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<copyright>Copyright 2025, Curtis "Ovid" Poe</copyright>
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<description>When Luigi Mangione murdered Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, it was a form of terrorism the US rarely sees.</description>
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<description>If you're a highly skilled professional, moving abroad is easier. Here's a guide for those who don't have those skills.</description>
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<title>Rocket Physics 101</title>
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<description>Want to learn the basics of how rockets work?</description>
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<title>Searching for Alien Life</title>
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<description>The title seems like clickbait, but it's real. There's not only amazing research being done on the origin of life, but there are extremely intriguing results out there.</description>
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<description>The "Amazing Grace" documentary of Aretha Franklin creating the best-selling gospel R&B album of all time took 46 years to release. The story of how it happened is hilarious.</description>
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<title>Adventures in Traveling</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2022 10:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Is SpaceX Stumbling?</title>
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<description>SpaceX is one of the most valuable private companies in the US, but it may be stumbling</description>
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<description>I have participated in 21 weddings. Twice as the groom, 19 times as the minister. It's been a wild ride.</description>
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<title>How I Landed the Worst Best Job</title>
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<description>I am often asked how I got into technology. This is that strange, strange story.</description>
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<title>Redefining Life as a Continuum</title>
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<description>I recently wrote about life being a continuum, not an either/or. Isaac Arthur made me realize it's deeper than that.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2022 15:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Searching for Extraterrestrial Life in Our Solar System</title>
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<description>We might find extraterrestrial life in our solar system. What does that mean and what might we find?</description>
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<title>The Wasp Sanctuary</title>
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<description>Our house, to my surprise, is now a wasp sanctuary.</description>
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<title>My AI Life Simulator</title>
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<description>Years ago I wrote a small AI life simulator. Debugging was ... fun.</description>
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<title>Why You Will Say "No" to Living Abroad</title>
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<description>Many people fantasize about living abroad. However, if they're given the chance, they might say no. Here's why.</description>
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<description>I made a long, disciplined effort on Facebook to reach out and openly communicate with those whose views I do not share. This is what I discovered.</description>
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<description>A short story I wrote a few years ago, playing around with first-person, non-linear storytelling.</description>
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<title>Flash Fiction: Charlatans</title>
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<description>A flash fiction story I wrote as part of a writing prompt.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2022 15:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Why I Write</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2022 15:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Reluctant Prince: An Unfinished Novel</title>
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<description>An excerpt from a fantasy novel I'm writing for my daughter.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2022 08:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Gustatorial Adumbration and the Sheep of the Universe</title>
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<description>Years ago I lived in London in a hotel with a few dozen of my closest colleagues. Some adventures ensued.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2022 17:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Time to Invest in Space?</title>
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<description>The nature of the nascent space industry is changing rapidly. The next decade is going to see tremendous changes.'</description>
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<title>Programming in 1987 Versus Today</title>
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<description>Many developers today have no idea what programming was like in the 80s.</description>
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<title>How I Got Caught in High School</title>
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<description>Teenages are stupid. I was no exception. I once got caught breaking into my high school.</description>
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<title>What's Wrong with Blue Origin?</title>
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<description>The depth of problems that plague Blue Origin are astonishing.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2021 07:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Politics in Programming</title>
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<description>Designing the Corinna OO system for Perl has been as much a political exercise as a technical one. This has been a good thing.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Resigning From The Perl Foundation</title>
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<description>I've put this off for too long, but I'm resigning from The Perl Foundation.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2021 22:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Why Black People Hate Your Dreads</title>
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<description>Many stereotypically black hairstyles are worn by white people. White people get upset when black people object to this. Who's right? The answer is complicated.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2021 10:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Life on Venus?</title>
<link>https://curtispoe.org/blog/life-on-venus.html</link>
<description>Scientists are excited about the discovery of phosphine on Venus. We don't know of any natural prorcess which could cause this on Venus, but phosphine is regularly produced by life on Earth.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2020 09:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Don't Defund The Police</title>
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<description>Defunding the police is a hot, misunderstood, controversial topic. But there may be a middle ground that is easier to implement and satisfies more people.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2020 13:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>What Is Socialism?</title>
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<description>Many people have strong opinions about socialism, which is curious since it's hard to define it. So let's try.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2020 11:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Murder of George Floyd and The New Civil Rights Movement</title>
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<description>The horrific video of the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police might just kick off a new civil rights movement.</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2020 09:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Coronavirus Fake News</title>
<link>https://curtispoe.org/blog/coronavirus-fake-news.html</link>
<description>There is a lot of nonsense being peddled about the coronavirus. One article by a PhD in psychology is getting shared and it's dangerous.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 09:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Easy Solution to Quadratic Equations</title>
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<description>The mathmetician Po-Shen Loh has created a much easier way to solve quadratic equations. Let's take a look.</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2020 10:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Moose "has" a Problem</title>
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<description>For Perl developers, I explain some of the problems with Moo's "has" function.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2019 10:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Will It Rain Tomorrow?</title>
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<description>If every hour has a 10% change of rain, what are the odds it will rain tomorrow?</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2019 13:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Babylonian Numbers for 8-Year Olds</title>
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<description>Wherein I explaine Babylonian numbers to my eight year old daughter and now explain them to you.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2019 11:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Why is zero factorial equal to one?</title>
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<description>A quick explanation of why the factorial of zero is one, not zero.</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2019 20:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Missing Siblings?</title>
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<description>Apparently I may have one of two siblings raised in the former Soviet Union.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<description>My father passed away recently. His life was a whirlwind of travel from country to country under mysterious circumstances.</description>
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