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Mason
Ben Mansky's "Mason" won second place in the Storytelling Contest photography category. Years ago, I was walking around North Beach...
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Failure to Communicate, Part 2: Primary school
The scientific community and the general public aren’t known for agreeing on all the issues, to put it gently. For...
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Failure to Communicate Part 1: Words Can Never Hurt Me
The chair squeaked quietly as I fidgeted, swiveling left, right, left. I sat toward the back of a long wooden...