haha I like the site thing though, because I hear it as a reminder that the once-vaunted Social Web &c. are really just big websites in the end

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all else aside (and what an aside) I've always disliked the usage of "a blog" to mean "a blog post."

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I just wrote a whole book about the importance of storytelling and poetry to doing science! What this student says is exactly what I’m talking about: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

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My students, I think, are extremely tired of me inserting the 1893 Columbia Exposition (which you know as the Chicago World’s Fair) into every analysis of U.S. politics and culture. Do them a favor and if you see me in the streets ask me about it so I can spare them more often.

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I thought they thought the world was flat then??

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