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I fit in one last mountain run this season before snow comes and makes the high-country trails impassable. I drove an hour from home to Ouray to meet a friend, Christina, who became a training buddy as we both prepared for the 2021 High Lonesome 100. A day in Ouray—the touristy town with the hot springs pool and the roaring waterfall plunging down rock walls that form its box canyon backdrop—always feels like a special day, a feeling that harkens to childhood.

Today’s issue covers chip manufacturing in more depth and introduces its three critical phases: Front End of Line (FEOL), Back End of Line (BEOL), and packaging. The FEOL process builds transistors on the chip, the BEOL process constructs metallic “interconnects” to allow transistors to communicate with one another, and packaging wraps the chip in a supporting case to prevent damage. Each of these steps is very complex, so we start a high level overview of the entire process and then focus on the basics of FEOL processing for today.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Dir. Gil Kenan 115 min. There may be no better example of the ruinous influence of fan culture than the Ghostbusters franchise, which started 40 years ago as an amiable lark, then somehow shifted into the realm of Star Wars-level mythos the moment women wanted to get involved. The question of whether Ivan Reitman’s blockbuster comedy could even work as a sequel had already been answered with an emphatic “no” by 1989’s Ghostbusters II, which made a fortune on opening weekend before hemorrhaging viewers after people saw how terrible it was.

>>“A people” is the historical norm. Everyone prior to 100 years ago knew the concept. It’s conjoined ethnicity, religion, culture, society, and land. Then liberalism comes along and says, oh no, you can’t have that. It's why Israel is forever a pariah state>> That's why *all* Western states are pariah states, and not just Israel. Decolonization extends to every "settler entity," including the U.S. It's the same phenomenon that makes the American flag a "

Today’s post is the third in a series exploring fundamentalism from a variety of angles in light of the centennial of Harry Emerson Fosdick’s May 1922 sermon, Shall the Fundamentalists Win? The first installment can be read HERE and the second HERE. The series continues by looking at shifting definitions of “fundamentalist” and “evangelical.” Next week, I’ll be exploring fundamentalism as a global phenomenon. In the late 1970s, I was a student at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, an evangelical Christian liberal arts college.

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Friends,  We’re back with another installment of our video series, Further Ado, and this time I sat down to talk with my friend of twenty years, the actress, entrepreneur, and soon-to-be feature film director, Blake Lively. Blake and I talked about growing up in the entertainment business, defying the odds and expectations of being a woman in any business, learning to love and trust who we are and who we aspire to become, and so much more.

Hey everyone! We’re proud to present another great comic this week, the travelogue Junrei: Fushimi Inari-Taisha, by Matthew Loux! Tying in to this week’s episode of Mangasplaining (#96!) where we interview Matthew and Abby Denson, the short story features the two of them exploring the famous Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto, Japan. We also include a bonus explainer manga never-before published online for paid subscribers. Matthew Loux is an American comics creator who has travelled to Japan many times with his wife, the travelogue and comics creator Abby Denson.

A few weeks ago, Voguesent an email blast about Kim Kardashian’s new beauty vibe: “future alien Barbie.” I wanted to write about it, but… what else is there to say, really? In lieu of a newsletter, I present: a poem comprised of copy-and-pasted subject lines and sentence fragments, each pulled from a different email I received that same day — sent by news outlets, by newsletters, by beauty brands, by PR reps, by colleagues.