My Minecraft-obsessed tween made this blocky foam pig at art camp.

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Testing “If This Then That”

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Star Trek: Predicting the Future Since 1966

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Editing, Writing and Dessert Victories

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I recently bought a new phone. since then, I have…

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Parallel Structure vs. Faulty Parallelism

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Parallel structure in writing: Use it!

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In Space as on Earth

A thoughtful reflection on religion in Star Trek. While Humans aren’t depicted as participating in any form of organized religion (there is a reference to a Christmas party here, a nod to monotheism there), the series also includes a distrust of science and technology, regularly depicting mad scientists, societies over-dependent on technology, etc.) that insists…

Ben Franklin Sings about Your Rights as a Photographer

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Jury Duty Update

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No space for over-30s as relaunched MySpace erases its past

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Judge: Apple conspired to fix eBook prices.

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RT @spj_tweets: How TV could suffer the fate of newspapers

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