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• This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic

  By Shaun on October 4, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  I’ve heard many explanations for these widely differing trajectories over the past nine months—weather, elderly populations, vitamin D, prior immunity, herd immunity—but none of them explains the timing or the scale of these drastic variations. But there is a potential,… Read More ›

• Six Figures in 6 days

  By Shaun on October 3, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Then, MKBHD happened. He shared a video about all of this—using my icons for his setup, and linked them in the description. The next thing I knew, I was making $28 what felt like every 28 seconds. My phone turned… Read More ›

• Naked Eye 3D

  By Shaun on October 3, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Samsung LED cube display to Chengdu, China. Can’t remember where I got this from, but it is so impressive.

• I don’t wear masks like him

  By Shaun on October 2, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  “I don’t wear masks like him," Trump said of Biden during the debate. “Every time you see him, he’s got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away from me, and he shows up with the biggest mask I’ve… Read More ›

• The Fears Brunswick Salmon

  By Shaun on October 2, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Graceful and complex, the curvaceous Brunswick is an exacting object to create. It takes its inspiration from a gentleman’s cushion case watch in the Fears archives, first made in 1924, and a dial colour used in the 1940s and 50s…… Read More ›

• Apple Watch Momentum Is Building

  By Shaun on October 2, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  When Apple unveiled the Apple Watch in 2014, wearable computing on the wrist was more of a promise than anything else. Apple created an entirely new industry – something that isn’t found much in the traditional Apple playbook. After years… Read More ›

• The Pretender

  By Shaun on October 2, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  None of Dave’s employees nor his business partner had seen or talked to him for almost two weeks. He hadn’t picked up or returned their calls. They had received responses to texts, but Dave usually dictated his messages, which made… Read More ›

• McGST Podcast Episode 16 (Looking up, looking down and judging everyone and everything in between)

  By Shaun on October 1, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Jo and I discuss a potential post-Covid world, what makes us the people we are (nature verses nurture) and why we are living in a time that could be about to change in a bad way for many. This is… Read More ›

• Swearing parrots separated

  By Shaun on October 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  No one had complained about the parrots, Nichols said, but they were separated for the sake of young visitors and in the hopes that they would pick up natural calls from the other African greys. “People have come to us… Read More ›

• The Q Timex Reissue Digital LCA

  By Shaun on October 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Despite being a sub-$200 watch, the Digital LCA is of pleasantly good quality. The stainless steel case sports alternating brushed and polished surfaces that would do credit to a luxury steel sports watch, and the printing on the dial, as… Read More ›