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Look how the box leads your eye down to the car, then the two signs lead your eye up to the ba-boom setup, then your eye drops to the CRASH. Beautiful.

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Looking forward to what looks like an exciting evening of dance.

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Explorers (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 22) Sisko builds an ancient Bajoran spacecraft; Julian meets a med school rival

Rewatching ST:DS9 With a come-hither glance and an obviously fake cough, the dabo girl Leeta introduces herself to Dr. Bashir. …

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My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon

Marine Buffard writes a stunningly powerful guest essay in the NYTimes: Today, I will explain to my healthy transplanted heart…

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Exodus From an Elsevier Neuroscience Journal

One of the world’s largest scientific publishers refused to reduce its $3,450 fee to publish in NeuroImage.  [...] On Monday, every…

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Great energy at our Comp & Culture poster paper session. So proud of these students and their instructors.

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Seeing the premiere of a play based on the life of a Holocaust survivor who ended up as a businessman in Pittsburgh. @prime_stage

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Inmates in a Brazil prison shorten their sentences by writing book reviews

An amazing story of hope and dignity. That book club helped the inmates develop their analytical and communication skills. And…

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Netflix’s ‘The Piano Lesson’ adaptation breaks cycle by not filming in Pittsburgh

Very glad to see another of August Wilson's plays is getting filmed. Sad to read that it won't be filed…

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The Die Is Cast (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 21) Garak’s mentor leads a presumptive strike against the Founders homeworld

Rewatching ST:DS9 After the recap of S3E20 "Improbable Cause," we see Bashir, clearly missing Garak, holding forth on the decline…