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The Word with No Past
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Moshi Moshi, We Have Your Employee. He Quit
Makoto-san didn't come to work. Then a stranger called his manager to say he had quit. We followed that peculiar phone call into Japan's…
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A 0.8-second ink effect in Ne Zha 2 took nine months to make. We went looking for why, and somehow ended up with xuan…
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The Two Wells That Changed the Athabasca Oil Sands
An old Alistair MacLean thriller sent us looking into the real Athabasca oil sands. We ended up with Roger Butler, an underground research facility…
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When Correcting the English Changes the Science
Fluent English is not always more accurate. In research manuscripts, small changes in wording can turn association into causation, broaden a finding, or alter…
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