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The Real History of Daylight Saving Time: A Bug Collector, a Golfer, and the Kaiser

March 9, 2026 20 min read

Daylight Saving Time was not invented for farmers or by Benjamin Franklin. It was dreamed up by a New Zealand bug collector, championed by an obsessed British golfer, and weaponized by the German Empire during World War I.

The Mindfulness Theater: When Filming Your Meditation Destroys Its Purpose

March 15, 2025 7 min read

Examining the fundamental contradiction of performative meditation content that dominates social media while undermining the very practice it claims to promote