Author: Thomas DelMundo

I’ve been discovering Bardcore, a new subgenre of music (April 2020) that takes modern songs and performs them in a Medieval style. I created this video of a Medieval remix of this 90’s club hit ‘What is Love’ by Haddaway. Cornelius Link (the originator of the genre) crafted and performed a brilliant Bardcore version of…

In the Star Trek universe, almost all of the Federation’s capital ships have one universal feature, the ‘Saucer Section’. This is often the main hull of the vessel, with some designs like the Miranda, NX, and Faraday class having no secondary-hull at all.. But why a saucer-shaped disk? What if the disk shape wasn’t just…

There’s been a lot of arguments about comparing US infection statistics versus other countries such as “You can’t compare the US because we have more people” or “We test more so we have more cases” all of which are true. But here are 3 charts normalized per million and per 1000’s of tests. So this…

“Confession means a lesser punishment, denial means guilt.” – a Chinese Communist Quote ‘Cancel Culture’ is nothing new. At the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) teachers, civic leaders, artists, musicians, actors, and common farmers, were rounded up by the mob and forced to ‘confess’ their sins against Communism. These ‘Struggle Sessions‘ were held…

A number of Internet theories and memes have cropped up since the death of George Floyd attempting to question the legitimacy and identity of the cops who were involved, as by questioning visual details in the images of the arrest. The meme below was shared by a friend who wanted to know if it could…

Jonathan Evans and Samantha Sutton wrote that Hawaiian shirts have become a symbol of White Supremacy. This should be a laughable article in The Onion or Babylon Bee, but it’s not satire. These were articles written for ‘In-Style Magazine’ and ‘Esquire’ (granted hardly an exemplar of investigative journalism). Instead, they are examples of ironic-fashion and media fear-mongering. Hawaiian…