Reflections 0n life chained to the phone

In 2017 I was struck by how students at the universitywhere I teach were often ignoring personal contact(s) while focused solely on their phones. One particular incident led me to craft a short piece for The Drabble website - which challenges authors to submit stories of 100 words or less. They accepted it and published it. The content is below, along with a direct link to the site: Lives Short-Circuited by The Screen APRIL 3, 2017 ~ THE DRABBLE By Mark Marchand It’s a rainy Wednesday afternoon at the university where I teach. As I enter…

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Detail of the surface of Pluto, from NASA' New Horizons space probe. 2016

Scientists gather in Boston to discuss research and battle anti-science political agenda

In the city that helped launched the great democracy experiment known as America, scientists from around the world gathered last month to discuss and share their latest research — and to draw battle lines against the ideological, anti-science platform of the new administration in Washington.

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