For the Minaal team members in New Zealand, it's starting to get very cold indeed. Hopefully that means those of you "up there" are thawing out a bit.
To help dust the icicles from eyelashes and get blood flowing, here's our roundup of spicy stats, one-liners, and deep dives.
And as always β the $50 survey is down below π
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Congrats to Jonas, our latest survey winner!
On his favourite place: "Iceland is a most unique place where you can experience the stunning forces of nature first-hand. You can hike to a glacier and have the best view ever, relax in a hot spring, get splashed by massive waterfalls (see image), and feel like you're on another planet in one of the black ash deserts."
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There are divorces, and there are writers. There are also writers who publish books about their divorces. But what about a writer married to another writer, who cheated on them with another writer, who is also married to a writer? And what happens when all four of those writers subsequently publish books or poems about what happened?
Of course what happens is that yet another writer writes an article about it. It's a gripping and all-too-human story. As the article puts it: 'Somewhere in the void between βWrite what you knowβ and βDo no harmβ sits a whole world of possibility.' |
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Lots of people get scammed out of $50,000 β but most of them aren't financial-advice columnists for New York magazine.
The surprises lurking in this somewhat terrifying read don't end there. For example, did you know that younger adults are 34% more likely to report losing money to fraud, compared to someone over 60? Or that your level of education makes no difference to your gullibility? If you're confident that you'd never fall for a scam, and have an impression that all scammers are ridiculously inept, this could be the reality check you need. |
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On a very related note: sometimes scams succeed and sometimes they implode, but it's not often that they end with the con artist "retreating to a remote armed compound in the jungle, and declaring himself the islandsβ king."That's exactly what Noah Musingku did after his Ponzi scheme began to teeter. The creation and continued survival of His Majesty's personal kingdom is a tale of human folly. It also ties into the bigger story of Bougainville's push for independence from Papua New Guinea, which is becoming an unlikely focal point of US-China tensions. |
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Want easy money, but don't want to join a Ponzi scheme? Answer two quick questions for a chance to win $50 store credit.
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As always: let us know what you liked, what you'd like to see more of, your preferred papal candidate, that sorta thing.
J, D, & the Minaal team
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