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@rebeccaonion

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Recent Writing

A Physicist Eyewitness Sketches the First Atomic Test (July 16, 2014; Slate's The Vault Blog)

Those Funny 19th-Century "Reasons for Admission" to Mental Institutions (July 13, 2014; Slate's The Vault Blog)

"Unclaimed Treasures of Science" (July 10, 2014; Slate)