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I'm Marleena. A human in the business of human stories. Armed with an unusual background in creativity, performance and analysis.
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Academic | Research
In the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Iceland, a region of cooling water, dubbed the "Blue Blob", has been hypothesised to be halting glacial melting. It may continue to slow down ice loss until 2050.
Non-fungible tokens, also known as NFTs, captured the worlds attention with their use as a medium to buy and sell artistic goods supported by a digital agreement. Most NFTs circulated through the art world and became attached to that atmosphere of creation and sales, but a new study asks if NFTs can go beyond this medium, and into other arenas, disciplines, and marketplaces.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, particularly by computer systems. These processes include learning (the acquisition of information and rules for using the information), reasoning (using the rules to reach approximate or definite conclusions), and self-correction.
Entertainment | Gaming
Cozy mysteries are typically associated with stories that feature an amateur detective, with most of the violence and sexual themes dialed down or shown off-screen. The crime and sleuthing of said crimes are often investigated in a smaller space, and the characters often always know or come to know the sleuth in question.
The dawn of the 90s came with a new era of detective fiction television. Out of this boom were popular murder mystery series such as Murder, She Wrote and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (one of the many adaptations of the prolific detective to the television screen), but the show that has arguably placed a blueprint for what we know as long-form detective television today was Columbo .
Batman started out as this cartoon my dad loved to watch. He would hog the television and we had no choice but to sit there and watch whatever he had on.
Travel | Food
Is it for you? Whether it's your first time or your hundredth, welcome back pathfinder! Summer is coming back around, and people are finding time to travel! Even if it is in your own country, or within your state, human beings are starved for that outside time that we didn't get within the last two years as COVID kept everyone inside.
One of my best friends from Texas just came in to visit me, and when I tell you I was ready with the recommendations, we made sure we did all we could in the short amount of time that they were...
Let me start off by saying these are not definitive categories! Pathfinders come in all shapes, types, and sizes. At the end of the day, there is no box - with that being said, I find a lot of these...
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