William Brennan

@wm_brennan

AKA Billy. Journalist: , ,

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Joined July 2012
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    Feb 21

    When I started investigating this story last summer, I thought it would be about a bad roommate and a few unfortunate Craigslist ads. It ended up going places I never could've imagined. via

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  2. Retweeted
    7 hours ago

    Omg humans are the new dinosaurs...forcing other mammals to go nocturnal by our mere predatory presence

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  3. 7 hours ago

    For , I wrote about why mammals all over the world have suddenly started going nocturnal (hint: it’s got to do with humans, and it might be igniting major evolutionary change in a huge number of species)

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  4. Aug 24

    “The walls of the Ido Portal movement school are covered in handprints, scuff marks, and phrases like ‘Let them DIRTY the walls, motherfucker!’” I am pleased to inform you there’s a new piece in :

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  5. Aug 24

    "Science reporters cheered having a story that united dinosaurs *and* extraterrestrials *and* Cold War fever dreams—it needed only 'some sex and the involvement of the Royal Family and the whole world would be paying attention,' one journalist wrote."

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  6. Retweeted
    Aug 15

    Given the massive institutional/policy build-up post 9/11, no one should be surprised by calls to abolish the most excessive & ineffective organs of the national security state.

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  7. Aug 16

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    Aug 9

    An accidental copy-editing poem: “Comma instead, or commas below, but this is a lot of em dashes in a row.” (Cc )

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  9. Jul 9

    Waiting for the bus a block from Independence Hall. (He's protesting tonight at the federal courthouse across the street.)

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  10. May 19

    After her husband was killed in a hate crime in Kansas, an immigrant reevaluates her American Dream

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  11. May 11

    "By the time she learned she'd been living a lie, she'd endured unimaginable tragedy, and had nothing left. 'Everybody ends up defending the pearl until they lose,' she said. 'And they lose big.'"

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  12. May 11

    Can't tell if the voices that read stories for Audm are very stilted-sounding humans or extremely natural-sounding robots.

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  13. May 6

    Contiguous America First.

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  14. Apr 19

    ‘Worst Roommate Ever’ Acquired By Blumhouse In A First For Both Film & TV via

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  15. Apr 18

    "It got to the point where I could only put a piece of popcorn in my mouth every 10 minutes whenever the sound would get high enough. Even then, I would have to hold the popcorn in my mouth until it was soft enough to chew without making any noise."

    Watching "A Quiet Place" in a theater? Crunch, slurp or sniffle at your own risk.
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    Apr 18

    How to sway a baboon despot—and other wild tales from animal democracy, by

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  17. Apr 11

    "Drivers in mortal dread of crossing the Delaware Memorial Bridge ... can turn to the Acrophobia Escorts program, named after the fear of heights. Patrolmen meet them at the head of the bridge, then drive their cars across for them."

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    Apr 9

    At 92, a Holocaust survivor recalls the fateful moment that saved her life, and the remarkable message she received 20 years later. Aeon Video:

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  19. Apr 2

    Why...

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  20. Mar 29

    "Paradoxically, the radiation-treated animals [who tended to develop tumors] lived longer than the nonexposed controls.

    New studies link cell phone radiation with cancer
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  21. Mar 16

    "You get on their bad side and all of a sudden you are face to face with Mark Zuckerberg’s secret police."

    'They'll squash you like a bug': how Silicon Valley keeps a lid on leakers
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