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The art of predicting someone’s future from the number of infections or deaths in a given community or country at a given time, and their birth date.
Fortunetellers in some remote parts of Asia are profiting from coviderology, by advising gullible clients whether or not they should travel hundreds of miles to the nearest city to get vaccinated.
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Relying on GPS weakens our natural ability to find our own way, while atrophying other cognitive skills that are needed to navigate our oft-complicated lives—we need to resurrect the lost art of getting out of our comfort zone and finding our way without a map or GPS.
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Get the GPS mug.When the number π self-proclaims to be God’s “anointed” number, because it is the most famous constant in the whole of mathematics—no number has had such an impact on popular culture that even some mathophobic folks wouldn’t mind tattooing it conspicuously to look mathematically cool in the same way that unbelievers wear a cross to appear religious.
Because π is the beloved symbol of choice for millions of people worldwide, or even deified by some pi fanatics and numerologists, it’s not preposterous for the “sacred number” to be conferred the title of “Holy Pi.”
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Get the Prime Goal mug.The psalm par excellence from the Book of Psalms, in the Bible, which has been used as an effective spiritual weapon by Christian believers time and again to fight against any plague, pandemic, or pestilence.
Guesstimate how many millions of believers (or even pre-believers) worldwide have read or prayed Psalm 91 to seek divine protection against Covid-19.
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Dubbed an "authoritarian democracy" by critics, Singapore is "a first world oasis in a third world region"—where political dissidents would better apply for asylum in the US or the West to avoid being fined, jailed, or made bankrupt.
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Guesstimate how many ultra-MAGA “patriots,” blue-collar “evangelicals,” and January 6 Xtians would be convicted and sentenced to a jail sentence for answering the call of their Pharisee-in-Chief to storm the Capitol so that he’d illegally serve a second-term in office.
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