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Girls: Hannah’s Dead Inside – S3 E4
Jon Catlin will review each episode of Girls season 3, as they are released, on The Airspace. You can read his full introduction to the season here. You’ve probably noticed my Hannah bias in each of...
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A’s For Athletes: How UNC-Chapel Hill is Fumbling for Academic Standards
“Athletes couldn’t write a paper; they couldn’t write a paragraph; they couldn’t write a sentence,” says Mary Willingham, a former academic counselor for athletes at the University of North Carolina...
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No. Switching Typefaces Will Not Instantly Save The Government $400 Million
“Change your typeface, save millions,” cry the masses after reading a recent CNN article. It’s the perfect sensational story. A middle-schooler has found a way to save the government money just by...
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Why Aren’t Presidential Libraries Better?
On a recent weeklong trip to Texas to visit family friends, I visited the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum in Austin, Texas. It’s a strikingly ugly and dull building on first...
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Bikesharing is caring: How personal transportation is changing
When I moved to Chicago this past September, one of the first things I did was buy a yearlong pass to its recently-installed Divvy Bike program. I’d deemed it too expensive to move my bike out from my...
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Caught in Conflict: An American in Israel
From my kitchen window: Puffs of smoke from an intercepted Gaza rocket hover over north Tel Aviv on July 11, 2014. The past four days Tel Aviv has been targeted with rockets fired from the Gaza Strip....
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When Gas Changed Everything: A History of The Flatulence Industry
I’m sitting uncomfortably in my chair waiting for her to arrive. Tucked away in the Fulton River District of Chicago the restaurant is overpriced, bland, and a bit stuffy. I’m nervous—sweating....
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Bigger than LeBron: How SportVU Will Change Basketball
Image via Sport Techie You’ve probably been sleeping on one of the biggest prospect in basketball history. But instead of a 17-year old out of Akron, the next big thing is a set of cameras and...
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Mourning Sitcoms: When Networks Kill What They’re Trying to Save
The Fox military sitcom Enlisted should’ve been a success. It had a talented ensemble cast, was headed by Kevin Biegel, one of the people behind the excellent sitcoms Scrubs and Cougar Town, and, most...
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Changing Swine, One Pig At A Time
Supplying food for the entire world is not easy, and when people have an ethical choice to make, it only makes the situation more complex. Factory farms have been under extensive, but deserved...
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