Category: creativity
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This is what 70 looks like on me. I’m in Stockholm with my genius partner Craig, who asked me what I wanted for my birthday while we were at the Royal Palace. I requested a box of chocolates, which we found conveniently in the Royal Palace gift shop. This is typical me, slightly disheveled, sweets…
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Meet the Brunkeberg Ridge Tunnel. Stockholm has a ridge running through it, thanks to ice age shenanigans. As the city grew up on either side of it, crossing it was a pain, especially in the age of power by horses. Then this genius entrepreneur talked the powers that be into letting him build a tunnel…
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Walking from the bus station to our inn, we stumbled upon a statue in a small square. It was a monument to science fiction great H.G. Wells, who wrote War of the Worlds in 1895 while living in Woking. That novel, one of the earliest alien invasion novels (Martians invade Earth), and its author weren’t…
