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A Love Letter to Obscure Christmas Songs; or How Holiday Deep Cuts Are Cheering Me Up This Year

Why obscure holiday songs bring me joy when times are tough.

Dec 5, 2024

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Dec 5, 2024

Journalism, Science News, and the Bold Stance of Leaning Into the Science

Science is not conducted in a vacuum. Let’s talk about a figure in science news who let their reporters acknowledge that.

Nov 15, 2024

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Nov 15, 2024

Can AI Do That? The Challenges, Limitations, and Opportunities of Generative AI

There is a lot of discussion in the public sphere about how tools that use artificial intelligence (AI) to generate images and text will…

Feb 29, 2024

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Feb 29, 2024

Why AI Writing Tools Are Useless for Science News

The existing crop of AI writing tools are not equipped to write about news in general, and research news in particular.

Mar 31, 2023

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Mar 31, 2023

7 Christmas Songs You Probably Don’t Know The Words To (Yet)

Ready for an overly specific Christmas music countdown? Great!

Dec 19, 2022

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Dec 19, 2022

Favorite Albums of 2022

From Sampa the Great to The Pixies, these are the tunes that stood out in 2022.

Dec 6, 2022

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Dec 6, 2022

Interested in Jazz, But Don’t Know Where to Start? This is For You

Many folks are intimidated by jazz. They shouldn’t be!

Jan 27, 2022

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Jan 27, 2022

How Academia Undervalues Expertise

Higher education is devoted to helping people develop expertise. It often also economically undermines the value of sharing expertise.

Jan 5, 2022

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Jan 5, 2022

A Very Expensive Christmas Card; or, How Much Does an M60 Cost, Anyway?

Just how expensive are the guns that politicians pose with in publicity photos? It might be more than you earn in a year.

Dec 9, 2021

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Dec 9, 2021

The Thing Most Folks Don’t Get About Taxes

One reason many folks freak out about tax rates is because they don’t understand how the tax system works. Which is understandable, because…

Oct 29, 2021

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Oct 29, 2021

Matt Shipman

Matt Shipman

Writer. Editor. Media relations guy. I like music and food. I dislike bullies. Let's make the South better, y'all.

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