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Synapsida: Gotta Catch ’em All!
Bulbasaur! Jon Tennant excavates some Permian knowledge for you lovers of paleontology.
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Free Thing of the Week: Photographs by William Gottlieb
The Free Thing returns! This episode: jazz photographer William Gottlieb, and his treasure trove of swing and bebop period photos.
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“The Same Folly, the Same Fury”: A.V. Hill in 1933
Of nationalism and freedom, without which there can be no science. Hilda Bastian appreciates the life and work of Archibald V. Hill, and finds in it a warning for science today.
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Indefensible: World Wide Web Consortium Wants the Web to be Even Less Secure
You’ve found a security hole in your web browser? Prepare to be sued. Cory Doctorow writes about W3C’s latest bungle over DRM and security.
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The Trouble With Trade: People Understand It
Dean Baker takes on the mythology of trade deniers who assure us that nothing is wrong.
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Written in the Stars: Special Valentine’s Love Zodiac
Aries: They say if you’re unlucky at cards, you must be lucky at love. The truth, Aries, is that you suck at both. Not to say this can’t be fixed, as long as you, A) refrain from telling your first dates that you, “…think condoms…
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The Ghastly Impermanence: In Memoriam Pat French
Omar Willey delivers a short tribute to his former teacher and pillar of the radio theater community, Pat French, who died last week.
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Why Read Minding the Muse, A Handbook For Painters, Composers, Writers, and Other Creators by Priscilla Long, If You Have Read The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and Such?
Pam Carter takes a look at another book about artistic creativity, this one from Priscilla Long.

