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The Genie Game

What are your three wishes? — Genies are firmly ingrained in our collective pop-cultural minds. A big reason for that is movies such as The Thief of Bagdad (1940) and Aladdin (1992 and 2019), and TV shows like The Twilight Zone and, of course, I Dream of Jeannie. The depictions of genies in these works of…

Genie

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The Genie Game
The Genie Game
Genie

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Uncluttering our minds

Hoarding can also occur in our heads — More than a century ago — in 1905, to be precise — famed physicist and future Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein published four papers in Annalen der Physik, the prestigious German scientific journal. One of the papers, “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”, focused on special relativity and introduced the…

Mwc Space

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Uncluttering our minds
Uncluttering our minds
Mwc Space

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The Bad Influence

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How I made four figures my first week writing on Medium

0 is a figure, after all… — I joined Medium on January 19, 2021. I remember that day like it was six weeks ago. It was a chilly Tuesday afternoon in Madrid, Spain. Traces of snow from the biggest blizzard in five decades still covered the streets. …

Writing

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How I made four figures my first week writing on Medium
How I made four figures my first week writing on Medium
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Silly Little Dictionary!

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Loogie

This word can be hawked (or hocked) out your mouth — Today’s New York Times Spelling Bee says:

Spelling Bee

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Loogie
Loogie
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Silly Little Dictionary!

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Toothwort

Two plants, one name — Today’s New York Times Spelling Bee letters:

Spelling Bee

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Toothwort
Toothwort
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Silly Little Dictionary!

·2 days ago

Blast from the past!

A two for Tuesday bonus — Today’s Spelling Bee letters are A, E, I, P, T, V, and center C (all words must include C). This pangram, or combination of seven letters, has appeared twice before: August 11, 2022 (center letter P) May 3, 2021 (center letter T) In August of last year the dord* we…

Spelling Bee

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Blast from the past!
Blast from the past!
Spelling Bee

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Silly Little Dictionary!

·3 days ago

Blast from the past!

We revisit the common language — Today’s Spelling Bee letters are G, I, K, N, O, V, and center E (all words must include E). This pangram, or combination of seven letters, has appeared once before: March 27, 2021 (center letter O) On that day, we here at Silly Little Dictionary! …

Spelling Bee

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Blast from the past!
Blast from the past!
Spelling Bee

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Silly Little Dictionary!

·4 days ago

Defi

This word is literally a challenge — Today’s New York Times Spelling Bee letters:

Spelling Bee

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Defi
Defi
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Silly Little Dictionary!

·5 days ago

Bogan

Algonquian and Australian slang — Today’s New York Times Spelling Bee letters:

Spelling Bee

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Bogan
Bogan
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Silly Little Dictionary!

·6 days ago

Blast from the past!

We revisit a boat, a scientist, and an umpire — Today’s Spelling Bee letters are C, D, E, K, L, O, and center B (all words must include B). This pangram, or combination of seven letters, has appeared once before: July 15, 2022 (center letter B) On that day, we here at Silly Little Dictionary! …

Spelling Bee

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Blast from the past!
Blast from the past!
Spelling Bee

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Avi Kotzer

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“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” ― Albert Einstein ▹ My column: https://medium.com/silly-little-dictionary ▹ avionmedium@gmail.com

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