargate’ TV Series Ordered at Amazon From ‘Blindspot’ Creator Martin Gero variety.com/2025/tv/news...
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
New ‘Stargate’ TV Series Ordered at Amazon From ‘Blindspot’ Creator Martin Gero variety.com/2025/tv/news...
This is pretty interesting. I wrote it, but thought I'd share. medium.com/intriguing-t...
The Most Dangerous Person Of The 20th Century Never Fired A Shot
He shortened the lives of millions — by accident
medium.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This is pretty interesting. I wrote it, but thought I'd share. medium.com/intriguing-t...
I just read a preview of Gamera - Rebirth: Code Thyrsos, and it was a lot of fun. It goes on sale on the 25th of November. scifiward.com/gamera-rebir...
Gamera - Rebirth: Code Thyrsos Review. A Great Origin Story For The Legendary Kaiju - ScifiWard
I was lucky enought to get an advance preview copy of Gamera - Rebirth: Code Thyros. It's a tremendously fun read.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I just read a preview of Gamera - Rebirth: Code Thyrsos, and it was a lot of fun. It goes on sale on the 25th of November. scifiward.com/gamera-rebir...
This is both fascinating and terrifying.
medium.com/intriguing-t...
medium.com/intriguing-t...
The Colossal Solar Storm That Nearly Wiped Out Modern Civilisation
The 2012 solar storm that missed Earth by a week and the Victorian disaster that showed what could happen if it hadn’t
medium.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This is both fascinating and terrifying.
medium.com/intriguing-t...
medium.com/intriguing-t...
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COP30 (the climate change UN meeting) is coming up, and every time I scroll past it, my brain initially sees it as...
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
COP30 (the climate change UN meeting) is coming up, and every time I scroll past it, my brain initially sees it as...
This true crime story is pretty amazing. Link below
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 AM
This true crime story is pretty amazing. Link below
This is interesting. He was one of the most prolific bank robbers in history, and hardly anyone has heard of him. intriguingtimes.substack.com/p/the-strang...
The Strange Story Of Carl Gugasian: America’s Forgotten Criminal Mastermind
He was one of the most prolific bank robbers in US history, yet no one has heard of him
intriguingtimes.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This is interesting. He was one of the most prolific bank robbers in history, and hardly anyone has heard of him. intriguingtimes.substack.com/p/the-strang...
Congrats New York!
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Congrats New York!
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This story is pretty mad. Fascinating though. thewordofward.co.uk/the-potsdam-...
The Potsdam Giants: How A Prussian King's Obsession Led To Kidnapping, Torture, And Eugenics - The Word of Ward
The true but dark story of an incredibly tall regiment called the Pottsdam Giants and a King's bizarre obsession.
thewordofward.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This story is pretty mad. Fascinating though. thewordofward.co.uk/the-potsdam-...
This is a fascinating and incredible story. medium.com/intriguing-t...
The Man Who Wouldn’t Die: The Astonishing True Story Of Durable Mike Malloy
Criminals tried to kill him multiple times. He didn’t even notice and kept drinking.
medium.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This is a fascinating and incredible story. medium.com/intriguing-t...
Rather than just do a review of Red Rising by Pierce Brown, I thought I would do the whole trilogy. tldr; It is superb. scifiward.com/the-red-risi...
The Red Rising Trilogy By Pierce Brown - Spoiler Free Review - ScifiWard
The Red Rising trilogy is one of those sagas that starts small and local, then keeps expanding into something that’s truly epic. Pierce Brown’s debut novel and its two sequels, Golden Son and Morning ...
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November 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Rather than just do a review of Red Rising by Pierce Brown, I thought I would do the whole trilogy. tldr; It is superb. scifiward.com/the-red-risi...
I'm currently in Perth, Australia, and loving it. Clean, nice, well ordered, with lots of friendly people. But I have never been to a place where so many things shut so early. I guess they are open early, but as a writer who rarely rises before 9 am, I will never find out.
October 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I'm currently in Perth, Australia, and loving it. Clean, nice, well ordered, with lots of friendly people. But I have never been to a place where so many things shut so early. I guess they are open early, but as a writer who rarely rises before 9 am, I will never find out.
Quokkas are ludicrously cute. thewordofward.co.uk/perth-rottne...
October 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Quokkas are ludicrously cute. thewordofward.co.uk/perth-rottne...
It sounds pretty unbelievable, but the first movie ever to cost a million dollars to make was a blockbuster and hugely successful - but was then lost. No one alive today has ever seen it. intriguingtimes.substack.com/p/the-first-...
The First Million Dollar Movie Has Been Lost Forever
A Daughter of the Gods was the first film to cost a million and no one alive has seen it
intriguingtimes.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It sounds pretty unbelievable, but the first movie ever to cost a million dollars to make was a blockbuster and hugely successful - but was then lost. No one alive today has ever seen it. intriguingtimes.substack.com/p/the-first-...
These are some pretty mad examples of nature being weird. medium.com/intriguing-t...
Exploding Toads, Terrified Sheep, And Raining Spiders — Nature Can Be Weird
Truly odd stories from the animal kingdom
medium.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
These are some pretty mad examples of nature being weird. medium.com/intriguing-t...
In the Philippines, there was a promotion where if you had the right number inside a Pepsi bottle top, you won a load of money. But when a computer glitch accidentally printed the same winning number on 800,000 bottle tops, chaos ensued. intriguingtimes.substack.com/p/the-great-...
The Great Pepsi Riot: The Day Hope Turned To Fury In The Philippines
A marketing stunt gone wrong left hundreds of thousands furious - and a few dead.
intriguingtimes.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
In the Philippines, there was a promotion where if you had the right number inside a Pepsi bottle top, you won a load of money. But when a computer glitch accidentally printed the same winning number on 800,000 bottle tops, chaos ensued. intriguingtimes.substack.com/p/the-great-...
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Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Matthew Kirscht.
October 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Matthew Kirscht.
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Marketing can go horribly wrong. medium.com/intriguing-t...
Six Of The Greatest Marketing Fails In Modern History
Free plane tickets, sexist tweets, and a soda that failed to solve social harmony. Marketing can go very wrong.
medium.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Marketing can go horribly wrong. medium.com/intriguing-t...
Who was DB Cooper? The gentleman thief committed the only unsolved case of air piracy in history and was never found. medium.com/intriguing-t...
The Mysterious DB Cooper and the Greatest Unsolved Hijacking in History
The gentleman thief was hunted by the FBI for 45 years
medium.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Who was DB Cooper? The gentleman thief committed the only unsolved case of air piracy in history and was never found. medium.com/intriguing-t...