Very interesting adaptation of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. #pptlaytime @thepublicpgh

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In a literature class, the author’s words matter more than the author’s life and times, or our own feelings and values.

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I just found an abandoned blog draft, dated 2011, on economics in early computer games. Published!

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New York Times runs just 1000 names of the nearly 100,000 Americans who have already died from COVID-19

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