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Poli Sci Fi
The presidential campaigns are running themselves into the ground. Scott McLemee thinks space is the place....
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It's All About the Oil
A friend recently noted that this week’s column would probably run at just about the time the Chinese government was...
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Lucy in Disguise
Three years ago, an undercover agent in Maryland spied on activists. Scott McLemee finds her description in a sociologist's article from 1974.
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A Debt of Honor -- Skipped Out On
Newspapers keep abandoning any responsibility toward books. Scott McLemee looks back at print culture....
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It's All Geek to Me
We have, by contemporary standards, a mixed marriage, for I am a nerd, while my wife is a geek. A...
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Towards Helhaven
Was the new Pixar film "WALL-E" inspired by an American cultural theorist? Scott McLemee goes over the moon to find out.
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Digital Daze
University presses gathered in Montreal last week to discuss the future. Scott McLemee comes back with a report.
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Plenty to Go Around
A new field of research is emerging, devoted to the study of ignorance. Scott McLemee did not know that.