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While most of the West Coast uses the two interchangeably, there's a sharp divide between “um” and “uh” throughout most of the country.

"Going back many, many years, we’ve written about how the public narrative that the large social media networks engage in “anti-conservative bias” in their content moderation policies is bullshit."

"each straw has its own density and hue, and the analogue camera gives a straight indexical rendering of whatever is placed directly in front of it."

2017: "After nearly 100 years, the Carmel River runs unobstructed again and set a record for high flow levels in January."

"How filler words and tiny pauses keep conversations from going off the rails"

"If there was one thing you wish people understood better about astronomy, what would it be?"
You may think it's a long walk down to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts compared to the solar system.

Rock Paper Cynic: The Hunger Games as told by Lewis Carrol

The author's comments in 2004 about the infamously bad SyFy Channel miniseries.