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  • Supermassive Snapshot

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    Supermassive Snapshot

    Our team was part of the global Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration…

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  • Ed Simon: Poetry Without Poets

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    Ed Simon: Poetry Without Poets

    Despite its aesthetic proficiencies or deficiencies, A.I.-Wordsworth’s poem is not necessarily without meaning, even if it’s a message without a messenger.

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  • Eric D. Lehman: Sharing Stories at Kinlochard

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    Eric D. Lehman: Sharing Stories at Kinlochard

    We took a wrong turn in Aberfoyle. Instead of heading toward Loch Katrine, the home of Sir Walter Scott’s Lady of the Lake, my wife Amy and I headed along a sketchy broken road to Loch Ard.

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Port-au-Prince’s Territories

Port-au-Prince’s Territories

In effect the state is missing in action, as the people suffer overlapping crises...

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Turmoil in 19th Century Spain

Turmoil in 19th Century Spain

The analysis begins judiciously with the war of 1793-95 and its aftermath...

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Hip-Hop Heads: Jeff Alessandrelli Interviews Daniel Levin Becker

Hip-Hop Heads: Jeff Alessandrelli Interviews Daniel Levin Becker

I value fun and the sense that a rapper is enjoying their own skill rather than just telling me about it...

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40 More Years, 40 More Years?

40 More Years, 40 More Years?

President Paul Biya is the second longest serving leader in Africa...

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O Expanse, O Sky by Douglas Penick

O Expanse, O Sky by Douglas Penick

There are as many Buddhas as there are atoms...

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Switzengland

Switzengland

Nowadays, the charm of a Little Switzerland is not a lofty, aesthetic ideal of Romanticism...

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Andre Gerard’s Alpine Gamble

Andre Gerard’s Alpine Gamble

Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence...

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Pine martens retreated to the rocky crags of Snowdonia and the Lake District…

Pine martens retreated to the rocky crags of Snowdonia and the Lake District…

There was a time after the last Ice Age when pine martens thrived all across the British Isles...

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Eyes or legs?

Eyes or legs?

Can the soul stroll?

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Leslie Stephen Mountaineering

Leslie Stephen Mountaineering

Nobody can deny that there are serious dangers in Alpine climbing...

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Susan Daitch Greening

Susan Daitch Greening

You could repeat escapes over the Berlin Wall. Was she really there?

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