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How Polar Explorers Survived Social Distance

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Polar explorers, at least those who had sailed from Europe or America, spent their winters immobilized in the total darkness of Arctic and Antarctic...
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Another Failed Seaside Erection

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"I promise not to do this to Greenland!" Donald Trump joked in a tweet featuring a photoshopped image of a "TRUMP"-embossed gilded tower looming...
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My Polar Quibbles

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HBO just released a movie about Joe Paterno's role in the child rape outrages at Penn State (where I teach), and the local community...
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I Guess That I Will Weep No More

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Recently I saw a brilliantly chilling local production of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins. This musical, which grants the stage to the men and women who...
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Not Kosher

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A three-week-old tweet about Taylor Swift's supposedly giant vagina by Jennifer Mayers, a Baton Rouge woman describing herself as Christian Trump supporter, received fresh...
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“Moby-Bergin”

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"So Real You Wouldn't Even Know": Michael Bergin's Oceanic Knowledge Call him Michael Bergin. In a video that went viral earlier this week after he...
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A Family Adventures “Into the Woods”

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Avidly is very avid about beloved cultural objects — movies and musicals among them.  In anticipation of the new movie version of Into the Woods,...
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My Chilly Ponies

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The news out of Antarctica this week is terrible. You might assume that I refer to this week's report of the looming, irreversible collapse of...
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Lonely Connect

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The polar explorer Felicity Aston is the first woman to traverse Antarctica solo and the first human to do so under her own muscle alone. I...
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“Terry was a dude”: A dialogue on “Backstreets” and “Governor Chris Christie’s Fort Lee New Jersey Traffic Jam”

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Recently Rolling Stone published a list of the 100 greatest Bruce Springsteen songs of all time as decided by a panel of Rolling Stone...
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