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Last Friday, Travis Scott dropped his highly anticipated new album “Utopia” to much acclaim from fans and critics alike. Travis is almost 10 years into his career. For most artists that means their prime is 3 years behind them, and that their day one fans are starting to tune them out. But with 4 solo albums under his belt, each album Travis releases still feels like the very first one. That’s because he’s has done something that few artists at his level have been able to do: He’s tapped into the power of community.

“All Americans need a Bible in their home,” Trump said, claiming that he has “many,” and calling the Bible, “my favorite book.”  “This Bible is a reminder that the biggest thing we have to bring back America and to make American great again is our religion,” the former president announced as he held a copy of the ‘God Bless The USA Bible’ - which, we learn, is a King James Version copy of the Old and New Testaments alongside the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence and Pledge of Allegiance - for $59.

As the 1900s rolled around, circuses started to explode on the American entertainment scene. Forget radio, TV, or movies - they weren't a thing yet. Instead, it was all about the thrill of insane acrobatics, wild animals, and exciting performances that took over people's imaginations. These spectacles were a major event and an eagerly anticipated break, particularly in remote and rural areas where life could be repetitive and dull. For many people at this time, their knowledge of different cultures or unusual creatures existed primarily within stories told around fireplaces or articles read under candlelight.

When Jola Ayeye and Feyikemi Abudu conceived “I Said What I Said” (ISWIS) in 2017, they were particular about what they wanted to create: a podcast laced with humour, its finger firmly on the pulse of youth and pop culture, and a platform that freed them up to talk about anything. They wanted to host their show without worrying about technicalities. And so began their search for a partner with the resources: a studio, recording equipment, engineers, and editors.

Our book, Religion of Sports, is OUT NOW! We explore you why sports aren’t just like a religion—we tell you why they are one. And we have help from some people you might have heard from: sharing never-before-heard stories about Tom Brady, Simone Biles, Kobe Bryant, Serena Williams, and many more.  Buy now! It didn’t look good. With three minutes left in the first quarter of the Miami Dolphins-Tennessee Titans game last week, Dolphins superstar Tyreek Hill writhed in pain.

👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free article ✨ of User Research Academy. Each week I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast, and every two weeks, I share an article with super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations. If you want to see everything I post, subscribe below! Tying the impact of research on metrics can be challenging. I struggled with it for a large part of my career.

Back in 2019 I put out a video essay analyzing System Erasure's previous game, ZeroRanger, mostly as a way of seeing if making video essays about games might be fun enough to spend time on. I really enjoyed that game, but I distinctly remember that after beating it for the first time that I felt a bit disappointed in the scarcity of the narrative content relative to its high quality. SE seems to have acausally taken that unspoken disappointment as a challenge because their excellent new Sokoban puzzler Void Stranger is a bottomless fucking rabbit hole of lore, plot, and secret endings.

The Spanish colonial empire controlled the massive Potosí silver mine in Bolivia, which produced most of the silver in the world. Here, the Spanish minted a silver dollar, which became known as "pieces of eight" in the English-speaking world. The name came from the fact that one Spanish silver dollar (Peso) was worth eight reals. It is easy to think about the silver dollar as the base unit. However, it was the Spanish real which was the currency and which got simply minted in ½, 1, 2, 4 and 8-real denominations.

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