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James Gleick @around.com Author. Chaos, The Information, Time Travel.
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My new history of the telephone will appear in November.
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
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Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social Founder of Liminal (LiminalCreations.com) & co-founder of Unbreaking (Unbreaking.org) Focused on turning knowledge into action. #science #communication #sensemaking #scicomm She/her. Married to Ed Yong.
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Stewart Brand @stewartbrand.bsky.social Sampling here. Mostly on Twitter still as @stewartbrand.
SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social Our mission is to lead humanity’s quest to understand the origins and prevalence of life and intelligence in the universe and share that knowledge.
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