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Marc Merlin

A low-cost wireless solution to help get you through those pesky internet outages

If you’re like me, what once were tolerable home internet outages now seem to last forever. My basic online needs aren’t great — reading…

9 min readNov 1, 2020

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A low-cost wireless solution to help get you through those pesky internet outages

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Marc Merlin

Lindsay Ellis’s Axiom’s End, a smart and thought-provoking first-contact thrill ride

I am a big fan of Lindsay Ellis and her video essays analyzing film and literature. I can’t click “play” quickly enough when one of them…

3 min readSep 3, 2020

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Lindsay Ellis’s Axiom’s End, a smart and thought-provoking first-contact thrill ride

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Marc Merlin

Tickling the tail of the COVID-19 dragon

In trying to come up with a metaphor that captures the ill-considered approach used by many Republican governors to address the COVID-19…

5 min readJun 28, 2020

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Tickling the tail of the COVID-19 dragon

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Marc Merlin

It’s time for us to have “the talk” about COVID-19 and the need to stay the social distancing…

I think it’s time we sat down and had “the talk,” the facts of life talk, that is. In this case, it’s going to be the facts of life under…

4 min readApr 15, 2020

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It’s time for us to have “the talk” about COVID-19 and the need to stay the social distancing…

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Marc Merlin

It’s time to submit your Official Georgia Absentee Ballot Application

If you’re a registered voter in Georgia, you should receive an Application for Official Absentee Ballot in the mail by Friday, April 10…

5 min readApr 6, 2020

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It’s time to submit your Official Georgia Absentee Ballot Application

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Marc Merlin

Some hygiene tips for Facebook posting in the era of COVID-19

If your Facebook newsfeed is anything like mine these days, it is filled with COVID-19-related posts, some of them good, some of them bad…

4 min readMar 21, 2020

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Marc Merlin

Embracing impeachment rope-a-dope: the critical importance of pursuing Congressional subpoenas in…

Holding the American electorate in low regard is hardly something new. Quoting journalist and social commentator H.L. Mencken from a 1926…

5 min readNov 23, 2019

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Embracing impeachment rope-a-dope: the critical importance of pursuing Congressional subpoenas in…

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Marc Merlin

“A Warning” — just say no to more Trump porn

Although “A Warning” by an unnamed a senior Trump administration official won’t be released until November 19, advance copies are out and…

3 min readNov 8, 2019

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“A Warning” — just say no to more Trump porn

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Marc Merlin

It’s all in the timing: a tale of two detonations

You might think that this double-barrelled cannon sitting next to City Hall in Athens, Georgia could be prop in some sort of misguided…

4 min readMay 19, 2019

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It’s all in the timing: a tale of two detonations

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Marc Merlin

On Trump’s running out the clock on Congressional subpoenas: why the Supreme Court is of little…

As I have discussed elsewhere, one constructive side-effect of the Donald Trump administration and its abundance of deliberately…

4 min readMay 14, 2019

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On Trump’s running out the clock on Congressional subpoenas: why the Supreme Court is of little…

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Marc Merlin

Marc Merlin

My interests include science, politics, philosophy, and film. I am the former Executive Director of the Atlanta Science Tavern a grassroots science forum.

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