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Sep 28, 2024 | 
factorytwofour.com | Petar Petrov
The recreational driving experience is as much about the car as it is about the backdrop. Same way video games have evolved into an experience that is as much of a form of entertainment as it is a form of art.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
factorytwofour.com | Petar Petrov
As we covered in the last piece of the series, there’s hardly a right or wrong way to collect Hot Wheels because as with all forms of art, the die-cast cars’ beauty is in the eye of their beholder. That being said, there are certain Hot Wheels whose beauty is in the eyes of virtually any Hot Wheels collector, beholder or not.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
factorytwofour.com | Petar Petrov
Hot Wheels have long stopped being just miniature toys. The die-cast cars not only possess all the signature attributes that turn fans into collectors – boundless diversity, exquisite details, and historically significant characteristics, but something else as well, something that turns Hot Wheels collectors into members of a cultural movement, borderline family.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
factorytwofour.com | Petar Petrov
For millions of people around the world, Hot Wheels is the fastest mode of time travel back to their childhoods. These flashy lightning bolts are not just miniature versions of some of America’s most historic cars, but compact, vibrant pieces of American culture as a whole.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
factorytwofour.com | Petar Petrov
School, sports, the military – that’s where kids usually lay the cornerstones of adulthood. I, on the other hand, was introduced to certain universal values through a more unlikely activity, in fact, the very activity which is generally considered to debilitate them – video games. I used to spend my summer vacations at my uncle’s house, a video game wonderland. I would pass hours watching my cousin playing these amazing games which to my young mind looked like straight-up magic.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
factorytwofour.com | Petar Petrov
Apart from some pragmatic reasons for deciding to pursue higher education in Scotland, like it being free for example, I was blindly led by overly adventurous motifs, to the extent they actually ended up preventing me from making the most of my escapade. Some planning for an adventure might not be such a spoiler after all, as it turned out. I wanted my first step into adulthood to be something more of a leap.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Jonathan Remis |Petar Petrov |Jessie Zhang |Jeremy Axelrod
AbstractApoferritin (apoF) is commonly used as a test specimen in single-particle electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM), since it consistently produces density maps that go to 0.3 nm resolution or higher. When we imaged apoF with a laser phase plate (LPP), however, we observed more severe particle-to-particle variation in the images than we had previously thought to exist.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
factorytwofour.com | Petar Petrov
“What do we want? – We don’t know. When do we want it? – Now!” Add “Why” and “How” to the famous meme and you get an accurate representation of some of the misguided, self-righteous marches we’ve witnessed over the last couple of years. Here are the top 5 meaningless protests which proved that changing the world is a process much more complex and demanding than a lot of activists would find convenient. A meaningful protest should serve a larger purpose than your sense of social superiority.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
factorytwofour.com | Petar Petrov
Your alarm didn’t ring, and now you’re late. “Not today,” you’re thinking as you jump out of bed in a panic. You spill coffee on your favorite shirt in your frantic rush – congratulations; now you’re even further behind schedule. Your car doesn’t start, then you’re stuck in traffic, nearly breaking into tears of frustration. You finally make it out of the jam, time to step it up and some guy cuts you off.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
factorytwofour.com | Petar Petrov
Some fans of rationalizing and deduction logic argue that money, in fact, does buy happiness. Other more poetic souls believe happiness is a concept too elusive to pin down or simply purchase. Surely, you can’t buy happiness the way you buy your favorite chocolate bars. However, neither does being broke make you walk on sunshine, unless maybe you spent your last money on heroin. Scientists have found that money does buy you something though.
