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CIPC #299: Bernard Bear, Chess

Posted on November 23, 2022December 30, 2022

People often think that early childhood is a happy, carefree time where other people make your food, where you have no bills to pay, and…

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CIPC #273: Murun Buchstansangur, Problems Problems

Posted on May 17, 2022May 17, 2022

I have seen quite a few cartoons for this blog, but never something quite like Murun Buchstansangur. Most cartoons are about kids, anthropomorphised animals, or…

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CIPC #263: KikoRiki S2 E99, Chess

Posted on March 8, 2022March 8, 2022

It is a truth universally acknowledged that children are getting worse and worse at pretty much every subject in school. Almost every vaguely modern phenomenon…

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CIPC #204: B.C. June 9th, 2013

Posted on January 12, 2021

Last year, we started with some high-brow Culture with a capital C. As there is a widely supported consensus that 2020 was not one of…

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CIPC #196: Defenders of the Earth E5, Bits ‘n’ chips

Posted on November 10, 2020

Defenders of the Earth is an animated television series, starring three superheroes from American comics: Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Mandrake the magician. Together, the…

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CIPC #149: Gravity Falls, S1 E11: Little Dipper

Posted on December 10, 2019August 2, 2020

Gravity Falls is a critically acclaimed cartoon show produced by Disney about twelve-year-old twins Mabel and Dipper, who spend the summer holidays with their great-uncle…

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CIPC #102: Grand master rabbit

Posted on January 15, 2019

I’m not really sure were this cartoon comes from. It can easily be found on YouTube or Dailymotion, but none of the about five bazillion…

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CIPC #36: New Scientist No.3144

Posted on September 26, 2017

In der Beschränkung zeigt sich der Meister. In our days of niche studies and absurdly specific website, Goethe’s quote is more poignant than ever. Still,…

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Chess in popular culture

With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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