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		<title>She had been designed and built specifically to be Grand Fleet Headquarters, and nothing else</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I’ve mentioned before, a modern warship’s Combat Information Center — that wonderfully telegenic room full of maps, computer consoles, and sweeping polar displays of radar and sonar echos — was, according to Rear Admiral Cal Laning, taken “specifically, consciously, and directly” from the spaceship Directrix in the Lensman novels of E.E. Smith, Ph.D. Smith [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Tubi has more than 110 million monthly active users</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn’t realize that Tubi was owned by Fox, but I’m not at all surprised that it has taken off, with more than 110 million monthly active users: “It really feels like we are seeing both in Tubi’s results and in the market a clear validation of a strategy that Tubi has believed in and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you say&#8230;hero?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Junod’s 1998 Esquire piece Can You Say&#8230;Hero? profiles Mr. Rogers: He was barely more than a boy himself when he learned what he would be fighting for, and fighting against, for the rest of his life. He was in college. He was a music major at a small school in Florida and planning to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Lloyd Vogel comes from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently watched Tom Hanks’ Mr. Rogers movie, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (on Netflix), and I wasn’t expecting it to star Matthew Rhys, whom I know through The Americans and, more recently, Widow’s Bay. Rhys plays a jaded journalist tasked with producing a puff piece on the popular children’s show host, but the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Once they were no longer censored, they ceased to have a subject</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifteen summers ago, Ann Manov was spending 15 hours a week in a neurology lab, sorting fruit flies under a microscope, freezing them in liquid nitrogen, and pureeing their sliced-off heads, but the only thing that made her want to get out of bed in the morning was a class on the Russian short story [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Senses Taker would love social media</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven’t read The Phantom Tollbooth since they had us read it in sixth grade. Like A Wrinkle in Time, it’s an elementary school teacher’s idea of science fiction. I didn’t know the book’s origin: Architect Norton Juster was living in his hometown of Brooklyn, after three years in the Navy. In June 1960, he [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>At least 50 percent of ambulance services nationwide were being provided by morticians</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Randolph Mantooth, known for playing paramedic Johnny Gage on the “Emergency!” TV series in the 1970s, died July 9 at age 80: Mantooth broke out in 1972 when he was cast in “Emergency!,” which introduced the profession of paramedics to the public. He co-starred with Kevin Tighe in the popular NBC series which ran for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>She was delirious with an awful fever</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the fifth book of the Little House series, By the Shores of Silver Lake, Mary Ingalls goes blind due to scarlet fever — but that doesn’t seem to be what really happened: In the spring of 1879, 14-year-old Mary &#8220;was taken suddenly sick with a pain in her head and grew worse quickly. She [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Runaway</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/07/runaway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have zero recollection of the movie Runaway coming out in 1984 — and, more tellingly, no recollection of it playing on cable or coming up in conversation after that. At some point in this last decade, it came up somehow, as a bit of a punchline, because it features Gene Simmons — yes, Gene [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>His supposed deal with the devil became a marketing trope</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/06/his-supposed-deal-with-the-devil-became-a-marketing-trope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blues music is respected now, but, as David Epstein’s explains (in Inside the Box), it was known in its early days as “the devil’s music.” Pious families learned that blues shouldn’t be played in the house. [Robert] Johnson learned a different lesson: that competent guitar players could attract whiskey, women, and a little spending cash. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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