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Music for our “Personal-Space” Age

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Locke slips out of his own clothes and into Robertson’s life.

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Both a key to the plot and a kind of subliminal tell.

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Culinary and scientific pursuits have a long relationship.

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It’s a sort of talisman or conch shell from which Ish derives his authority.

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“Only six of these cameras were ever made. Only five of them ever worked. We have four of those.”

By: Marc Weidenbaum

An ongoing webcomic series

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They’re bargained for and killed for and they’re worth sacrificing marriages for.

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A classic piece of working-class chic.

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The marlin seems less like a trophy and more like a familiar.

By: Ethan Marcotte

Machine learning is people!

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He doesn’t so much play the accordion as let it play him.

By: Miranda Mellis

It is liminal, this limo. It is in limbo. Ambivalent, stuck in a rut.

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The Last Concert I Saw Live in Person

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I didn’t understand my watch wasn’t so cool until I saw it on Hall’s wrist.