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Scratching An Itch
Today in Tedium: It may be weird to consider in a world where we have so many ways to interact with things through touch, but we don’t use all of those types of interaction to communicate with a...
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Impeachment Growth Hacking
Today in Tedium: Last fall, controversial satirist Andy Borowitz wrote a piece that tied together two stories that were getting a lot of attention in the news around that time: Former president Barack...
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Cosmic Mistake
By James B. Kaler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign About this feature In our efforts to bring you more fascinatingly Tedious content, we’ll now be publishing a weekly piece from The...
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Feelin’ 7UP
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from David Buck, who is spending tonight taking a tour through one of the more iconic brands on the soda aisle. Without further ado, Make 7 Up Yours. Today in Tedium:...
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Taking Stock
Today in Tedium: Writing a newsletter like this, you gain “desired gets” over time. One of those desired gets is an interview with John Legere, the CEO of the mobile company he helped revive,...
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Not All Heroes Wear Capes
By Michael C. Weisenburg, University of South Carolina About this feature In our efforts to bring you more fascinatingly Tedious content, we’ll now be publishing a weekly piece from The Conversation...
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The Internet Of Trash
Today in Tedium: Recently, I had a bizarre customer service experience involving a company that I have been critical of at many junctures over the years. That company was Apple, and the reason I was...
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Stop Stealing My Sign
Hey all, Ernie here with a refreshed classic of a piece, originally from 2016, about the history and legacy of the political yard sign. With Super Tuesday just weeks away in the U.S., things are...
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Thanks, Craig
By Jessa Lingel, University of Pennsylvania About this feature In our efforts to bring you more fascinatingly Tedious content, we’ll now be publishing a weekly piece from The Conversation US, an...
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Not-So-Missed Connections
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from Yuri Litvinenko, who has written some fascinating tech pieces for us. Today he dives into the once more complicated world of phone connectors. Read on! Today in...
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Point Of Saturation
Hey all, Ernie here with a fresh piece from Andrew Egan, who has had a bit of a fascination with technology vendors lately. This time, he has his eye on a POS system. Today in Tedium: Specialization...
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Now You See It …
By Marc Longenecker, Wesleyan University About this feature In our efforts to bring you more fascinatingly Tedious content, we’ll now be publishing a weekly piece from The Conversation US, an...
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Bread End
Today in Tedium: With apologies to those on a ketogenic diet, I have bread on my mind this morning. Despite the fact that there is something massive happening in the news right now that I probably...
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Double Vision
Today in Tedium: Of the many technical innovations of the past 50 years, there is perhaps none that says more about our culture than the picture-in-picture display. Despite living in a world where...
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By Steve Calandrillo, University of Washington About this feature In our efforts to bring you more fascinatingly Tedious content, we’ll now be publishing a weekly piece from The Conversation US, an...
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Thinking In Parallels
Today in Tedium: I’ve been thinking a lot about the way that history can create parallels we can build upon and learn from. In part, it’s because I’ve seen things that I’ve written take this status of...
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The Mail-Order Blues
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from from David Buck, who felt compelled to do a pretty sizable refresh of a piece he wrote last year on a certain kind of guitar with a certain retail tie. I’ll let...
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Grab Your Rolls
By Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University About this feature In our efforts to bring you more fascinatingly Tedious content, we’ll now be publishing a weekly piece from The Conversation US, an excellent...
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Looking For Reasons To Laugh
Today in Tedium: As our life has been thoroughly disrupted twelve days from Tuesday, I’ve found it difficult to ignore the evil beast in front of us, a beast that flattens the curve in more ways than...
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Extraterrestrial Rock & Roll
Hey, Ernie here. In these extremely screwed up times, I know you guys need a break from thinking about all that for 10 minutes or so. So who better to offer that up than David Buck, our resident...
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