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The Never-Ending Article

Experimenting with an ever-changing essay — Preface [25062023] Today, June 25, 2023, is the 171st birthday of Antoni Gaudí, the Catalan architect who designed the church of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain. Construction of this church began on March 19, 1882. It is still ongoing. I visited the Sagrada Familia some years ago; when I saw…

Sagrada Familia

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The Never-Ending Article
The Never-Ending Article
Sagrada Familia

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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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Blast from the past!

Another twofer this week… that’s twofer twofers! — Today’s Spelling Bee letters are C, E, F, N, O, U, and center L (all words must include L). This pangram, or combination of seven letters, has appeared twice before. August 25, 2022 (center letter O) April 11, 2021 (center letter E) Now, Silly Little Dictionary! was around on both…

Language

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Blast from the past!
Blast from the past!
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Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes

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Unfluence

Negative effect of negative people — Welcome to the era of misinformation! We have fake news and alternative facts, so why not also a deceptive dictionary? With that in mind, we’ve created the Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes, where our imagination runs wild concocting fictitious words and their definitions based on the letters provided by The New…

Language

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Unfluence
Unfluence
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Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes

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Callbed

The pay-to-lay system — Welcome to the era of misinformation! We have fake news and alternative facts, so why not also a deceptive dictionary? With that in mind, we’ve created the Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes, where our imagination runs wild concocting fictitious words and their definitions based on the letters provided by The New…

Language

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Callbed
Callbed
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Silly Little Dictionary!

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Dolce

The life of sweets — Today’s New York Times Spelling Bee game says:

Language

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Dolce
Dolce
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Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes

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Neontooth

Even brighter smiles at night! — Welcome to the era of misinformation! We have fake news and alternative facts, so why not also a deceptive dictionary? With that in mind, we’ve created the Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes, where our imagination runs wild concocting fictitious words and their definitions based on the letters provided by The New…

Language

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Neontooth
Neontooth
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Silly Little Dictionary!

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Blast from the past!

We go back twice today! Double the fun! — Today’s Spelling Bee letters are E, G, H, N, T, U, and center O (all words must include O). This pangram, or combination of seven letters, has appeared three times before. September 17, 2022 (center letter G) November 3, 2021 (center letter N) January 29, 2021 (center letter T) Now…

Language

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Blast from the past!
Blast from the past!
Language

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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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