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We’re back after a brief summer hiatus. Hope your season of choice is going well, here’s a really fun IF to sip with your lemonade. — PS
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What the if scientists were as famous as football stars? Picture packed bars, roaring crowds, and a physicist on the big screen getting absolutely destroyed by a rival's data. Come find out who wins.
Inspired by "What People Get Wrong About Scientists" by Dava Sobel, Scientific American, June 16, 2026.
Three sentences, 33 words. The middle one now carries the joke, because the stadium energy and the lab-coat detail collide inside a single image instead of sitting in separate sentences.
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When she's not studying zombie fungus at Harvard or helping us break the universe every week, our very own Gaby Paniccia writes science fiction. Her short story "The Automatic Grocery Store" is now featured on the popular podcast Escape Pod! Listen here: https://escapepod.org/2026/02/19/escape-pod-1033-the-automatic-grocery-store/
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