After a successful piano recital.

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I’ve been fascinated by the rhetoric of headlines surrounding the “Sesame Street moves to HBO” story. * HBO gentrifies ‘Sesame Street’ –VentureBeat * Sesame Street Episodes Will Shrink to Half an Hour –Time * Sesame Street Is Heading to HBO, and Getting Even Bigger –Esquire * This episode of Sesame Street brought to you by…

TARDIS from today’s 3D printing class.

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A serious summer activity.

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Updating Journalism Handouts

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A salute lost to history

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Oh No, Performers Coming Into Audience

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How America fell in love with crazy amounts of air conditioning

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