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Red pencil blasts off like a rocket, the year 2022 written in the sky across it, the number 2 in 2022 written on the pencil

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In Our Feeds

25 Things That Made Us Smarter in 2022

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NuSTAR data, seen in green and blue, reveal solar high-energy emission (green shows energies between 2 and 3 kiloelectron volts, and blue shows energies between 3 and 5 kiloelectron volts

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In Our Feeds

Fusion Pops, ChatGPT Emerges, and Contronyms Reflect

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Picture of Interior of King Tutankhamun's Tomb and Wall Paintings in Tomb of Tutankhamun

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In Our Feeds

World Cup Madness, Analyzing Slumberland Anxieties, and Translating Tut

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Keyboard embedded in smoking computer monitor

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In Our Feeds

Tweeting Through It, Ode to Airports, and Seasonal Ailment Debilitation

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Family snapshot of a two men holding young children, with a grandmother standing between them and a little girl at the front of the group

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Opinion

An Education in Ancestry

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Close up of a gloomy octopus hiding in an underwater hole

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In Our Feeds

Midlife Reboot, Octopus Throwdown, and Calling It an Election Night

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Human hand shaking a robot hand

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In Our Feeds

Applying Oneself, Robo-Feels, and 900 Numbers

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A horizontal studio shot showing an assortment of Virginia Lottery scratch-off cards that have all been scratched to reveal that each card is a losing ticket.

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In Our Feeds

Captain Kirk Reflects, America Gambles, and Business School Rock

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Photograph of a sea of political signs in a grassy area

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In Our Feeds

Midterm Prognostication, Missing Pawpaws, and Termite Hordes

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Close up of a pin that reads Book It on a denim jacket worn by a young woman

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In Our Feeds

Book It, Reader; Asteroid Blasters; and Disk Drive

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Photo of a bunch of pickleballs in blue, yellow, green, pink, and orange

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In Our Feeds

Pickleball, Fun Facts, and William Klein

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Technology wireframe tunnel on blue background

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In Our Feeds

Mo Willems Magic, Matter Over Media, and Monorails Monorails Monorails!

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Five boys climb on a wooden structure outdoors at a summer camp

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In Our Feeds

Immortal Invertebrates, Camp Life, and Instagramagic

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Astronaut walking on the moon, holds onto a massive boulder, while his rover waits on the other side of the rock

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In Our Feeds

Artemis Dreams, Everybody Streams, and Pirate History Fiends

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A detail shot of major league baseballs prior to a game

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In Our Feeds

Harvey Memories, Exhausting Coworkers, and Sloppy Baseballs

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Astronaut performing a spacewalk above a cloud-covered earth

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In Our Feeds

Overview Effects, Meal Shares, and STEM CHIPS

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A closeup of a bowl of Skittles

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In Our Feeds

Skittles, Speeches, and Stickers, Oh My!

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Handsome well dressed businessman reading burning newspaper

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In Our Feeds

The Great Unsubscribing, Car Culture, and the Good Life

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Eight college students holding buttons that read "vote" at voter registration

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In Our Feeds

A Fourth of July Celebration of Voting and Civic Participation

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Old fashioned gas pumps at an abandoned station

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In Our Feeds

Yesterday’s Gas Stations, Don’t Mess With Data, and Gettin’ “Jiggle” With It

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Tabby cat enjoying catnip in sunny summers garden

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In Our Feeds

Buzzed Cats, Artificial Sentience, and Learning Languages

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People sitting on a bench holding different flags for the protest defending the LGBTQ rights

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In Our Feeds

Pride Flags, Chicken Feed, and Tiny Triathlons

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Man walking away from a decrepit boat sitting on cracked, dry ground that was formerly a lake

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In Our Feeds

Tracy Flick Returns, Drought Discoveries, and Omnipresent Student Journalists

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Yellow road sign showing a cow getting beamed up by a UFO beside the ET Highway on the road to the town of Racheal, Nevada.

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In Our Feeds

UFOs, Solar Sails, and Pioneering Coders

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Smartphone with the game Wordle on the screen

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In Our Feeds

Wordle Fracas, iPod Legacies, and Art of Science

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Chess pieces sit next to the board during a round of chess at Washington Square Park in New York City

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In Our Feeds

TikTok Study Buddy, Fashion Forward, and Gotham Gambit

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Komodo Dragon, the world's largest lizard, strolling a beach seeking food on Komodo Island in Indonesia.

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In Our Feeds

Charismatic Creatures, Cinematic Invention, and Celebrating Teachers

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teacher in red cape standing against big blackboard with mathematical symbols and formulas

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Fan Mail

Teacher Appreciation Day 2022: Superhero Shout Out Edition

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High school students and teacher clapping in classroom

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Fan Mail

Teacher Appreciation Day 2022: YA DID GREAT Edition

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Playful group close-up of Hispanic teenagers laughing and gesturing as they look at camera outside their high school.

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Fan Mail

Teacher Appreciation Day 2022: Never Gonna Give You Up Edition

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Colorful overlapping silhouettes of mobile phone users

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In Our Feeds

American Babel, Dissent Poetry, and Slow Drives

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Three model skeletons in a row, holding swords and shields

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In Our Feeds

Putin’s People, Skeleton Crews, and National Baseball

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Close-up of coffee pot with hot coffee

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In Our Feeds

Darn Fine Coffee, Interdimensional Extraterrestrials, and Library Connections

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Image of Saturn and it's rings in shadow and outlined against a black background

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In Our Feeds

Dodo Brains, Saturn’s Ring Cycle, and Busting Caesar

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Closeup photo of a pile of American nickels

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In Our Feeds

Nickelmania, Vocational Devotionals, and Reel Buffets

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Hand holding a phone with the TikTok logo on a black screen

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Extra Credit

Five TikTok Famous Teachers Everyone Should Follow

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Scene from the animated movie Encanto with Mirabel on the left and Bruno on the right

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In Our Feeds

We Do Talk About Bruno, Watching the Watches, and Dolly’s Virtues

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Rainbow over Stonehenge

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In Our Feeds

Tapping Stonehenge, Defining Animals, and Grading Grades

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Image of a sunset with an illustration of sound waves layered on top

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In Our Feeds

Sounds of Silence, Shakespeare in the Holler, and Regular Visitors

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Close up of American skeleton athlete laying flat on her board

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In Our Feeds

Olympic Adrenaline, Parental Exhaustion, and Fusion Reactions

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a man with safety gloves and face mask delivers pizza

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In Our Feeds

Delivery Dilemmas, Stronger Smartphones, and Literal Everyday Apocalypses

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Abstract sunrise

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In Our Feeds

Melting Icebergs, Deep Freezes, and Expanding Hope

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Full Frame Shot Of a wall of Audio Cassettes

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In Our Feeds

Mixtape Memories, Macaque Matriarchs, and Matrix Mimesis

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Office desk with computer, phone, and files on beach

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In Our Feeds

Grand Theft Auto, Orchestral Interludes, and Zooming Out

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pencil in the shape of a rocket blasting off with the number 1 in 2021 on the pencil

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In Our Feeds

25 Things That Made Us Smarter in 2021

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oregon trail screenshot

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In Our Feeds

Oregon Trailblazers, International Jetsetters, and Graceful Agers

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Performer dressed as Mickey Mouse stands on a parade float at Disney World

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In Our Feeds

Disney’s Worlds, Laugh’s Anti-Riots, and Marie Antoinette’s Versailles

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Cartoon of cakes on a conveyer belt

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In Our Feeds

Time Tunnels, Robo-cakes, and Potty Talk

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Prince raising his arms during a performance in the rain

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In Our Feeds

Spooky Songs, Data Death, and Maximal Microchips

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Shelf of vinyl records and a record player

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In Our Feeds

Analog Work, Deepcut Bond, and Leafblower Blowback

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Photo of state fair food stands advertising deep fried cheese products

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In Our Feeds

State Fairs, Slackageddon, and Student Journalists

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Satellite image of ever given ship stuck in the Suez Canal

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In Our Feeds

Wildfire Smokejumpers, Supply-Chain Omnishambles, and National Guard Drivers

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Abstract colorful nebula

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In Our Feeds

Big Data, Giant Planets, and Huge Shoes to Fill

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Pile of floppy disks in various colors

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In Our Feeds

Fame, Fortune, and Files

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Lab technician holding Coffee cell cultures (right) and roasted coffee (left) in glass containers

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In Our Feeds

Test-Tube Coffee, Green-Eyed Clickbait, and Acid-Trip Animators

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Matrix rain of Japanese Katakana green characters on a black background

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In Our Feeds

Pandemic Parenting, Green Steel, and Subtracting Sexism

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New York City skyline at night, with two beams of blue light emanating from the right of the frame

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In Our Feeds

Party Animals, Digital Libraries, and Memorializing 9/11

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Pattern of mouse cursors with the word click rendered in different colors

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In Our Feeds

Mindhacks, Crackdowns, and Clickstreams

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Desert scene from the film Dune

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In Our Feeds

Dune’s Deserts, The Chair’s Faculty, and the Ed Beat’s Journos

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Young Black woman smiling as the sun forms a bright corona behind her

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In Our Feeds

Decoding Macbeth, Celebrating Obituaries, and Opting In to Optimism

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Bag of rice in the form of a newborn in a blanket, on the right; a red wrapped blanked in the middle background, and a box of cooked rice on the left

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In Our Feeds

American Hermits, Conflict Resolution, and Long Grain Ingenuity

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Artist rendering of a pulsar

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In Our Feeds

Hidden Figures, Detecting Distraction, and Pandemic Preservation

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Hand of a chef taking photograph of tacos on table with a mobile phone. Hands of cook photographing Mexican food

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In Our Feeds

Taco Talk, Media Meltdowns, and Flagrant Flops

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Couple pulled off to side of rural road watching sunset over desert river gorge woman taking photo with smartphone from convertible off road vehicle

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In Our Feeds

Ted Lasso, America’s Promise, and Roads Traveled

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Seamless pattern of slices of watermelon filling the frame

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In Our Feeds

TikTok Tangles, Melon Mania, and Slow Speeds

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Full frame of high angle view of circuit board.

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In Our Feeds

Celebrating Perseverance, Reinventing Microchips, and Investigating Sneezes

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US ice hockey team celebrating defeating the USSR in the 1980 winter Olympics

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In Our Feeds

Celebrating Sports, Lamenting Meetings, and Mourning Bowling Balls

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Black and white photo of two men, seen from behind, walking down a dusty road carrying bags and wearing cowboy hats, with a billboard to the right reading "next time try the train relax"

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In Our Feeds

Critical Curricula, Boss Talks, and Buried National Treasure

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Maze in the shape of a brain

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In Our Feeds

Homeschooling Boom, Brain Games, and Rebooting 230

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Two young women, both wearing face masks, hold a pizza in front of a red pizza vending machine

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In Our Feeds

Clubhouse Crashers, Pizzabots, and Family Dynasties

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Private garage interior, very untidy. A workbench is drowned under a wild mix of tools, cans, boxes and what not. Nowhere to stand, let alone move.

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In Our Feeds

Debating Debate, Monumental Overhauls, and Our Stuff, Ourselves

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Photo of a cicada perched on a man's finger, with the man in the background smiling and out of focus

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News

Schooling Brood X

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Emoji badges on blue background

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In Our Feeds

Emoji Boss, IRL Bubbles, and Audiophile Elegy

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Series of green, white, blue, and black arcs made into an optical illusion to create the sensation that the image is swirling

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In Our Feeds

Phone Homes, Data Illusions, and Digital Canyons

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Illustration of a fox jumping over a fence

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In Our Feeds

ESports Exclusion, Active Resistance to Passive Voice, and Belgian Border Battle

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a group of students seated at desks and clapping

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Fan Mail

Teacher Appreciation Day: Guitar Hero Edition

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View of Earth rising over the Moon's horizon taken from the Apollo 11 spacecraft

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In Our Feeds

Bordeaux Blasts Off, Ocean Hot Dogs, and Supreme Student Speech

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Upside down ice cream cone melting down a sidewalk

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In Our Feeds

Dolly Parton Book Club, Hacking Soft Serve, and Hashtag YOLO

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Illustration of a young man, from the shoulders up, eyes closed and smirking, holding his hands up as a rainbow runs from one hand to the other with the words OK BOOMER placed over the rainbow

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In Our Feeds

Pandemic Lessons, Generation Gaps, and Wordplay

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Illustration of the mars helicopter ingenuity flying in a very red martian atmosphere while the mars rover perseverance sits parked in the background

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Interview

Mars-copters, Author Prophets, and Free Speech Zones

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Thousands of dominos organized in a multi-colored spiral

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In Our Feeds

NFT WTF, Dominos Queen, and #MemeFail

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An empty movie theater marquee sign with Cinema 6 above it standing in an empty field

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In Our Feeds

Pandemic Idioms, Filter Bubbles, and Walk-and-Talks

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Screenshot from an episode of The Simpsons showing Homer working alongside a robot in the nuclear power plant

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In Our Feeds

Deepfake Homers, Email Epocalypse, and Fukushima Photos

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Color illustration of an architectural project

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In Our Feeds

Hip-Hop Architecture, Algorithm Overload, and Qapla’

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Screenshot of a red and white parachute deployed, seen from below

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In Our Feeds

Space is the Place, Anti-Social Media, and Ode to a Beat

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Illustration from the 1970s in pink and white and red promoting Soul City by showing an outdoor market on the left, men golfing in the center, and an indoor shopping mall on the right

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In Our Feeds

Retraining America, Humanitarian Aid, and Utopian Dreams

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A set of bowling pins seen from behind as a bowling ball knocks them down

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In Our Feeds

Dollars for Bowling, “Crowd” Roars, and Calc Hack

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a black male college student sitting at a desk cluttered with books in a darkened library

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Extra Credit

What College Students Are Reading in 2021

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Cover of the first edition of Madden Football

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In Our Feeds

Madden Memories, Chicken Fried Debate, and Alternate Realities

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Color photo of professional baseball player Henry Aaron in the middle of swinging his bat in an empty stadium

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In Our Feeds

Hammerin’ Hank, the Zuck Court, and Beethoven’s Ear

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Black and white photo of Shirley Chisholm smiling as she stands at a podium

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In Our Feeds

Campus Care Crisis, Shirley’s Enduring Wisdom, and Loving Libraries

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Detail of the cover of the novel The Great Gatsby showing a set of female eyes against a blue background

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In Our Feeds

First Veep of Color, the Supreme Taylor Swift, and Gatsby Beats On

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Cover of the book Math Without Numbers

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Interview

The Shape of Donuts, the Universe, and Everything

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Pencil illustrated to look like a rocket ship blasting off into a cloudy blue sky with 2020 written across the pencil

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In Our Feeds

The 25 Things That Made Us Smarter in 2020

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the cover of why did i get a b against a dusty green chalkboard

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Interview

Teachers Aren’t Supposed to Talk Like That—Are They?

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a young female student sits on the floor of a library reading a book with a green cover

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Extra Credit

The Books That Got Students Hooked on Reading

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A young woman wearing blue headphones smiles as she listens to a podcast

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Extra Credit

Ten Great, Enjoyable, and Educational Podcasts

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grid of five icons on different color backgrounds representing five ap courses

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Extra Credit

Build Your Own Summer School with These Five AP Playlists

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A young woman and a young man, seen from behind, sitting on a couch watching television while the man points a remote at the tv

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Extra Credit

The 50 Best Historical and Educational Films Streaming Now

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a handwritten sign that reads thank you being held by a young woman

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Fan Mail

Teacher Appreciation Day: Above and Beyond Edition

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photo illustration showing the TikTok app is displayed on an Apple iPhone on

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Extra Credit

The Coolest Educational TikTok Accounts and Hashtags

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A line of seven trophies of varying shapes and sizes

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Fan Mail

Teacher Appreciation Day: Everyone Deserves a Trophy Edition

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a gold medal at the end of a red ribbon on a white background

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Fan Mail

Teacher Appreciation Day: GOATs and Gods Edition

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the cover of the book pencils you should know on a lavendar background surrounded by pencils in different colors

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Interview

Sharpening Our Pencil History, From Yellow to No. 2

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a frustrated student sitting at a desk covering her eyes

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Extra Credit

20 Mistakes Students Make When Applying to College

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a screenshot from the movie the perfect score showing a cake celebrating a test score

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Extra Credit

A Different Kind of Screen Test

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a row of yellow school buses

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Extra Credit

How the Yellow School Bus Got That Way

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a college student sitting on a bench reading a book while wearing headphones and guarding his bike

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Extra Credit

How to Read Like a College Student

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a female teenage high school student smiles and shows her smartphone to a friend sitting behind her in class

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Extra Credit

Don't Sleep On This Gen Z Slang Dictionary

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a room full of empty school desks where a small table is attached to a colorful wood and metal chair

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Extra Credit

Say Goodbye to the Classic School Desk

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a group of male and female high school students stand on a stage reading from scripts as they rehearse for a play

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Extra Credit

The Most Popular High School Musical in the Country Is Creepy, Kooky

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a photo of actor Matthew McConaughey wearing a dark cowboy hat, sunglasses, and an orange university of texas t shirt and smiling broadly

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Extra Credit

From True Detective to Real Professor

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a male teenage student sitting at a desk with a concerned look as other students rush past him

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Extra Credit

The SAT is a Workout—And Not Just for Your Brain

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