Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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JESSE BISIWU: The “Contortionist” Arrives
When FC Barcelona officially announced the signing of 18-year-old Belgian prodigy Jesse Bisiwu from Club Brugge on July 31, 2026, it signaled a continued emphasis on elite youth recruitment. In a deal worth an estimated €8.5 million base fee—plus a 20% sell-on clause retained by the Belgian club—Barça secured one of European football’s most raw…
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ANTHONY GORDON : From Tyneside to Camp Nou
With 10 Champions League goals last season and elite pressing capabilities, the English winger brings pure dynamism to Catalonia. When word first broke that FC Barcelona were closing in on Anthony Gordon, the general reaction across European football ranged from bemusement to outright disbelief. A hard-working, direct English winger leaving St. James’ Park for Camp…
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KARIM ADEYEMI: Flick’s Speed Merchant
Reunited five years after his international debut, Adeyemi arrives at Barcelona looking to turn raw acceleration into European glory. When FC Barcelona announced the acquisition of Karim Adeyemi from Borussia Dortmund for a base fee of €22 million (plus €7 million in performance add-ons), European football’s transfer market took a noticeable breath. In an era…
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RODRI HERNANDEZ: The €75M Blitz
From a quiet verbal agreement in Madrid to a blockbuster deal in Catalonia In what stands as one of the defining transfers of the 2026 summer window, FC Barcelona have finalized a blockbuster agreement with Manchester City to sign midfielder Rodri. Fresh off captaining Spain to their second-ever World Cup glory in the MetLife stadium…
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Jorge Messi – The Architect of Greatness
Long before he was lifting Champions League trophies or collecting Ballon d’Ors, Lionel Messi was just a tiny, football-obsessed kid running around the working-class neighborhood of Las Heras in Rosario, Argentina. Born in 1987, Leo grew up in a tight-knit family where football was less of a past-time and more of a daily ritual. From…
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The Great Oxidation event
Imagine standing on Earth 2.5 billion years ago. The skies aren’t blue, they are murky orange, choked with methane and carbon dioxide. Oceans glisten with a pale green hue due to high concentrations of dissolved iron. There is no ozone layer, no land plants, and crucial to our existence, no free oxygen in the air.…
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“Pre-historic” eras
The history of earth is primarily divided into 3 eras – Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic. Before the paleozoic era, the archean and the proterozoic eras where majorly single and multicellular microscopic organisms existed. There was an event called great oxidation event arount 2.4 billion years ago which gave rise to multicellular organisms. HADEAN ERA About Hadean…
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History of US
There have been several inflection points throughout the human history that inevitably culminate to today – right from the discovery of fire to the ever evolving LLMs of today. Earth has witnessed many events right from its birth some 4 billion years ago. Life formed on earth around 3.6 billion years ago – How? Although…
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