the peruser

Wrongdoers know that they’re doing something illegal and will go to great lengths to not be caught by authorities. This requires anonymity…

Ever since the Wright brothers first took to the air — albeit for a few dozen feet — the dream of conquering the skies has cast a shadow…

As any smoker will tell you, smoking costs some serious money. Even if you don’t feel it full way due to cost spreading, if you look back…

Later edit: Hi past-me, this is future-me speaking. I’d like to say you were wrong — Uncut Gems was a brilliant film — and it was brilliant…

Think about your favorite color and try to explain the reasons behind having chosen it. Depending on who you are, you might say that your…

On a nippy December day in 1773, American colonists in Boston decided to jump-start the proceedings to what would later become the American…

Film photography is dead, and we’ve killed it. Sort of. There’s no use arguing that analog met its demise in the wake of digital…

Video games are one of the few definitive successes of the modern world. Roughly half of Americans in 2015 played video games — making for…

Adopting a dog can be a way to express our personality. If the dog breed is rare, there’s a high chance its members become status…

A month ago I stumbled upon a spreadsheet with the counts for all patents issued in the US up until 2015. Looking at yearly evolution I…

They’ve had a weird appeal to us ever since written text had become accessible to the wider population. From people you hardly know sharing…

By the time I started getting pimples I was pretty well acquainted with the Disney universe. I thought I knew most of what was out there…

In 1992, roughly a year after the dissolution of the USSR, a now famous (at least among political science majors) Japanese-American named…

When I was at my previous job, I used to pick up a morning paper every day while commuting. It was free (the adverts dominated in square…

How often do you stop watching a game and just think about how tired soccer players are? Not that often, right? Especially if you’re…