SOme Thoughts About Trigger Warnings — Rough Draft
SOme thoughts about Trigger Warnings — Rough Draft
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The women-oriented gossip and news blog Jezebel declared 2013 the year of the trigger warning, and I rolled my eyes at the PC-ness of it all, since I had most commonly seen it on sites like Feministing, etc, where trauma and femininity are too closely discussed together for my taste. Where every int …
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This Beer-Sampling Robot Tongue Can Tell a Coors from a Guinness
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The inevitable evolution of beer-drinking robots. Image: Screenshot, Futurama. Watch out, Gordon Ramsay. Gustation might seem like one of those things that’s so thoroughly human that it’d be difficult to replace with machines, but robots might be coming for our taste buds sometime soon. Researchers …
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4 years, part 2: a commendable match for my stubbornness
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From that Tuesday morning meeting I also connected with my first sponsor, Marilyn. I didn’t really know what sponsorship meant, but after I had been coming to the meeting a few weeks a lady asked me if I had a sponsor. In my mind I thought, “I have no clue what that is or why I would have one. Who a …
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A Beginning
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Dane leaned his forehead carefully against the window of the passenger back seat, the dry summer plains passing before his tired eyes in a yellow-brown blur. His face throbbed with pain, and his mind ached with regret. Why hadn’t he just kept his mouth shut and walked out of that bar? Great Falls hi …
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