Reuben Blaff
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Astrophysics graduate student at York University | Editor and co-founder at spkesy.ca
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Mill Pond
I always seem to get my best thinking done at Mill Pond. I’m not sure what it is about the place—the natural beauty, the wildlife, the solitude (well, generally)—but when I’m there, the fog perpetually clouding my mind lifts, and suddenly, I can think clearly.
By Reuben Blaff4 years ago in Fiction
The Curious Case of Robert Lincoln. Top Story - March 2021.
On April 14th, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the Presidential Box in Ford’s Theatre during a performance of Our American Cousin and shot Abraham Lincoln (ultimately, killing him). This is a fact known to most everyone in the Western world. What fewer are aware of is that the night Honest Abe was assassinated, his son Robert Lincoln was invited to join him at Ford’s Theatre for the show. Robert chose to stay home, fatigued from having spent much time recently on the Civil War battlefront.
By Reuben Blaff5 years ago in FYI
The Man Behind the Peanut
Peanuts. That’s what most people think of when they think about George Washington Carver, the famed African American scientist and inventor. And while peanuts did play a big part in his life, there’s so much more to Carver’s story than just his work with everyone’s favourite ballpark snack…
By Reuben Blaff5 years ago in FYI
