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Cultish
I recently finished reading a book called Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell. The book focuses on different types of cults – from the infamous ones down to MLMs and Crossfit – and how language is used to recruit and keep people in these cults. It got me thinking about how a woman…
Book Review: Before You Go Extinct
Going into reading this manga, I knew it was going to be dark and emotional – not too different from other manga I’ve read before. What I was not expecting was to be left with an existential crisis on the philosophy of why we are here and why we were born! The illustrations of the animals…
2025 Reading Challenge: Thoughts So Far
Today marks World Book Lovers Day and I thought it was fitting to share my reading progress and some of my favourite books I have enjoyed so far this year. Since 2023, I have tried to challenge myself to read more books each year. In 2023, my goal was to read 52 and I read…
Zooniverse
In January, I started volunteering as a citizen scientist on a platform called Zooniverse. Zooniverse is a platform where researchers can “recruit” the help from volunteers around the world to help with classifications in their projects. This could be anything from identifying animals in a picture to helping transcribe civil war registries. Since starting, I…
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