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MJ Banias

  • Senior Analyst, Sapper Labs Group
Canada, Winnipeg
As seen in: Substack, The Globe and Mail, VICE, VICE UK, Futurism, Popular Mechanics, Yahoo, RealClear Science, Coast to Coast AM, The Debrief Media and
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I investigate things and sometimes tell stories. | Co-founder @debriefmedia | OSINT is life. 🇺🇦

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A Free OSINT Lesson: Fashion, Optics, and Paper Trails

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By MJ Banias
| Bullsh*t Hunting
There’s a certain kind of guy who is genuinely hard to find. Not hard like a fugitive; he isn’t hiding. He files things. He shows up in registries; he has companies. Those companies have addresses, and the addresses are all real. It’s just that those addresses aren’t where he lives.
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An Ancient Egyptian Moon God Mystery Deepens with New Analysis Revealing Thoth’s Sacred Baboon Glowed Like Moonlight

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By MJ Banias
| The Debrief Media
The silvery fur of the hamadryas baboon is, under a spectrometer, nearly the exact color of moonlight, which may explain why ancient Egyptians made a monkey the face of their moon god, according to a new study in Time and Mind. The work, from biological anthropologist Nathaniel Dominy of Dartmouth College and primatologist Catherine Hobaiter of the University of St Andrews, takes an old Egyptological question and points an instrument at it.
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The “Einstein Tile” That Broke Math Is Now Twisting Light Into Pinwheels

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By MJ Banias
| The Debrief Media
The 13-sided tile that solved a half-century-old math problem, discovered by an amateur mathematician at his kitchen table in 2022, turns out to bend light into a twisting pinwheel unlike anything produced by an ordinary crystal, according to a new study in Nature Communications.
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