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The pieces sat up and wrote
“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.” Skiparee is an unpaved road that cleaves to Mount Anthony’s graduated ascent, a clay and quartz limn up a spare corner of southwest Vermont. A modest mountain; a serious hill;…
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Cruise Control, or Why Katie Ledecky Dominates Distance Freestyle
I began paying attention to Katie Ledecky, the American distance swimmer, after Brian Phillips wrote a fantastic profile on her for Grantland, in the fall of 2014. Ledecky was seventeen then; she had been the reigning world record-holder in the women’s 800 meter freestyle for over 2 years. Actually, reigning, which suggests stasis, isn’t the…
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So You Want to Be a Data Analyst, Chapter 2: The API (Is Just an ATM in The Sky)
Before you can extract any insights from data, you need to have the data in the first place. If you’re lucky, you do have the data sitting pretty in a database or can easily export it from its source origin. If you don’t, however, you can hit up an API to get it. You also…
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For Osme, With Love and Squalor (and Skeptikós)
The fall of my senior year of high school, I lost my sense of smell. It happened gradually, perhaps, or perhaps it didn’t. Before I lost it, I was not the sort of person who exclaims over how good things smell, or how bad, though there were scents that made me feel happy and sprightly,…
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A New York Moment
is waiting for your dog to hurry up and pee already before the nice man combing through your neighbor’s recycling gets to yours.
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