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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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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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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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World Cup Madness, Analyzing Slumberland Anxieties, and Translating Tut

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Keyboard embedded in smoking computer monitor

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

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Close up of a gloomy octopus hiding in an underwater hole

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

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Human hand shaking a robot hand

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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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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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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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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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Pickleball, Fun Facts, and William Klein

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Technology wireframe tunnel on blue background

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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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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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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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Harvey Memories, Exhausting Coworkers, and Sloppy Baseballs

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Astronaut performing a spacewalk above a cloud-covered earth

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Overview Effects, Meal Shares, and STEM CHIPS

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A closeup of a bowl of Skittles

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Skittles, Speeches, and Stickers, Oh My!

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Handsome well dressed businessman reading burning newspaper

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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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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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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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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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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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Tracy Flick Returns, Drought Discoveries, and Omnipresent Student Journalists

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School Bus Rooftop with a white Wi-Fi symbol above it

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Wired School Buses, Advance STEM Invitations, and Unemployment Worries

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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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UFOs, Solar Sails, and Pioneering Coders

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Smartphone with the game Wordle on the screen

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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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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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Charismatic Creatures, Cinematic Invention, and Celebrating Teachers

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Colorful overlapping silhouettes of mobile phone users

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American Babel, Dissent Poetry, and Slow Drives

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Group of young adults, photographed from above, on various painted tarmac surface, at sunrise.

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High-Dosage Tutoring, Accelerated Degrees, and Computer Science Policies

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Three model skeletons in a row, holding swords and shields

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Putin’s People, Skeleton Crews, and National Baseball

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Close-up of coffee pot with hot coffee

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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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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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Nickelmania, Vocational Devotionals, and Reel Buffets

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

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

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Rainbow over Stonehenge

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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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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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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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Delivery Dilemmas, Stronger Smartphones, and Literal Everyday Apocalypses

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Abstract sunrise

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Melting Icebergs, Deep Freezes, and Expanding Hope

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Full Frame Shot Of a wall of Audio Cassettes

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Mixtape Memories, Macaque Matriarchs, and Matrix Mimesis

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Office desk with computer, phone, and files on beach

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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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25 Things That Made Us Smarter in 2021

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oregon trail screenshot

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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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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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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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Spooky Songs, Data Death, and Maximal Microchips

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Shelf of vinyl records and a record player

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

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Abstract colorful nebula

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Big Data, Giant Planets, and Huge Shoes to Fill

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Pile of floppy disks in various colors

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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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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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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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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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Mindhacks, Crackdowns, and Clickstreams

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Desert scene from the film Dune

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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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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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American Hermits, Conflict Resolution, and Long Grain Ingenuity

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Artist rendering of a pulsar

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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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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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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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TikTok Tangles, Melon Mania, and Slow Speeds

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Full frame of high angle view of circuit board.

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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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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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Critical Curricula, Boss Talks, and Buried National Treasure

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Maze in the shape of a brain

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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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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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Debating Debate, Monumental Overhauls, and Our Stuff, Ourselves

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Blue electric vehicle charger plugged into the front of a silver electric car

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Recharging EVs, Repairing Tractors, and Remembering Carle

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Emoji badges on blue background

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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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Phone Homes, Data Illusions, and Digital Canyons

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Illustration of a fox jumping over a fence

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

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

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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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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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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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A depiction of sound waves shown in pinks, purples, and blues

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Mod Squads, Hacking DNA, and Sounds of Sounds

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Thousands of dominos organized in a multi-colored spiral

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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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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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Deepfake Homers, Email Epocalypse, and Fukushima Photos

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Color illustration of an architectural project

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

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Cover of the first edition of Madden Football

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

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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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The 25 Things That Made Us Smarter in 2020

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