Disadvent 13

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About five years' worth of Swarthmore alumni magazines to the 11yo's science teacher, who said at parents' night that she could use old magazines, and confirmed by email that those would be fine. I don't know what they'll be used for, but they do often have articles about scientist students and alumni, and I think they intentionally try to be diverse about it, so they're potentially a good source for images of scientists who aren't white men, if there's some kind of science collaging happening. (But for all I know they're being used for paper mache, or the pages are being ripped out and rolled up and banded together and used in an egg drop, I just don't know.)

(Now I'm thinking about all the content-irrelevant reasons a school might want magazines. Insulation. Soundproofing. Burning in a bomb calorimeter to demonstrate the conceptual stupidity of nutritional calories. Boxes of them used as doorstops. Etc.)