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I Gave a Thousand Typewriters to a Thousand Monkeys, but Instead of Hamlet, They Just Keep Writing Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar

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I Gave a Thousand Typewriters to a Thousand Monkeys, but Instead of Hamlet, They Just Keep Writing Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Any scientist worth their salt eventually becomes accustomed to unpredictability. The unfortunate reality is that the majority of experiments fail—lab rats explode, bacteria escape the petri dish, etc. Still, I never anticipated that things could ever go this awry. For the past decade, I have been conducting a highly expensive and groundbreaking…

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Short Conversations with Poets: Matthew Zapruder

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Short Conversations with Poets: Matthew Zapruder Mahmoud Darwish called clarity the greatest mystery. Matthew Zapruder writes poems that are precise in their architecture and mysteriously limpid in their meanings. And full of avowals, resistances to any final conclusiveness, open to—even when saddened by—the endless mutability of things. A mutability that seems to call up in him an energy of d…

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How Our Pants Fit

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How Our Pants Fit To determine whether your body will fit our pants, please use this sizing guide. Our pants are measured in cubits. The cubit is a unit of measurement less ancient than legs, but more ancient than the notion that we should clad them somehow. It’s equal to the distance between someone’s elbow and their longest fingertip. Whose elbow and fingertip?…

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Instagram logout issue

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Instagram logout issue For some reason whenever I go to use any monetization features in the professional dashboard, Instagram logs me out. Anyone know why this may be happening or how to fix it? submitted by /u/Key_Possession1737

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Is there a software service that alerts me to social media platform “keywords”?

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Is there a software service that alerts me to social media platform “keywords”? I follow a bunch of (around 60) Facebook groups in relation to my field. I have a social media manager who is handling my account to be the “reply guy” to relevant posts where I might get leads. Is there a software service that tracks and alerts me to “keywords” or “key phrases” when they pop up? This would help my SMM a lot. submitted by …

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