Facebook, really? More people liked the picture in my post than saw the post that includes the picture?

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Should the AP Really Have Fired This Pulitzer-Prize War Photographer?

The original shot caught a Syrian rebel fighter moving from his position, his AK-47 in hand. It also showed something else: “a colleague’s video camera” in “the lower left corner of the frame,” according to the AP’s investigation. Before filing the image to his editors, Contreras used digital software to take the camera out of…

RT @PhilKomarny: A floppy disc… In #context htt…

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The Six Things That Make Stories Go Viral Will Amaze, and Maybe Infuriate, You

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Not Bad for an English Major

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Where Professors Send Their Children to College

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‘Jane Austen, Game Theorist’ by Michael Suk-Young Chwe Is a Joke

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Dear 11yo Daughter

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The Whole Internet Hates Me

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Seton Hill’s #CIO @PhilKomarny is moving on to @robotsNpencils

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