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I’m having problems with phrases reduced to strings of letters
I recall the time when I was so proud I’d figured out what LOL meant, and OMG. That was when Twitter limited our individual expressions to 140 whatevers and it was necessary to use condensed language such as “b/c” for … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged acronyms, James Webb Space Telescope, Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, Twitter
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Want to shake off the god problem? Become a scientist
At the end of a thrilling and delightful August 16 New Yorker article, “The Youthful Universe: A new space telescope will allow us to see deeper into the past than ever before,” Rivka Galchen talked to Bob Williams, …the former … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life, The god problem
Tagged astronomy, baptism, James Webb Space Telescope, Rivka Galchen, Space Telescope Science Institute, the bible, The New Yorker
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One punchy line about “content production”
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about content production. Well, no, not actually about that particular term, but about the ways in which someone like me can get somewhat famous. And it has come to my peripheral attention that producing … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged Andrew Marantz, Chapo Trap House, content production, Know Your Enemy, podcasts, The New Yorker
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