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The Satellite That Took This Incredible Photo Almost Didn’t Leave Earth

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The camera’s first good image came back a month ago, which was cutting things a little close for the July…

No girl wins: three ways women unlearn their love of video games – Offworld

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Several times I assigned Brenda Laurel's Utopian Entrepreneur, which described the rise and heartbreaking fall of her girl-centered, girl-positive gaming…

A salute lost to history

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History is complex and baffling and fascinating. Reading this (an explanation that the stiff-arm salute that we now identify with…

Personal Essays: 7 Tips for Expressing Ideas in Words

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Wondering how to write a personal essay? Is your personal essay due tomorrow morning? If so, here are some quick…

Sports writing: Once a passion, now merely a job

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Once, working for an online sports section, it was immediately stressed that the rule of thumb was to churn out…

Started Making a Journalism Game in Twine

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For a long time, I've thought about creating a game to teach the fundamentals of journalism. Last weekend during my…

Oh No, Performers Coming Into Audience

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PITTSBURGH—Audience members at the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts are reporting that, oh God, no, approximately 20 extremely enthusiastic…

Ursula K. Le Guin: A Personal Take on Go Set a Watchman

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  Before Watchman was published, I was skeptical and unhappy — all the publicity made it sound like nothing but…

How America fell in love with crazy amounts of air conditioning

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By the 1950s, as air conditioners became common in the home, family life in the summer moved back inside, and increasingly centered…

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My geekling daughter, who in Willy Wonka flashed Mr. Spock's Vulcan greeting during Veruca Salt's contract-signing scene, also worked a Star Trek reference into…