Hit and Miss
I publish a small weekly newsletter titled Hit and Miss. In it, I write about whatever I’ve been reading each week, usually with some tilt toward the interaction of technology and society. Check out the archive below—if it interests you, please consider subscribing.
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#229: Playing for team public
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#228: Where have the snow days gone
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#227: Melancholy and drama, but peace
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#226: Digging roots
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#225: A few books feed us well
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#224: Staring down the barrel, at least the memes are good
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#223: Fragments
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#222: What we lose
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#221: Outrunning the food coma
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#220: Stories within stories
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#219: Silent commemoration
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#218: One week down
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#217: Surviving November
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#216: Registering intent
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#215: Leaves pass to soil
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#214: A brief rom-com review
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#213: Truer histories
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#212: Star Trek days
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#211: Paths (not) taken
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#210: Little reading
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#209: September, you’re finally here
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#208: Reading and movies
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#207: August free fall
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#206: Democratic event(s)
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#205: Let’s get nerdy
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#204: Cool sunsets
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#203: Parables
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#202: Boredom, boiling frogs, and miscellany
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#201: Summer dreaming
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#200: “You give me life”
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#199: Loading
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#198: Cooking, staying hungry
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#197: Responding to violence
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#196: Doors Open (online)
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#195: 215 children
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#194: What’s on the mind
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#193: Lilacs
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#192: The world is cool
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#191: Anniversaries
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#190: To what grounds us
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#189: Furious, heartbroken—but not surprised
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#188: Daydream believer
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#187: Sunshine escape
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#186: Rainy day people
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#185: Spring—change, or not
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#184: On we go
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#183: Reporting thoughtfully
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#182: Keeping it light
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#181: Close to home
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#180: Another day older, closer to the grave
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#179: Chase the sun
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#178: Coding by any other name
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#177: Gettin’ sauced
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#176: Working (again)
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#175: This week in anti-democracy…
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#174: Zoom zoom
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#173: Revisiting
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#172: Five books for the year
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#171: Ugh, algorithms
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#170: PolySeSouvient
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#169: Waiting
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#168: Adventuring
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#167: For the love of knowledge
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#166: Trivial links
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#165: Blowing hot air
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#164: Argh
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#163: On Mi’kmaw waters
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#162: A sense of perspective
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#161: Leafing through
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#160: Books at hand
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#159: COVID crime
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#158: Rainy morning adventures
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#157: Maintenance, care, attention
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#156: Week in review
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#155: TV time and world-building
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#154: Remembering (how) to relax
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#153: Roads
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#152: Rain day thoughts
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#151: Some links
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#150: Virtual community
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#149: Snapshots of the week
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#148: Halfway through 2020
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#147: One link to listen
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#146: Heat, work, history
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#145: Who’s watching?
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#144: What to say
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#143: A difficult week
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#142: To your taste
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#141: New shelves
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#140: In memoriam
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#139: Beautiful words
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#138: Wordy cookbooks
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#137: Day off reading
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#136: Parliament carries on
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#135: Personal websites
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#134: Do nothing struggles
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#133: Sims
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#132: Now so fast, history so slow
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#131: Finding focus
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#130: 2x3 links (misc, archives) and a phrase
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#129: Spring, feelings, readings
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#128: Family time
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#127: Collected links
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#126: Mining my messages
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#125: Facilitating access
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#124: Snow slow
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#123: Retreat to the wholesome
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#122: Archives and walking and links
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#121: Engage!
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#120: This year’s books
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#119: Top shelf (think books, not booze)
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#118: Thirty years later
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#117: Principles of parliamentary practice
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#116: Web links
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#115: P-p-p-policy!! (Or, what Lucas does at work)
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#114: A parliamentary (precinct) tour
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#113: Stories beyond the data
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#112: Public service
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#111: Functions of a living situation
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#110: The sites I visit
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#109: The slump
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#108: Models for decision and action
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#107: A drop-in space
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#106: Bookmark finds
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#105: Travelling in place
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#104: Through the eyes of another
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#103: Structure
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#102: A geography of intentional sound
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#101: Happy days
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#100: Living principles
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#99: Levels of critical digital work
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#98: Questions for learning
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#97: Digital government and civic tech
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#96: Opera
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#95: Let’s take a walk
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#94: Words and links
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#93: Accessible public spaces
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#92: A working carrying capacity
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#91: Doors Open
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#90: Walking toward a social summer
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#89: Three blobs of words
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#88: Grounding history
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#87: A day off
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#86: Look up
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#85: Valuing openness
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#84: Thinking frames
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#83: Boomer empowerment
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#82: Making time for music, for silence
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#81: A family day
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#80: Communicating depth
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#79: The signs
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#78: I, you, we (maybe?)
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#77: Words I avoid
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#76: The 80s and links
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#75: Standing in place
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#74: When you want to get out and read
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#73: The wholesome social network
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#72: Libraries, physical and digital, visible and invisible
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#71: Rockeuses, and leaders as facilitators
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#70: What we remember, and why
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#69: Returning home and time’s triptych
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#68: Reading (and writing) heals
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#67: Speeches from the throne, thinking tools
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#66: Scattered
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#65: Working and rest
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#64: No choice
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#63: Competing priorities at Laurel Creek Conservation Area
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#62: Blogroll
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#61: Thinky thinky
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#60: Thinking geographically
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#59: Three pairs of links
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#58: Digital history and digital humanities
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#57: Thanksgiving break
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#56: Dropping in
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#55: Communities of care
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#54: Repeated experiences
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#53: Writing in books, a personal history
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#52: A year in (review)
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#51: Learning and escaping through simulation
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#50: We shape the land
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#49: Learning languages, loving words
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#48: Cool recipes for a hot day
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#47: Turn to the local
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#46: Heat
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#45: Humbly human
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#44: Working (remotely)
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#43: Centennial
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#42: Creative constraints
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#41: Historically minded
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#40: A quantified, incentivized life
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#39: Here I go again!
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#38: Pacifism
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#37: Working (together)
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#36: Science fair!!
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#35: Working
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#34: Portable pasta party kit
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#33: Keep going
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#32: Season 2, episode 22
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#31: Regularly local
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#30: M*A*S*H
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#29: On the environment
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#28: Robots!
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#27: Editing
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#26: Presenting work
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#25: The importance of internet access
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#24: Ode to the road
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#23: Some links
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#22: Life is long
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#21: Complex, connected problems
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#20: Profiles and interviews
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#19: Thinking about time
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#18: “Feed”
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#17: Constant questions
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#16: Three welcome books
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#15: Small victories
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#14: Our faves are problematic
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#13: The Seven Year Itch
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#12: Bye Bye Birdie
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#11: What’s a personal bio good for?
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#10: Research reading
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#9: Modern monopolies
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#8: Civic tech
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#7: A revealing week
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#6: Veritable listening
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#5: Newsletter recommendations
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#4: Loving libraries
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#3: Conversational contributions
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#2: Questioning labels
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#1: Earthworming