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Thanks to all the students, faculty, staff, and family who joined us to serve meals in Pittsburgh on this Holy Friday! — SHU Service/Campus Ministry

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Just look at the light on this Mary Cassatt painting

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Quantity leads to quality – Austin Kleon

Anecdote: [A] ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on…

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The Assignment #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 5) Keiko is not herself after a trip to Bajor’s haunted Fire Caves; Rom hopes to impress O’Brien

Rewatching ST:DS9 On a bustling morning in Quark's, Rom sours his brother's good mood by ordering human cuisine -- O'Brien's…

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A surprising detail in bank records helped a historian bust a longstanding myth about Irish immigrants

A scholar uses bank records to track the surge of Murphys and Sullivans and Kellys who emigrated to New York…

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Microsoft is once again asking Chrome users to try Bing through unblockable pop-ups

If you click “Yes,” the pop-up will install the “Bing Search” Chrome extension while making Microsoft’s search engine the default.…

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Interesting use of A.I. in a radiology journal

Medical doctors and scholars Raneem Bader,  Ashraf Imam, Mohammad Alnees, Neta Adler, Joanthan ilia, Diaa Zugayar, Arbell Dan, and Abed…

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NASA Communicates with Ailing Voyager 1 Spacecraft

I remember staying up well past my bedtime in the late 70s and early 80s, watching the local PBS station…

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Looks like somebody’s webmaster accidentally preloaded a headline that would be easy to edit either way, and that placeholder headline got (at least briefly) published.

Looks like somebody’s webmaster accidentally preloaded a headline that would be easy to edit either way, and that placeholder headline…

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My colleague @crissycp offers warm soda bread and tea every year, as part of her authentic and much appreciated efforts to create and celebrate our togetherness in this world. (And she’s right… nobody needs to be drinking green beer this weekend.)