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Comcast Gouging In Boston

a: Boston ~
b: many other cities

What: "Boston is like many cities and suffers from a lack of cable competition and increasingly-eroded regulatory authority, meaning that local incumbent Comcast can generally overcharge for services as they see fit without competitive or regulatory repercussions"

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Writer: Karl Bode
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Date: May 14 2012 1:51 PM


Her Long Drive Home

a: Boston ~
b: an ant colony

What: "The small towns and their miniscule speed limits gave me a chance to really look around, and appreciate the sheer desolation of a rural community. I've come to notice that Boston is like an ant colony, with thousands of people in any given place all going somewhere different."

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Writer: Ethan Edson
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Date: May 14 2012 2:16 PM



a: visible light ~
b: one particular note in a Beethoven symphony

What:

"An astronomer who only studies visible light is like someone who could only hear one particular note in a Beethoven symphony. Infrared astronomers can hear a much wider part of the symphony of the Universe. They can detect what would be analogous to all the notes played in the bass clef."


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Writer: J. S. Sweitzer
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Date: Feb 13 2015 10:44 AM



a: Sexual selection ~
b: tweaking a picture

What:

"At best, sexual selection is like using Photoshop to tweak an already-existing picture."


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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Mar 13 2015 9:51 AM



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