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In Search of the Superfluous Woman: The Three Sisters
The tradition of the superfluous man in Russian literature is a source of much discussion. But what about the superfluous woman? Omar Willey writes.
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Longtime Council Icon Nick Licata Bows Out
Beloved City Council Icon Nick Licata bows out after sixteen years on the Council. R.V. Murphy reports.
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Seeking Balance: The Ballad of Ishtar
Thoughts on the contemporary electro-acoustic opera, The Ballad of Ishtar.
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Obama Wants You to Have Cheap, Fast Internet, But Many Cities Aren’t Allowed to Provide It
Obama hailed the benefits of an open Internet in his State of the Union address. Here’s what it is and how he’s trying to make it happen.
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Tom Rasmussen’s Folly
Seattle City Council member Tom Rasmussen has now officially declined to run for re-election this year. His ardent support for the deep-bore tunnel apparently had nothing to do with his decision. Jeff Stevens retorts.
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7 Tips for Women at Science Conferences
Equal respect for women and other non-dominant groups shouldn’t be a touchy subject: it should be a given. Science is international and it has developed many distinct cultural norms for itself. The presence of women is one of them. Hilda Bastian writes.
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Things I Did Not Write About in 2014, Part 2
More belated thoughts from Omar Willey about stuff from last year.
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Weekly E-book: Seeing Ourselves Through Technology
Jill Rettberg explores the meaning of Instagram filters, smartphone apps that write diaries for you, and the ways in which governments and commercial entities create their own representations of people from the digital traces they leave behind as they go through their lives.
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No Spin Zone
Telescopes are now discovering Earth-size planets throughout the galaxy, but an astronomer at Berkeley explains why that doesn’t mean they are habitable. Eric Petigura writes.
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