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  • Nebraska is Nebraska

    Nebraska is Nebraska

    For the month of October I lived in Nebraska, following a political campaign trail that sent me all across its agrarian lands. And now back in Colorado, I can look back at my experiences across state borders in introspection, and I find it difficult to call Nebraska anything more than by its own name. Nebraska…

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  • The “Blassroom”

    The “Blassroom”

    While the campus says “goodnight” and the once lit rooms gradually fade dim, there remains a building still bright. Its slits of light shine through the cold, bitter air. This building: an inconspicuous red box between the culvert of Residence Halls “B” and “E”.

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  • Penguin-Baader-Meinhof

    Penguin-Baader-Meinhof

    The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is usually harmless. But not always. The Penguin seems to suggest that in the same way one notices more good when exposed to good, one also notices more bad when exposed to bad. What I coin the Penguin-Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is when one is overexposed to the “bad”, and its illusion gets amplified…

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  • Listen to the Music

    Listen to the Music

    There exists an object called an electron in all atoms. For decades, scientists were certain that the electron existed as a tiny, tiny ball. It does. But that’s not all it is. It was later uncovered that the electron is also a wave, like sound waves or ripples across an ocean surface. But how can…

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  • Why I Write

    Why I Write

    Creating a website is a time consuming task, even for a basic domain like this. Why would I create a website? The answer is: so I have a place to write. But why would I want to write? Society hates writing. (Most) kids deliberately avoid writing outside of class. Text chats are increasingly filled with…

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