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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
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
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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“It was like a great trashy novel had come to life”
She had everything she could possibly want. And then the police announced that she and her lover-boy nephew were cold-blooded killers...
Read MoreThe 7th Mode
Racers such as the bounty hunter Captain Falcon hovered smoothly across intergalactic circuits suspended in the sky...
Read MoreDecorating Fragrant Evergreens
Celebrants added nuts, strings of popcorn or beads, oranges, lemons, candies and home-made trinkets. However, widely-read newspapers and ladies' magazines raised the standards for ornamentation...
Read MoreSusanna Crossman: Riding the Baking Edge #7
It is December. People bake, putting goods into ovens. Quiet sweetness is placed on tables...
Read MoreChristmas Number
There is no more dangerous or disgusting habit than that of celebrating Christmas before it comes...
Read MoreDouglas Penick: Christmas Claus Causality
Presents embody a moment in which the obligation to work for every material joy is suspended...
Read Morebell hooks in Denmark
We have so many new groups like the Spice Girls, who are asserting a kind of feminist adventurism with their music...
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Extraordinary Winter
Beginning in December 1917, a powerful series of unrelenting and formidable ice storms and blizzards wreaked havoc across the United States...
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Louverture at the Brit
Based on extensive research, including a visit to Fort de Joux, Martineau’s historical romance repeatedly stated the idea of black agency and capability...
Read MoreAndre Gerard’s Sleuthing Delights
The biggest delight of my Conan Doyle sleuthing may well be a false clue, even if the facts are not in doubt...
Read MoreAwash With Forgeries
The art work in fiction is less likely to be the basis for some epiphany than to be a MacGuffin...
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‘Few vaudevillistes can escape the contagion’
Your literature amounts to nothing now Having picked up all of romanticism’s errors, Its writings all reveal the face of Nature, Poor and decrepit, surrounded by great horrors...
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The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
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The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
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I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
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The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
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I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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