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The Tiffany Trophy of My Mistakes
Saturn Retro is finally over. However, I have a horrible feeling that it is never really over. This morning started slow for me. I had one thing in mind, a random woman on my social media talking about how Saturn has been making me miserable for three years. I got a little too curious and found a fancy looking article. “…falling into the shadowy trait of escapism and foregoing presentness and human connection in order to self soothe,” said dear astrologer Meghan Rose, advisin
Nehir Palaoğulları
Feb 134 min read


A Little Science Experiment
There’s this little science trick they show kids, with water, black pepper, and soap, to demonstrate how soap affects the surface tension...
Nehir Palaoğulları
Oct 10, 20252 min read


Common Core Math
I have been watching a comedian recently, whose name is Nate Bargatze. That guy is funny! I mean, probably not Gen-Z funny, but funny...
Nehir Palaoğulları
Aug 2, 20254 min read


The Glory of Suffering
There are days the sun rises only to watch you fall. You know those times, when you are in the middle of the ocean and cruel waves are hitting you again and again, making you weaker each time. You stare blankly at your cup of tea, now cold and untouched. You reread the same page for the fifth or tenth time. What should we do at those times? Sit back and wait for it to pass, accept life as it is, and as it will always be? Or should we resist? This is a genuine question from me
Nehir Palaoğulları
Jul 15, 20253 min read


Slipping Through My Fingers
The clock is ticking, ticking and ticking, and you can't do anything about it except watch as time goes by. Three years ago, before leaving Mexico, every night, every party, every meeting, I was thinking and counting down the time left before I returned to my own country. It did no good; it only made me waste the time I had with my loved ones by overthinking. Sometimes we feel down. We don’t want to do anything, just stay in bed and watch TikTok all day long. Time can weigh o
Nehir Palaoğulları
May 22, 20252 min read


Hit It 'Til It Works!
It is an international thing: “If it is not working, hammer it.” When we don’t know the reason why a device is not working properly and causing trouble, we often smack it or hammer it. I’m gonna be honest, it actually works… but just for a short while. We all know that while we are damaging the device, there will be no good outcome in the long term. So why do it? I was watching this house flip-off show earlier, the ones you watch with your family before going to bed. This ol
Nehir Palaoğulları
May 11, 20252 min read


What if the most truthful you only emerges when the curtain is drawn and the lights are turned off?
As soon as I stopped watching the show and began to recognize myself in it, something changed; it gave me some irritatingly specific flashbacks. When I was a kid, I was that kid, the one dragged from art class to art class like it was my runway, trying to pirouette in the hallway while covered in paint. I just thought it was fun at the time. I now understand that it was a formation. I was being built by beauty, melody by melody, brick by brick. With wildflower petals and wate
Nehir Palaoğulları
May 10, 20252 min read
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