All posts tagged: Ruined

In the Wake of the Ruined by Kalie Cassidy

In the Wake of the Ruined by Kalie Cassidy

Published by Jenni Sidey

Kalie Cassidy’s debut, In the Veins of the Drowning, ended with Imogen Nel bleeding on a beach with a dead king’s crown looped around her arm like a shackle. “In the Wake of the Ruined” opens exactly there, in the sand, with her crawling. That image is the whole book in miniature: a woman who has finally won something and can barely carry it. In the Wake of the Ruined by Kalie Cassidy is the closing half of The Siren Mage duet, and it arrives with the specific pressures of a finale. It has to pay off a corrupted god-bond, a stalled romance, a stolen friend, a hostile council, and a wedding nobody in the book actually wants. It manages most of that with real force. And it also sags in the middle in ways worth naming honestly. Who this book is for Readers who want their fantasy romance to hurt before it heals Anyone who likes magic systems with a literal price list attached Fans of morally grey heroines who are genuinely frightening, not …

You Ruined My Life—Now You Owe Me!

You Ruined My Life—Now You Owe Me!

Published by Jenni Sidey

We hear a lot these days about struggling adult children and the heartbreak parents experience when communication is cut off. Yet far less attention is paid to a reality I see almost every day in my parent coaching practice: Parents who remain deeply involved in their adult children’s lives but feel trapped by ongoing crisis, dependence, and demands for help. In my forthcoming book, You Ruined My Life—Now You Owe Me!, I explore a huge dilemma that countless parents face today. Their adult child may be struggling with resentment, depression, anxiety, employment, finances, motivation, or independence. In these cases, their child has not “just walked away” but has not yet stepped into adulthood. The Staunchly Embedded Belief of Being Wronged by Their Parents One of the biggest misconceptions about struggling adult children is that they all fit the same profile. That is not the case. Some may struggle with anxiety, depression, ADHD, addiction, or chronic overthinking and indecision. Yet I have worked with parents of struggling adult children who hold impressive jobs, such as doctors, …

Gödel’s incompleteness theorem: The man who ruined mathematics

Gödel’s incompleteness theorem: The man who ruined mathematics

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Kurt Gödel, the man who ruined mathematics, was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. He was born in 1906, smack-bang in the middle of the greatest crisis that maths has ever known. Just a few decades later, he would help resolve this turmoil, but in doing so doom mathematicians to a smaller world than the one that came before. Mathematics, as an intellectual framework, is incredibly powerful. The entire point is taking one set of logical ideas and using them to build another, making maths the closest thing we have to a cognitive perpetual-motion machine – there is always a new mathematical idea lurking across the horizon, and we just need to assemble the steps to get there. Or so it might seem. But in reality, there is a dark fundamental truth at the heart of mathematics that places limits on our intellectual exploration. It is called Gödel’s incompleteness theorem. The story of this theorem begins in the late 19th century, when mathematicians had begun to unpick the foundations of their …