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Writes about art and history for @bigthink. Also seen in @vulture, @jacobin, @JSTOR_Daily, @newlinesmag + more. Opinions my own.
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What does "6-7" mean? We'll tell you so you don't have to ask

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How Best to Look at Russian History

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Foreign Policy Magazine
Many history books about Russia and the Soviet Union published in recent years are microhistories: scholarship that looks at the past as through a microscope, prioritizing the minutiae of everyday life over wars, government changes, economic cycles, and other large-scale events. One recent example is Yuri Slezkine’s The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (2017), about the private lives of Bolshevik elites who shared an apartment building.
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Another YouTube phenomenon crashed theaters this weekend

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The Last Battle of World War II Took Place on a Small Island You Probably Never Heard Of

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Yahoo Life
North of the Netherlands lies the Wadden Sea, a protected natural area where low tide exposes sandbanks that connect the Dutch mainland to five islands. The smallest of these islands - Schiermonnikoog - houses but a single village with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants. But in a way, this small island has left a big mark on history: during the Second World War, it was the last place in Europe to be freed from Nazi occupation. The Nazis first arrived on Schiermonnikoog on May 15, 1940.
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The Last Battle of World War II Took Place on a Small Island You Probably Never Heard Of

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The Last Battle of World War II Took Place on a Small Island You Probably Never Heard Of

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Mental Floss
North of the Netherlands lies the Wadden Sea, a protected natural area where low tide exposes sandbanks that connect the Dutch mainland to five islands. The smallest of these islands – Schiermonnikoog – houses but a single village with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants. But in a way, this small island has left a big mark on history: during the Second World War, it was the last place in Europe to be freed from Nazi occupation.
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3 Historical Figures People Really Thought Were Vampires

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Mental Floss
Throughout history, powerful and eccentric individuals have been suspected or persecuted for vampirism. Here are some of them. Mouth with vampire fangs with striped background | Polinmrrr / Shutterstock Nowadays, courtesy of Bram Stoker’s novel Draculaand early film adaptations like Nosferatu, we generally think of vampires as pale-skinned people with sharp teeth, dark robes, and sometimes, pointy ears.
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Another YouTube Phenomenon Is Crashing Theaters This Weekend

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Vulture
The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act is an indie animated film — and it already beat He-Man, Scary Movie, and Backrooms at the box office on Thursday. If you spend a lot of time on YouTube, you may have come across The Amazing Digital Circus, the viral animated series whose 2023 debut episode took the internet by storm and amassed more than 430 million views, the kind of numbers normally reserved for the likes of Mr.Beast, Cocomelon, or Charlie Bit My Finger.
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The US town that's been burning underground for decades

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The U.S. Town That’s Been Burning Underground for Decades

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Mental Floss
At a glance, Centralia, Pennsylvania looks like an ordinary American ghost town: asphalt roads split open, graffiti on nearly every square inch of surface, and abandoned homes and public buildings suspended in time. Stick around, however, and you may notice tufts of smoke or on rainy days, steam, rising from below the ground. That’s because Centralia is on fire. Or, more specifically, the system of coal mines underneath Centralia are on fire.
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The Strange Story of the Village That Supposedly Vanished Without Any Explanation

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Mental Floss
In November 1930, a fur trapper named Joe LaBelle stopped by Lake Anjikuni in the Northwest Territories of Canada. There was a small Inuit village next to this lake, one he had visited before, and where he knew he would be welcome. Expecting to be greeted as warmly the cold weather permitted, the trapper instead found this village completely deserted.
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The Strange Story of the Village That Supposedly Vanished Without Any Explanation

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Yahoo Life
In November 1930, a fur trapper named Joe LaBelle stopped by Lake Anjikuni in the Northwest Territories of Canada. There was a small Inuit village next to this lake, one he had visited before, and where he knew he would be welcome. Expecting to be greeted as warmly the cold weather permitted, the trapper instead found this village completely deserted.
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The Strange Story of the Village That Supposedly Vanished Without Any Explanation

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Flipboard
Why attending university closer to home could be a game changer for Inuit Months before graduating from university Inuujaq Leslie Fredlund almost gave up. "Did I make a mistake? Like, what am I doing here?" Fredlund said in …
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Assassin's Creed emprende un camino interesante, pero no es el que yo escogería

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By Mario Seijas , Tim Brinkhof 
| IGN Spain
Por mucho que me guste Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, no puedo evitar pensar que el remake Resynced, anunciado recientemente, es una señal de que la franquicia está luchando por mantenerse a flote, incapaz para siempre de estar a la altura de la calidad y la relevancia cultural de sus primeros títulos. Black Flag fue, posiblemente, el último gran éxito de la franquicia: el último que cautivó a casi todo el mundo, el último que aún se percibió como un auténtico acontecimiento.
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Does "Dopamine Fasting" Actually Work?

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Mental Floss
If you live in Silicon Valley—or are active on social media—you’ve probably heard of the term “dopamine fasting.” Basically, it’s a trend where you try to avoid external stimuli like phones and computer screens for a certain period of time. Proponents claim that dopamine fasting can “reboot” your brain, reduce stress and fatigue, and improve your ability to appreciate and derive pleasure from ordinary activities, among other benefits.
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‘The Boys’ Is Over. Its Questions for Trump’s Evangelicals Remain

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Sojourners
Amazon Prime’s The Boys wrapped up its fifth and final season last week, and its overarching theme was: faith. After becoming the de facto CEO of Vought and president of the United States, antagonist Homelander—a narcissistic Superman foil, wrapped in the American flag and played to perfection by Antony Starr—still isn’t satisfied.
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One of Rome's Biggest Victories Was Won By… the Backpack

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Mental Floss
Today, Gaius Marius is most famous for being Julius Caesar’s uncle by marriage. Back in his own day, however, he was known for many other things as well, including mandating the use of backpacks at a critical moment in Roman military history. Who Was Gaius Marius? Drawing of Gaius Marius | Print Collector/GettyImages Born in a small Italian town outside Rome, he was a provincial of unremarkable birth who climbed to senatorial rank, making him a so-called “new man” (or novus homo).
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One of Rome's Biggest Victories Was Won By... the Backpack

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Yahoo Life
Today, Gaius Marius is most famous for being Julius Caesar's uncle by marriage. Back in his own day, however, he was known for many other things as well, including mandating the use of backpacks at a critical moment in Roman military history. Born in a small Italian town outside Rome, he was a provincial of unremarkable birth who climbed to senatorial rank, making him a so-called "new man" (or novus homo).
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How one embarrassing accident may have nearly derailed Julius Caesar's rise to power

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How One Embarrassing Accident May Have Nearly Derailed Julius Caesar’s Rise to Power

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Mental Floss
In 47 BC, Julius Caesar sailed to North Africa to mop up the remaining forces of his longtime rival, Pompey the Great, and the anti-Caesarian factions of the Senate. Pompey himself had been killed the year before, betrayed by courtiers of the Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy XIII in an attempt to ingratiate themselves to Rome’s new master. But although Caesar was on the cusp of becoming the undisputed ruler of the Republic, he nearly tripped before the finish line.
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How One Embarrassing Accident May Have Nearly Derailed Julius Caesar's Rise to Power

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Yahoo Life
In 47 BC, Julius Caesar sailed to North Africa to mop up the remaining forces of his longtime rival, Pompey the Great, and the anti-Caesarian factions of the Senate. Pompey himself had been killed the year before, betrayed by courtiers of the Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy XIII in an attempt to ingratiate themselves to Rome's new master. But although Caesar was on the cusp of becoming the undisputed ruler of the Republic, he nearly tripped before the finish line.
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Assassin’s Creed Is Going to Ancient Rome on Netflix, but It’d Make a Better Video Game

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| IGN India
As much as I like Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, I cannot help but think the recently announced Resynced remake is a sign that the franchise is struggling to stay afloat, forever incapable of living up to the quality and cultural relevance of its first fistful of games. Black Flag was, arguably, the franchise’s last big win – the last to be beloved by nearly everyone, the last to still feel like a genuine event.
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Assassin’s Creed Is Going to Ancient Rome on Netflix, but It’d Make a Better Video Game

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Flipboard
2 hours ago Cheering crowds, fast horses, dramatic accidents, and even a little sorcery made up a typical day of chariot racing in Rome as thousands flocked to watch their favorite spectator sport. According to Livy, Rome’s Circus Maximus—the hippodrome nestled between the Palatine and Aventine Hills—was the …
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How ‘The Boys’ Became a Satire on Donald Trump

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Africa Pulse
By Tim Brinkhof , a journalist writing about culture, art, and politics.
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‘The Boys’ Turned Superhero Satire Against American Politics

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Foreign Policy Magazine
The Boys came a long way in the five seasons between its 2019 debut and the final episode on May 20.
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The power of story to find history’s lost voices — starting with Pompeii

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Big Think
A literature column to feed your curiosity. History and SocietyAncient HistoryArchaeologyNarrativeHistorical Narratives “The bittersweet memory of that day, eighteen years ago, had never left him. It was the second time he had been sold in his short lifetime, reduced to nothing more than a name and number scratched on a wax tablet, and still no one came to save him. He sometimes saw Poppaea in the streets.
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TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates

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By Shannon Keating , Ryan Huling, Tim Brinkhof 
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by Gary Barker and Elizabeth Weingarten
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Searching for Elephants in the Angolan Highlands

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Earth Island Journal
Magazine : Spring 2026 : in review In Review: Ghost Elephants Tim Brinkhof WERNER HERZOG FAMOUSLY does not like to explain himself. This goes for all aspects of his films, from the scripts and cinematography to the characters, be they human or animal. “Many of my films contain animals …” he once said, “but I have no abstract concepts to offer that might explain how a particular animal signifies this or that.” His latest film, Ghost Elephants, begs to differ.
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The case against backpacking

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The Case Against Backpacking Original

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| TIME
One night, while backpacking in Guatemala, I was woken up by a pain in my leg. Nearly bumping my head against the upper bunk of the hostel bed, I pulled away the blanket only to find nothing. Confused, I tried going back to sleep, but couldn’t. The pain was still there, and getting worse. Certain I’d been bitten or stung, I got up to properly shake out the blanket, and onto the floor dropped a small, brown scorpion.
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‘Project Hail Mary’ and the Politics of Science Fiction

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Foreign Policy Magazine
Project Hail Mary—a space opera starring and co-produced by Ryan Gosling—is shaping up to be one of the biggest films of the year, earning more than $550 million at the box office worldwide since it opened on March 20 and garnering rave reviews from critics and general audiences alike. In recent weeks, however, this seemingly innocuous movie has also become the subject of an unlikely controversy that raises questions about technoliberalism, author intent, and the politics of science fiction.
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GTA 6 Could Learn a Few Lessons From Bully, Rockstar’s Schoolyard Gem

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| IGN India
Everyone has their own expectations for Grand Theft Auto 6. While many hope it will live up to the dizzying standards set by GTA 5 and Read Dead Redemption 2, I’d actually like the next installment in the franchise to be less like recent hits and more like GTA 4, San Andreas, and the original Read Dead – games that had more restraint and, as a result, more focus. Above all, though, I wish the upcoming game would take a page from the textbook of one of the Rockstar’s most overlooked titles: Bully.
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GTA 6 Could Learn a Few Lessons From Bully, Rockstar’s Schoolyard Gem

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Flipboard
Total War: Warhammer 40k's map reveals fill me with faith that Creative Assembly can handle the setting's absurd scale Replayability is going to be important as we fight across the stars. If someone told me two years back that Creative Assembly was actually going to …
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4 literary masterpieces that make you despise the protagonist by the end

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Big Think
A literature column to feed your curiosity. History and SocietyPhilosophyMind and BehaviorPsychologyStorytelling This article was first published on Big Think in July 2023. It was updated in April 2026. Many of world literature’s most unlikable protagonists start unlikeable and end unlikeable. From the very beginning of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, it is clear that the titular Gray is a narcissist who’ll do anything to inflate his already monstrous ego.
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Werner Herzog and What Makes a Life Worth Filming

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Sojourners
“Romantic” may not be the first word that comes to mind when talking about Werner Herzog—known for such charming expressions as “I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony but chaos, hostility, and murder”—yet it is, perhaps, one of the most appropriate. The German filmmaker can be considered a romantic in both the contemporary-everyday and historical-philosophical sense.
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The Buddhism of Yasujiro Ozu

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Tricycle Buddhist Magazine
Some filmmakers have a voice and vision so distinct, they become their own adjectives. Hitchcockian means suspenseful and voyeuristic, while Lynchian evokes things eerie, surreal, and perhaps a little quaint. Ozuesque—after Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu—often calls to mind words like “serene,” “contemplative,” and “Zen-like.” At a glance, such characterizations seem fitting. Much of Ozu’s filmography, like the often celebrated Late Spring and Tokyo Story, is quiet and slow-paced.
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Damned and Drowning: The Arrested Development of Dutch Film

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Notebook
A nostalgia-baiting sequel to the decades-old hit “Amsterdamned” embodies the current crisis of the nation’s cinema. Amsterdamned II (Dick Maas, 2025) A rich American couple takes a romantic cruise through Amsterdam at midnight. The mood, despite champagne and string lights, is anything but amorous. The canals stink, the houses are tiny and old, and the woman, for one, can’t wait for them to fly on to their next destination: Dubai.
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The United States of Westeros

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Foreign Policy Magazine
Politics Geopolitics United States For many viewers, the first season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms seems like a breath of fresh Westeros air. Set around a century before the events depicted in Game of Thrones, it ditches the complex, generational power struggles and large ensemble casts that typify the original series and House of the Dragon, another prequel. Instead, HBO’s latest collaboration with fantasy author George R.R. Martin tells a shorter, simpler, sweeter tale.
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From myth to machine: The technological evolution of storytelling

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By Tim Brinkhof 
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7 hours ago According to The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI is planning a big pivot with its app strategy, streamlining its Mac apps for ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas into a single ‘superapp.’ OpenAI ‘superapp’ will combine ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas Berber Jin writes at The Wall Street Journal: OpenAI is planning to unify …
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AI는 게임을 바꿀 것이다, 하지만 CEO들이 생각하는 방식은 아니다

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| IGN Korea
2024년, 회사 인력의 5%를 감원한 직후, 일렉트로닉 아츠 CEO 앤드루 윌슨은 무대에 올라 생성형 AI가 어떻게 게임 산업을 한 단계 끌어올릴 수 있는지 열변을 토했다. 마치 대형 언어 모델이 그대로 뱉어낸 듯한 대본을 따라가며, 그는 머신러닝 도구가 개발자들에게 “창작을 펼칠 수 있는 기하급수적으로 더 넓은 캔버스와, 더 눈부신 세계를 그릴 수 있는 더 풍부한 색채”를 제공할 것이라고 말했다. 이 글과 비슷한 콘텐츠유소나, IGN KOREA 신입사원 지원?! | 인턴유소나 티저 물론 이런 약속을 한 경영진은 그만이 아니다. 하지만 AI가 게임 개발에 정확히 어떤 영향을 미칠지에 대해서는 우리가 처음 챗GPT를 접했을 때와 마찬가지로 여전히 모호하다. 일렉트로닉 아츠와 유비소프트, 레메디 엔터테인먼트, 라리안 스튜디오처럼 이 흐름에 올라타려는 곳이 있는가 하면, 반대로 장벽과 포탑을 세우는 이들도 있다.
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AI Will Change Games, but Not in the Way CEOs Think

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| IGN India
Back in 2024, not long after laying off five percent of the company’s workforce, EA CEO Andrew Wilson got on a stage to wax poetic about all the ways generative AI would help take the gaming industry to the next level.
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How to conquer pressure - the Jim Belushi way

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Big Think
BusinessEmotional IntelligenceResilienceCommunicationLifelong Learning Sometimes, when Jim Belushi feels anxious, he tells himself he’s actually just stoked. “Physiologically,” the actor, comedian, and entrepreneur tells Big Think, “what happens to your body when you’re nervous or fearful is exactly the same thing as what happens when you’re excited,” so all you need to do is flip a switch.
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How to conquer pressure — the Jim Belushi way | Flipboard

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Flipboard
9 hours ago The daughter of the late rocker remembered speaking to her dad two days before he died. The daughter of late music icon David Bowie and supermodel Iman recently spoke about her struggles with mental health and how it affected her final years with her father, who died in 2016. Alexandria Jones, who …
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La Guerra contra las Drogas en la Unión Soviética: Por Qué su Lógica Nunca Terminó

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| El Planteo
“El flagelo de toda la Rusia Soviética es la cocaína”, escribió Tatiana Kuranina, una noble rusa, poco después de la Revolución Bolchevique de 1917.
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¿Debería la trilogía remake de God of War recuperar los minijuegos sexuales?

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By Mario Sanchez, Mario Sánchez, Tim Brinkhof 
| IGN Spain
La semana pasada de febrero de 2026, durante el State of Play, después de años de esperanzas y especulaciones, Santa Monica Studio de Sony anunció que reharán la trilogía original de God of War. T.C. Carson, el actor de voz original de Kratos, se puso frente a la cámara para revelar que el proyecto se encuentra en las etapas “muy tempranas” de desarrollo, y que tendremos que esperar un poco más para que se respondan nuestras preguntas. Y son muchas preguntas.
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Should the God of War Trilogy Remake Bring Back the Sex Minigames?

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| IGN India
Last week, after years of hopeful speculation, Sony's Santa Monica Studio announced it will be remaking the original God of War trilogy. T.C. Carson, the original voice actor behind Kratos, stepped in front of the camera to reveal that the project is in the “very early” stages of development, and that we’ll have to wait a little longer for any of our questions to be answered. And there are a lot of questions.
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Seals Are Seemingly Vanishing Off the Dutch Coast. These Scientists Are Trying to Get to the Bottom of the Mysterious Disappearances

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Smithsonian Magazine
Recent counts of the Wadden Sea’s adult harbor seal population have revealed a surprising trend of decline, prompting a consortium of researchers to investigate whether the animals are dying off, relocating or experiencing something else altogether Amid floating beer cans and discarded bicycles, a juvenile harbor seal was seen swimming through the canals of Amsterdam on September 18.
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The Creatures That Devoured Leningrad

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| buff.ly
One of the first victims of the Siege of Leningrad was Betty. She had arrived in the city in 1911 and quickly established herself as an important part of her community. On 8 September 1941 – just a day before the siege began – German bombers attacked her home, causing it to collapse on top of her. Caught beneath rubble too heavy to move, she spent her final moments crying out in agony and terror.
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Para que la serie de God of War funcione, necesita un nuevo enfoque de la violencia

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By Estrella Díaz Gómez, Tim Brinkhof 
| IGN Spain
A simple vista, hay muchas razones para tener al menos un poco de esperanza en los planes de Prime Video de adaptar la duología nórdica de God of War. Ronald D. Moore es un showrunner de probada solvencia, que ha dirigido Galáctica: Estrella de Combate y Outlander, entre otras series. Y Ryan Hurst, que interpretó a Thor en God of War: Ragnarok, es un protagonista prometedor, aunque sorprendente.
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‘Wat een puinbak daar in de VS, hè?’

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By Tim Brinkhof 
| Het Financieele Dagblad
Wanneer deze zoekterm in een artikel voorkomt, zult u deze terugvinden in Mijn nieuws onder ‘Eurobonds’. Wilt u via de FD App meldingen ontvangen voor dit onderwerp? Wilt u via de FD App meldingen ontvangen voor dit onderwerp? Meldingen ontvangen Geen meldingen
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