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Maggie Koerth

@maggiek.bsky.social

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Science journalist and editor. Columnist at Star Tribune. Sometimes news at Science Friday. Nieman Fellow '15. Previously: Science journalist with FiveThirtyEight, NYT Magazine, BoingBoing, mental_floss, and etc. My views are not my employer's.

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 8d

From the Malt-O-Meal factory in Northfield to the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District in Duluth, Minnesota’s cities are full of smells that pull us back to specific moments in our lives — who we were and how we felt. But why are smell and memory so linked?

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Koerth: Wild onions, jasmine, Malt-O-Meal: What do your memories smell like?

"Minnesota’s cities are full of smells that pull us back to specific moments in our lives — who we were and how we felt," Maggie Koerth writes.

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 1h

More importantly, if the gangs have figured out how to counteract the Bowling Alone problem then someone needs to call Robert Putnam

Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 1h

I have long maintained that if I ever get rich, I’m donating an endowed copy machine to the University of Kansas. The Koerth Memorial Print-Copy Machine will have a plaque on it. I plan to locate it in the creepiest corner of one of the Humanities buildings.

☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 1h

my freshmen basically structure their entire lives around not printing things out bc the university makes it so expensive for them to do that. im looking into coursepacks for the next time i teach this course

Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 1h

Does anyone still make coursepacks for students?

Super common when I was in college & grad school, but I imagine putting PDFs on the LMS has mostly (entirely?) replaced it. Anyone just printing out everything for them?

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 7h

genuine question for mid-career people: what concrete tips do you have to keep service from swamping your own writing?

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 1h

As an adult, I refuse to believe 5% of any city is regularly attending ANY organization.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 7h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 6h

I love that this allows you to read Captain Ahab in the voice of The Dude.

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 6h

“I fear not thy epidemic, man,” said Ahab

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 2d

Cornbread Harris is an American treasure.

Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 2d

The Schooner just played the two best country songs humanly possible (i.e., Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox When I Die and I Like My Women Just a Little on the Trashy Side). They followed that up with Purple Rain. I already love it here.

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