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6 days ago
3 min

Ten RUSH Songs I Would Recommend for Beginners

There are over 160 songs by the band Rush. However, many of them are quite complicated songs, and they are not easily accessible or unde...

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Michael Curzan

Jul 10
1 min

We raised over $404,000 together!

It was an honor to be part of the 2020 St. Jude Leadership Society. It was quite unexpected to be fundraising during a global pandemic, b...

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Michael Curzan

Jul 8
3 min

RUSH Worst and Best Part 3

I think it is time for another worst and best list of Rush songs, so here are the next three albums, ranked from worst to best, in my opi...

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Michael Curzan

Jul 8
4 min

The Worst and Best of Caress of Steel and 2112

After I ranked the songs on Fly by Night, I decided to rank some more albums. So, here are two more Rush albums, ranked in my personal o...

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Michael Curzan

Jun 8
9 min

Primes and Semi Primes

You may have heard of the Sieve of Eratosthenes, which is a way to find out what all the prime numbers are. A prime number is a number l...

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Michael Curzan

May 30
2 min

Worst to Best of Fly by Night

The Canadian band Rush has produced many hit songs, but there are still some songs that are better than others. Here I will be looking a...

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Michael Curzan

Apr 21
3 min

A Look at Song Lengths.

The Canadian progressive rock band Rush is known for their extra-long multi-part songs. These were common in their early albums from the...

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Michael Curzan

Apr 13
1 min

Studying the German Language

A few months ago, I began learning the German language. Now, I know enough to be able to read and comprehend a very simple children's bo...

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Michael Curzan

Mar 22
10 min

A Story About Encryption...

In March of 2015, beloved author Terry Pratchett, creator of the Discworld series, passed away. It is now just over five years later, an...

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Michael Curzan

Mar 5
3 min

Fermi Calculation of Populations and Housing

I believe that by the middle of the century, it could be possible to have a home for every person in the world, as well as every subseque...

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Michael Curzan

Mar 1
1 min

This Leap Year 2020, I am partnering with St. Jude

Leap Year 2020: Every four years, there is an extra day. This is because the Earth takes around 365 and one quarter days to go around th...

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Michael Curzan

Feb 16
5 min

Playing With Setting

I have been playing around with setting and thought I would share it with you here... My setting is an entire fictional realm, which is r...

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Michael Curzan

Jan 9
1 min

Mathematical Exercises and Proofs

In the second image, we have a sketch of a possible tiling of a rectangle using different sizes of squares. We then calculate how long a...

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Michael Curzan

Oct 23, 2019
1 min

What would you like to see next?

Have you checked out my designs on zazzle? What products would you like to see next? https://www.zazzle.com/store/michaelcurzan/products

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Michael Curzan

Aug 28, 2019
1 min

Euphony and Cacophony Poetry

Volcano by Michael Curzan Beneath the Earth, immense masses of magma move. Bubbling brimstone bursts from the ground. A catastrophic crac...

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Michael Curzan

Aug 25, 2019
1 min

Playing with the Guitar

I have been taking guitar lessons for a few weeks now. Here is a video of me playing around with something that sounds fun. Enjoy! https...

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Michael Curzan

Aug 23, 2019
17 min

The Effects of New Developments on Trefoil World.

All in all, Trefoil world, now united by the bridges of rainbow, was doing fine. It was rather stable, and its three groups of gods were...

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Michael Curzan

Aug 3, 2019
22 min

Friday Freewrite: A Dozen and One Worlds. Or: The Trefoil of Water.

(A crossover between different myths--Greek, Norse, and the popular World Turtle from India.) There was a huge turtle swimming through sp...

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Michael Curzan

Aug 2, 2019
2 min

A letter to William Shakespeare regarding his Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold

Dear Sir, I have just received your most recent Sonnet. I have read and enjoyed it. Yet, it would feel amiss if I did not point out the...

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Michael Curzan

Jul 17, 2019
3 min

Three Role Models

Three people whom I admire as role models are Rene Descartes, Danny Elfman, and Terry Pratchett. Rene Descartes is a famous mathematicia...

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