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Emily Helliwell
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August 26, 2016Doing Science: The Oxygen Crisis, or, Sometimes These Things Name Themselves
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July 14, 2016Doing Science: Our Brains, Our Guts, And What We Consider to Be Ourselves
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June 15, 2016Doing Science: The Do’s and Don’ts of Eating Lunch with Visiting Seminar Speakers
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May 11, 2016Doing Science: On the Importance of Talking to Creationists
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April 20, 2016Doing Science: Bow Down to Your Gooey Grey Nanolords
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March 28, 2016Doing Science: The Sad Tale of Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov and His Beautiful Theory
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February 9, 2016Doing Science: Cheating Death, and Skipping Winter While You’re At It
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January 22, 2016Doing Science: The Zombie Apocalypse is Upon Us, If We Are Ants
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December 17, 2015Doing Science: Do It Yourself Science
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November 25, 2015Doing Science: The Wonkiness of Pure Bloodlines, and Their Unexpected Upsides
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October 28, 2015Doing Science: The Earth is Collapsing In On Itself, But Make Sure You Get a Good Night’s Sleep
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August 12, 2019List: Critically Acclaimed Horror Film of the 2010s or Your Ph.D. Program?
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August 25, 2016I Would Rather Do Anything Else Than Write the Syllabus for Your Class
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August 9, 2019We Need a Wizard Who Can Appeal to the Moderate Orc Voter
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August 19, 2019Monologue: A Future Message From Generation X’s Reverse Mortgage Pitchman, Trent Reznor
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August 23, 2019We Need a Republican Nominee Whose Disdain for Marginalized People is Less Obvious
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August 23, 2019List: A Parents’ Guide to Surviving the College Drop-Off
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August 23, 2019Monologue: I Am Marianne Williamson and, to Clarify, the ‘Dark Psychic Force’ I Mentioned Is the Algerian Military and Its Refusal to Cede Power to the Hirak
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August 23, 2019List: Things Trump Can Do to Win Democrats’ Votes