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		<title>The ego of public life, part III</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2019/01/the-ego-of-public-life-part-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2019 22:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July of 2013, I started writing publicly every (work) day. Then, after four and a half years, in November 2017, I stopped. There are a lot of reasons why I started writing -- and a lot of reasons why I let the habit go. <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2019/01/the-ego-of-public-life-part-iii/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Cost of Visibility</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/11/the-cost-of-visibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2017 23:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening to an interview yesterday with Susan Striker,&#160;Associate Professor of Gender &#38; Women&#8217;s Studies and author of the (recently updated) book Transgender History, I was struck by the core of her argument: Transgender people have always been around, it&#8217;s just that now they are more visible than they used to be. And they are visible [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/11/the-cost-of-visibility/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>White Space</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/10/white-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2017 15:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, I had the opportunity to attend a rich discussion hosted by The Welcome Project with local author&#160;Jennifer De Leon. The conversation focused on De Leon&#8217;s 2013 short story&#160;The White Space. While helping her father put together his first r&#233;sum&#233;, the&#160;U.S.-born De Leon writes: Without cell phone or fax numbers, email or website addresses, [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/10/white-space/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>TERFs</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/terfs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, an altercation related to a &#8220;What is Gender?&#8221; event occurred&#160;in Speaker&#8217;s Corner &#8211; &#8220;a traditional site for public speeches and debates&#8221; in London. The event was organized by a group self-identified&#160;&#8220;gender-critical feminists&#8221; &#8211; essentially, women who don&#8217;t believe that all women deserve equal rights. As you might imagine, in the face of such [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/terfs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Robot Humor</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/robot-humor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2017 19:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computer Science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Text processing algorithms are notoriously bad at processing humor. The subtle, contradictory humor of irony and sarcasm can be particularly hard to automatically detect. If, for example, I wrote, &#8220;Sharknado 2 is my favorite movie,&#8221; an algorithm would most likely take that statement at face value. It would find the word &#8220;favorite&#8221; to be highly [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/robot-humor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Nature of Failure</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/the-nature-of-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of attending a talk today by&#160;Dashun Wang,&#160;Associate Professor at Northwestern&#8217;s Kellogg School of Management. While one of our lab groups is currently studying the &#8216;science of success,&#8217; Wang &#8211; a former member of that lab, is studying the nature of failure. Failure, Wang argued, is much more ubiquitous than success. Indeed, [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/the-nature-of-failure/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>So Long and Thanks for All the Fish (Or, A Tribute to Cassini)</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish-or-a-tribute-to-cassini/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meaninglessness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 7:55 EST this morning, the Cassini spacecraft sent its final message to Earth before plunging into Saturn&#8217;s atmosphere. Reaching speeds over&#160;77,200 miles (144,200 kilometers) per hour, Cassini experienced temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun, causing the spacecraft to char and break apart, its elemental components ultimately diluting in the atmosphere of the [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish-or-a-tribute-to-cassini/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Medusa</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/07/medusa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2017 20:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say that Medusa was the most horrifying woman ever known. According to legend, she was so&#160;terrible to behold that a mere glance at her viper-enshrined&#160;visage&#160;was enough to render the seer stone. She was so ugly, so terrible to look at, that one could not even survive the horror. The hero Perseus caught off her [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/07/medusa/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Days</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/07/summer-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love how summer days roll by. I love long summer days and warm summer nights. I love the feeling of possibility,&#160;as if everything will be sunny and relaxing forever. I love sitting outside and reading a good book. *** I hate how summer days drag on. I hate how hard it is to focus, [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/07/summer-days/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hungarian Art and Weltanschauung</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/07/hungarian-art-and-weltanschauung/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired in part by my recent trip to the Hungarian National Gallery, I&#8217;ve been reading &#201;va Forg&#225;cs excellent book, &#8220;Hungarian Art.&#8221; Forg&#225;cs frames the arc of&#160;Hungarian art through the lens of an ongoing tension between&#160;&#8220;European&#8221; art and culture and distinctively &#8220;Hungarian&#8221; art and culture. In the late 19th century, for example,&#160;artists and scholars such as&#160;K&#225;roly [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/07/hungarian-art-and-weltanschauung/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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