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Essays
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1976
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How to Move the Earth
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1976
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SF in the Classroom: Science Fiction and the Science Teacher
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1977
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The Science in Science Fiction
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1979
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Changing the Guard
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1979
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Liberal Education
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1979
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Ten Years After: Where Do We Go from Here?
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1979
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Equal Rights for Dumb Blondes
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1979
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Irreproducible Phenomena
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1979
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Safety First
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1979
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Team Sport
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1980
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Looking Forward and Backward
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1980
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Quality Control
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1980
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Space for What?
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1980
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Energy and Freedom
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1980
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Reasons
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1980
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Energy Proposal
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1980
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Housewarming
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1980
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Advice for Crackpots
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1980
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
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1981
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Culturalanesthetics
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1981
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Non-Logical Processes in Science and Elsewhere
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1981
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One Step at a Time
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1981
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Portrait of You
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1981
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Credentials
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1981
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To Let the Punishment Fit the Crime
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1981
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A Case for Conformity
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1981
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Who Pays the Piper?
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1981
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Critical Event
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1981
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The One-Way Pendulum
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1982
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The Moral Majority
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1982
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Specifications for Superman
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1982
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Reflections on the Road
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1982
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The TISATAAFL Trap
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1982
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Renaissance
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1982
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The Name of the Game
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1982
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Moral Engineering
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1982
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The Relativity of Emergency
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1982
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Ideas Before Their Time
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1982
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Inventions Wanted
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1983
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Those Nasty Ol' Censors
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1983
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A Journal of (Dubious) Distinction
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1983
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A Little Knowledge
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1983
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Drug Abuse
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1983
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Word Games
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1983
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Thought by Proxy
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1983
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What the Deer & the Predators Play
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1983
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The Technological Trap
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1983
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Placing the Blame
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1983
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An Open Letter to Hollywood
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1983
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The Right to What?
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1984
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A Carrot for the Teacher
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1984
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When Is a Science?
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1984
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Noise
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1984
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Individuals and Statistics
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1984
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Loyal Opposition
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1984
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Infallibility Required
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1984
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Educational Mythology
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1984
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Heirs Unapparent
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1984
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'Tis the Season
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1984
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The Too-Inclusive 'We'
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1984
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Freedom from Fear
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1984
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent
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1985
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If You Can't Lick 'Em ...
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1985
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Acid Raindrops
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1985
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The World's Biggest Think Tank
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1985
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Speak for Yourself ...
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1985
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Garbage In, Gospel Out
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1985
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The Need to Believe
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1985
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Core Curriculum
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1985
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In Case of Doubt
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1985
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Pendulums
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1985
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More Than One Way ...
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1985
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The Old Refrains
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1985
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In/Deduction
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1985
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'Do It Our Way!'
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1985
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Other Dimensions: Viewpoint: Broccoli, Oranges, and Science Fiction
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1986
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The Other Kind of Tyranny
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1986
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Finite Cornucopias
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1986
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Missing Links
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1986
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The Panic Mentality
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1986
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Who's Responsible?
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1986
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Unholy War
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1986
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Ah, Sweet Misremembered Youth!
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1986
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After the Shock
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1986
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Trick Question
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1986
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Cold Feet
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1986
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The Ultimate Recyclable
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1986
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Frank Herbert Appreciation
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1987
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Fundamental Dilemma
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1987
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The Gypsy and the Procrastinator
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1987
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Brain Language
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1987
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Butterfly Futures
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1987
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Child Abuse
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1987
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The Reactionary Revolution
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1987
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The Memetic Menace
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1987
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Final Frontiers
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1987
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Great Oaks from Little Atoms
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1987
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Political Standard Time
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1987
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Matters of Opinion
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1988
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Matters of Principle
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1988
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... And Justice for All
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1988
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There's No Place Like Home
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1988
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An Experiment on People
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1988
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Population Ethics
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1988
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A Requiem for Summer?
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1988
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With One Exception ...
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1988
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Pure Art and Electronics
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1988
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Training Muzzles
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1988
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Missing Chain
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1988
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Progress!
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1988
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Serials
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1989
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Training Mission
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1989
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Internal Affairs
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1989
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Open Letter to a Teacher
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1989
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Optimists, Pessimists, and Surprises
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1989
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Utopia Test
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1989
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Tools of the Trade
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1989
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Job Qualification
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1989
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The Blind Men, the Planet, and the Wolf
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1989
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The Limits of Tolerance
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1989
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Town Meeting
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1989
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Fear Pollution
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1989
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Response to 'The New Generation Gap'
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1990
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Another Decade!
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1990
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On Being Human
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1990
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Engineering Problem
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1990
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Matters of Attitude
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1990
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Extrapolatio Ad Absurdum
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1990
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The Oldtimer Effect
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1990
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The Right to Be Wrong
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1990
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Bag Limit
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1990
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Sensory Deprivation
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1990
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Authority vs. Consensus
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1990
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The Door on the Desktop
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1990
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Missing Ingredient
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1990
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Windows to the Future
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1990
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Author's vs. Editors
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1991
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Your Rights, Whether You Want Them or Not
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1991
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Say When!
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1991
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Primitive Machines
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1991
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Ex Machina
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1991
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Foolproof
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1991
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The Self-Clogging Escape Valve
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1991
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The Camera as Weapon
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1991
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Continuity
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1991
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How-To
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1991
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Experience Required
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1991
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Mass
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1991
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A Speedy Trial
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1991
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The Perils of Victory
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1991
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Good Writing Is Not Enough
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1991
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Seeing Your Way to Better Stories
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1991
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The Ideas That Wouldn't Die
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1992
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God by Default
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1992
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The Right to Hide Arms
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1992
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E Pluribus Zero
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1992
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Education for Change
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1992
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Accept No Substitutes
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1992
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Tilting with Straw Men
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1992
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Reader's Choice
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1992
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Two-Stage Process
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1992
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Ex Post Facto Ethics
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1992
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Home Rule
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1992
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Eumemics
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1992
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Beyond Them and Us
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1992
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Hypertext as a Writing Tool
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1993
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Evolution and Ethics
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1993
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The Manuscript That Never Was
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1993
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Inappropriate Technology
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1993
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A Second Chance
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1993
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Test-Driving the Future
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1993
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Crosstalk
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1993
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Really Foreign Languages
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1993
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Upstart Instruments
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1993
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Magic
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1993
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Nouveaux Clichés
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1993
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Mama Knows Best
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1993
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The Ironic Epidemic
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1993
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Education for All
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1994
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Job Opening
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1994
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Megachoice
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1994
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Too Obvious to See
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1994
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Service Calls
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1994
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Authenticity
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1994
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The Age of the Pussyfoot
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1994
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Interference
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1994
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Evil Spirits
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1994
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Please Accept Substitutes
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1994
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Statistics Abuse
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1994
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Default Options
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1994
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Wishful Egalitarianism
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1994
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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1994
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Anatomy of a Sale: 'From the Corner of the Eye' to Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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1995
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Cold Fusion Conundrum
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1995
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Excuses and Evolution
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1995
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The Political Jupiter Effect
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1995
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Technology and Taste
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1995
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What's Good for the Goose Is Good for the Giraffe
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1995
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Deathwatch for Freedom
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1995
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The Anonymous Society
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1995
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Dedication
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1995
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Achievement Test
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1995
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Bold and Timid Prophets
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1995
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Relevance
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1995
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Now You See It ...
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1996
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Mirrors for Reality
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1996
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By Bread Alone
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1996
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The Feeling of Reality
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1996
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Catch-Up Time
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1996
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Unlicensed Practise
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1996
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The Other Side of Borderless
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1996
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I/O
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1996
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The Forever Fallacy
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1996
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The Dark Side of Clarke's Law
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1996
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The New Evangelists
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1996
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An Asimov Appreciation
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1996
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Curried Goatburgers
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1996
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Joyce's Juice Concoction
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1996
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Tiffin Chutney
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1997
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Too Hard?
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1997
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The All or Nothing Fallacy
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1997
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Style and Substance, Horse and Cart
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1997
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Public Versus Private
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1997
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A Bad Time for Aliens
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1997
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New Attitudes for New Frontiers
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1997
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Orphan Experiment
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1997
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Nature Versus and Nurture
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1997
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Prophetic Déjà Vu
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1997
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The Big Bad Bag Bug
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1997
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E Pluribus How Many?
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1998
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Natural Succession
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1998
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The Return of Mr. Robot
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1998
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Defenders of the Faith
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1998
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Secret Weapons
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1998
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Snakes or Paychecks: Is That the Question?
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1998
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Interesting Research
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1998
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King of the Hill (No Matter What)
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1998
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Invisible Enemies, Intelligent Choices
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1998
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The Fermi Plague
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1998
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Whose Language Is It, Anyway?
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1998
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Quality Control II: Reminder and Speculation
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1999
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Haste Makes Haste
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1999
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Time-Unbinding
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1999
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Much Ado About Very Little
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1999
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Rights vs. Rightness
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1999
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One Crystal Ball, Slightly Used
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1999
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The Bug and the Buffalo
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1999
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Political Correction
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1999
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The Frugal Physicist
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1999
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Initial Conditions
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1999
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Technological Temptation
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1999
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Hardly Ever Say Never
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2000
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A Double Celebration
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2000
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Applied Memetics
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2000
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The Red Queen's Race
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2000
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The Efficiency Trap
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2000
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'Do Something!'
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2000
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Asteroids and Lotteries
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2000
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Blunt Instruments
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2000
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Leap of Faith
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2000
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Stress Management
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2000
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Big Brother and Pinocchio
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2000
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Child's Play
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2000
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Joseph H. Delaney: An Appreciation
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2001
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Political Entropy Revisited
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2001
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Child's Play II
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2001
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Redefining Copyright
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2001
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Beliefs and Believers
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2001
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A Perfect Fit
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2001
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About Science Fiction
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2001
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Pivotal Events
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2001
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Temporal Provincialism
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2001
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Immortality for Whom?
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2001
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Barren Lands, Barren Minds
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2001
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The High-Tech Gold Rush
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2001
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A Double Loss for Science Fiction
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2002
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Magic Bullets
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2002
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Monsters
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2002
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Musings from the Bioethical Frontier
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2002
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The Throwaway Mentality
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2002
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A Deadly Fog
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2002
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Perspective
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2002
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Ecorestoration
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2002
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Flawed Experiment
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2002
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Hot Buttons, Hot Cars, and Evolution
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2002
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To Describe or Prescribe
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2002
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Design Flaw
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2003
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Driving Forces
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2003
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Useful Illusions & Deadly Faith
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2003
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The Return of the Mad Scientist
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2003
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Still Guessing, After All These Years
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2003
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The Ground Floor
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2003
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A Time to Be Wrong
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2003
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A Fragile Cornerstone
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2003
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Fitting Memorials
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2003
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Scarce Skills and Scattered Substitutes
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2003
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Missing the Point
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2003
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Child, Village, and Bug
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2004
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Spreading the Word
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2004
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Achilles' Grid
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2004
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A Billion Big Brothers
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2004
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Do All Roads Lead?
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2004
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Who Needs Company?
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2004
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The Price of Freedom
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2004
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Is There a Doctor on the Planet?
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2004
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The Vanishing Repairman
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2004
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Attack of the Giant Oxymorons
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2004
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Top Predator
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2005
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A Diamond Milestone
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2005
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A Noisy Signal
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2005
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Whence Comes Morality?
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2005
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Alibis, Safety, and Freedom
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2005
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Zero-Pollution Solutions
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2005
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Inevitable Clichés
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2005
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Softening Us Up
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2005
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Cowardice in the Classroom
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2005
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Diffuse Tyranny
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2005
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No Politics, Please
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2005
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Editing Your Own Stories
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2005
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Another Side of Hal
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2006
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The Anthropocentric Principle
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2006
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The Real and the Readable
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2006
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Poison and Hospitality
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2006
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Home, Vulnerable Home
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2006
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Can't Argue with That
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2006
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Wheat and Chaff
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2006
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Science, Journalism, and Responsibility
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2006
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Needle with a Nametag
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2006
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The Tyranny of Physical Law
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2006
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Extracurricular Education
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2007
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The Cheesesteak Nazi, the Colonel, and the Food Police
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2007
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New Writers
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2007
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Citizen Science
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2007
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Metascience and Mail Fraud
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2007
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Foggy Borderlands
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2007
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The Capacity of Dreams
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2007
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Adapting
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2007
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Gestures
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2007
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Double Standard Required
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2007
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... Help the Medicine Go Down
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2008
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Attention
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2008
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Which Stitch in Time?
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2008
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Mirrors and Might-Have-Beens
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2008
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Ups and Downs
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2008
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Our Most Important Product
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2008
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Choosing Tools
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2008
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'It's All About Me,' Writ Large
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2008
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RSVP
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2008
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The Great Rush Forward
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2008
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Relativity
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2009
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Loose Ends, Missed Points, and Tangents
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2009
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Can't Get There from Here?
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2009
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Research I
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2009
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Noisy Signals
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2009
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Signs of Respect
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2009
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Wild Goose Chase
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2009
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Where Credit Is Due
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2009
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Only Following Orders
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2009
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Aiming High - Or Low?
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2009
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Control
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2010
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The Future of Futures
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2010
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The Twisted Art of Argument
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2010
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The Rest of the Data
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2010
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Growing Pains
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2010
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Primer
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2010
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Analog, Digital, and Us
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2010
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The Halo Handicap
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2010
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Sentience and Simplicity
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2010
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Rules and Reasons
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2010
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Euthanizing the Euphemism
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2011
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Alternatives Past and Future
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2011
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Adjectives That Aren't
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2011
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A Seasonal Dilemma
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2011
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Too Easy?
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2011
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Over the River and Through the Woods
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2011
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Division of Labor
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2011
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False Alarms and Invisible Triumphs
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2011
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The New Way In
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2011
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Simple Solutions
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2011
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How Far the Frontier
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2012
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Outliers, Evil Spirits, and Perspective
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2012
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What's Technology For?
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2012
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Policy
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2012
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Scientific Methods
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2012
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The City 'Solution'
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2012
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VIPs
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2012
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Is Learning Obsolete?
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2012
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Newfangling Words
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2012
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Academic License
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2012
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Enough Evidence
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2013
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A Very Loud Ho-Hum
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2013
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Time for a Change
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2014
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Meditation on a Bar Stool
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2015
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Orbits to Order
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2015
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The Science of Night and Sunrise
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2015
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Hiding the Info-Dump or: Feeding Information Without Choking the Reader
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2015
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A Future for Analog
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2016
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Haunting Echoes
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2016
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The End or Leaving the Reader Satisfied
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2017
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The Final Nail
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2017
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Invaders
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2018
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Educational Challenge
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2019
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Speed Demons
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2019
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John and Me: An Alternate View of the Late John Campbell
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2020
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A Major Milestone and Places We've Been
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2021
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The 'New Normal' Trap
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2021
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Ben and Me
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2022
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Are You Kidding? Humor in Astounding and Analog
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2022
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Introduction to a Doctor Alien Trilogy
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2022
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Yesterday's Problems
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