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Rewatching ST:TNG The Enterprise follows a weak distress signal to a planet where a Federation ship crashed 200 years ago.…

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Rewatching ST:TNG The Enterprise-D crew finds itself the victim of an amnesia scenario devised by desperate, shadowy figures known as…

Why I Left Academe to Become a Science Communicator: The pursuit of academic research was too narrow for me.

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From explaining the effectiveness of social distancing for preventing the spread of COVID-19 to communicating earthquake preparedness plans to the…

Hear That? It’s Your Voice Being Taken for Profit.

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Why do tech companies give us these cool free digital voice assistants? (Hint: If you're not paying for it, you're…

Media Bias Chart 8.0 (Left vs. Right; Fact vs. Propaganda; Complex vs. Clickbait; Idle Chatter vs. Original Reporting) Version 8.0

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From AdFontes Media. If you never disagree with the slant of your news source, then you probably aren't reading a…

Bound Together by an Historic Moment

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I was a young faculty member teaching a two-hour freshman comp lab in Wisconsin the morning of September 11, 2001.…

In-person classes heighten age-related hearing problems (opinion)

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My family tells me I'm starting to speak louder than I need to around the house. On my campus, all…

The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship

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Last year, three cryptocurrency enthusiasts bought a cruise ship. They named it the Satoshi, and dreamed of starting a floating…