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The Show Must Go On(line) Somewhere in middle of Act II of Hamilton, I think between “The Adams Administration” and “We Know,” I fell fast asleep. This was the original cast on Broadway, mind you, and I was sitting in some of the best seats in the house.

Dec 7

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Choose Your Own Adventure Exploring the branching narratives of CYOA books through data visualization and what they teach us about choice.

Nov 13

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Bricolage 002 This reminds me of why you should never poke a hardboiled egg after you put it in the microwave.

Nov 6

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Election Day 2020 Almost all jurisdictions rely on electronic voting machines at their polling stations. It is worth understanding why we use them, how they work, and to what degree we can trust them.

Nov 3

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Error 1202 Aboard the Lunar Module Eagle (LM-5), Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were 30,000 feet above the moon surface and rapidly descending.

Oct 23

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(Not So) Quiet, Please In a fan-less season, the home teams’ noise advantage diminishes, and players’ performance is altered. Sporting venues have resorted to many tactics to restore some crowd normalcy to the game, including pumping in fake crowd noise.

Oct 16

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Bricolage 001 Consider these interstitial episodes a bit of a release valve for us, or perhaps a palette cleanser to let us catch our breaths between the longer essays.

Oct 9

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Eye to Eye Dressed in a long-sleeved, untucked white shirt, he climbs onto a platform in front of the audience.

Oct 2

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Press 1 to Continue I had a meeting with a colleague a few days ago, and she requested that instead of a video chat over Zoom, we should pick up the phone

Sep 25

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Time is Weird in 2020 Time is weird in 2020, wouldn't you agree?

Sep 18

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Freediving into a Spreadsheet How spreadsheets became cultural spaces for art, activism, and social action beyond business calculations.

Sep 11

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Happy Upgrade Day You find it difficult to describe to your unlinked friends what it’s like to have an implant. It’s not like the movies, where you jack into a matrix and gain superpowers. You don’t suddenly have brain links to everyone else’s Wikipedia rabbit holes. It’s more subtle than that.

Sep 3

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Study With Us It was lovely sitting among strangers with their laptops open. Even as we were all lost in our socially distant headspaces, our minds and bodies were still chattering away with each other. Our study effort was contagious, entraining focus.

Aug 27

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Touching a Heartbeat I took the Apple Watch for a long walk last weekend. It did something unexpected and unattractive.

Aug 20

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Hello, World I do think we can have a symbiotic relationship with these creatures. They feed off of us, and in return, they perform magic on our behalf.

Aug 13