Welcome to the Dark Side

 Dear Reader,

Knowledge is supposed to be light. Happy. An age of darkness happens when knowledge is stagnant.

Well, screw that. Personally, I find knowledge to be much more like the comforting night: sweet, soothing, and ever-constant. Too much light gets you burned, but you can never have too much darkness.

Well, unless it’s a black hole. But one could argue that the knowledge is a black hole, a speck of infinite gravity. 

I digress, however. I don’t need to bore you before we’ve even been properly introduced.

My name is Leila.  

Ever since I was a child, the shadows of what I know have haunted me. It’s a comforting darkness, like turning out the lights before I go to sleep. I get to rest in the knowledge that E=MC2 and the Boston Tea Party was on December 16, 1773. Not the most interesting information I know, but reassuring nonetheless.  

But I have much more interesting shadows. For example, did you know that people in Europe used to eat ground-up mummies? Or that the Olympics used to have categories for the arts? 

So I’m going to let you in on some information. Maybe some historical secrets, maybe some scientific achievements.

I don’t know everything, but I’ll do my best to tell you what I do. Welcome to the dark side.

-L.E.A.

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