magic

Just because the kitchen can be a place where dreams come true doesn’t mean that it doesn’t provoke the occasional nightmare, too. Even the most accomplished of chefs have had those moments where they realize they don’t have an ingredient, some kind of mixture doesn’t want to comply, or they forget that they have a crucial component of a meal in the oven. Part of the magic that comes from cooking is how just one small error can take a dish from perfect to inedible, and it is a risk we always run when we decide to whip something up. 

Luckily, we have the entertainment of cooking memes to hold our hand through the disasters, and even give us some inspiration for new meals to try. We’ve all got to eat, but it is up to us how much effort and variation we want to put into fulfilling this need.

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How Our Brain Filters Reality and What Happens When We Lift the Filters #Paranormal

Our everyday experience of the world feels solid and real, but what if it’s only a sliver of what’s truly out there? Neuroscientists Marjorie Woollacott and Marina Weiler, in their study “Neural Filters to Conscious Awareness and the Phenomena That Reduce Their Impact,” suggest that our brains act like radios, tuned to a specific frequency of reality. Built-in neural filters limit what we perceive, keeping us focused on a narrow slice of existence. Yet, under certain extraordinary conditions—like near-death experiences, deep meditation, or psychedelic journeys—these filters can weaken, potentially revealing a broader, more wondrous reality. What Are Neural Filters? Imagine…

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Physics of the Fringe, Cracking Alien Technology #Paranormal

Imagine a machine snatching the device you’re using to read this story and sending it back 50,000 years into the hands of a Neanderthal. The glowing box, a complex mix of silicon, plastic, and glass, would be incomprehensible to him. He’d likely toss it aside, unable to grasp its purpose or the “magic” behind it. Fast forward to 2025, and rumors suggest the U.S. military might possess its own version of such “magic”: recovered alien artifacts from crashed UFOs, laden with technology beyond human understanding, writes popularmechanics.com. Reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) have emerged from high-ranking officials. In a…

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Surge of Brain Activity at Death Could Hint at the “Soul Leaving the Body” #Paranormal

A sudden burst of energy in the brain during death could hint at the “soul leaving the body,” according to Dr. Stuart Hameroff, a professor at the University of Arizona. Researchers have long observed patients experiencing vivid hallucinations after clinical death, when the heart stops but the brain shows electrical activity. In 2009, George Washington University researchers studied seven clinically dead patients, detecting a surge of gamma waves—linked to perception and movement—lasting up to 90 seconds after the heart stopped. Hameroff suggested this could indicate the “near-death experience” or the “soul leaving the body.” The study involved patients aged 34…

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Whole Army: Figure AI Company will create 100,000 humanoid robots #Paranormal

Figure AI has announced its second major commercial partnership, bringing humanoid robots closer to everyday use. CEO Brett Adcock revealed the deal could enable the shipment of 100,000 robots over the next four years. While the new customer remains undisclosed, Adcock described it as “one of the biggest U.S. companies,” sparking speculation it could be a major retailer or tech firm with significant labor needs. Adcock shared the update on LinkedIn, emphasizing the importance of deep relationships with high-capacity customers. “Our newest customer is one of the biggest U.S. companies,” he said. “It gives us potential to ship at high…

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How Apple TV+’s Severance taught us a valuable lesson on the importance of physical marketing in a completely digital world: ‘It’s irreplaceable by any ad on our screens’ #Fun

We live in a world filled to the brim with innovations and technological advancements, that cause everyone to look for new ways to excite their audiences. When it comes to advertising, we are well used to a reality in which we’re constantly bombarded with products and content, each begging for our attention and our dollar to a point where we sometimes don’t even clock it. We just let it go right over our heads, completely desensitized to the latest attempts at our attention from the constant onslaught. 

Those advertisements are mostly happening in the digital space and constantly on our phones. Everywhere we go while we’re scrolling, an ad is there. Someone, something, is always there and in our faces, trying to sell. However, in that world of new technological advancement, some old techniques are proven to be timeless and just as important, if not more, than the new.

When it comes to marketing, there is magic in a physical embodiment of the advertised, irreplaceable by any ad on our screens. Last week we got the perfect reminder of that, through a genius stunt brought by Apple TV’s Severance.

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Skating into Winter

Though ice skating has been around for centuries, it only came into its current form and fashion in the mid-19th century and was still taking shape as a professional and competitive sport when Charlotte Oelschlägel (1898 – 1984) wrote The Hippodrome Skating Book in 1916.

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2 Weeks ‘Til Christmas: 21 Holiday Memes to Jingle Your Bells This Season (December 11, 2024) #Fun

Christmas may be a stressful time of the year, but it’s also the most wonderful! 

The weather is chilling, the windows are frosting, and the twinkling lights fill the dark afternoons with magic. Despite Mariah Carrey playing on every speaker from here to Nantucket, Christmas cheer spreads far and wide as kiddos dream of the Elf on the Shelf, and cookie decoration dates remind us all why we dropped out of art school. 

Perhaps it’s the smaller moments of the holidays that make it so merry. 

With a honey-baked ham in the freezer and our favorite holiday records on loop, our merriest moments are the ones we create with our chosen family. Right here in this kitchen, we bake away the woes of the work day (“let’s circle back in 2025”) and our moms call us a little more often with news from our childhood neighborhood. Nostalgia and memories stoke the flames of the coziest evenings and even though we’re not totally finished with our gift list, we know that an Amazon box is on its way with some presents that’ll make our loved ones smile–if just for a day. 

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3 Weeks ‘Til Christmas: 21 Holiday Memes to Jingle Your Bells This Season (December 4, 2024) #Fun

Are you tired of hearing Mariah Carrey’s voice yet? 

Every year, she crawls back from some hole where only dolphin squeals can be heard in the distance and bestows upon the good-natured townsfolk a single song that is so catchy, so upbeat, and so belligerently overplayed that it becomes the bane of every retail worker’s existence. All WE want for Christmas is a little variety in our Christmas tunes, okay? 

Hating MC doesn’t mean that you don’t still love the holiday season, it just means you’re more tasteful than the mainstream. Curated decor, scented candles, and an ideal TV fireplace are all a testament to your holiday spirit. 

There are yule-tide cookie tips and the Schnapp-chocolate recipes magnetized to your fridge as well as the rampage of gift ideas swirling through your head like fresh falling snow. The holiday season is upon us and there’s nowhere else for this cheerful energy to go! Embrace your love for the holiday season because it’ll be here before you know it. In only 3 weeks’ time, Santa and his reindeer come clopping down your rooftop spreading merriment, magic, and you guessed it, a sack full of gifts! (and maybe a lump of coal for your least favorite nephew)

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Husband gets angry when wife says ‘What’s the story macaroni’ to her 5-year-old and 4-year-olds, tells her it’s ‘childish’: ‘Tell him to lighten up’ #Fun

Children are notoriously hard to calm down. They will get upset at something that doesn’t make sense to you, like not being able to have ice cream for dinner, and then nothing will make them feel better. You try reasoning with them, you try bargaining, you try bribes… you do whatever it takes to get this child to stop crying, because sometimes you just need them to put on their clothes and go to school. Some parents develop their own methods for dealing with their children. 

Each parent has their own tactic they employ when things get tough. Maybe you have a special treat you offer, a special song you sing, or a magic little phrase you say to wash away all the toddler angst. Whatever works, right? Apparently not, according to one woman’s husband, who had an issue with her magic phrase. Read on for the story and decide what you think.

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