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Emily Strasser @emilystrasser.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This was uncharacteristic of me! Thanks to @belinaraffy.bsky.social for this class! And to my fellow comedians from @climatena.bsky.social for all you do to tend big feelings in big times, for making me laugh and think, and for helping me make my jokes better. www.theguardian.com/culture/ng-i...

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Climate anxiety was consuming me. Then I learned to laugh about it

The daily dread pushed me to enroll in a standup class. Could I channel my despair into something lighter?

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Emily Strasser @emilystrasser.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I LOVE @thesundaylongread.bsky.social and frequently peruse for new stories to teach. Such a fun surprise to see my Doomsday Clock piece in this week’s edition!

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Emily Strasser @emilystrasser.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

For Popular Mechanics, I went behind the scenes to meet the people behind the @thebulletin.org’s Doomsday Clock. I asked—what does it mean to anticipate apocalypse as your job? www.popularmechanics.com/science/a695...

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Humanity Is on a Fast Track to Destruction, Scientists Say. I Met the Experts Counting Down to the Apocalypse.

“We’re driving at the edge of a cliff with dim headlights.”

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Emily Strasser @emilystrasser.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

A power struggle over the succession of leadership, a general committed to an outdated and insane military doctrine, a national leader who won’t pick up the phone due to a perceived slight…It left me infuriated at the resources that have been poured into weapons that could literally end us all.

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Emily Strasser @emilystrasser.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I recently (finally) read Annie Jacobsen’s terrifying Nuclear War: A Scenario. While the description of weapons systems and nuclear effects were alarming, what was most upsetting was the way the individual egos and paranoia determined the catastrophic outcome. bookshop.org/p/books/nucl...

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Nuclear War: A Scenario

A Scenario

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Emily Strasser @emilystrasser.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

This is extremely alarming?! Words like this, even if they are only threats right now, can lead to devastating escalation. There have been dire close calls in the past, and the international architecture to prevent nuclear war is dangerously fragile right now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Trump redeploys nuclear submarines after ex-Russia leader’s menacing tweet

Order suggests president might be ready to launch nuclear strike against Russia as tensions rise over Ukraine war

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Emily Strasser @emilystrasser.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Happy to be at TN Tech for #appstudies2025! Find Half-Life at the @kentuckypress.bsky.social table, and me at the Power of Stories panel at 9:30 am Saturday. #appalachianstudies, #ruralreimagined

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Emily Strasser @emilystrasser.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Also this one is a quiet piece that relies almost completely on immersion and observation, but speaks to an (inter)national story. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

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The shelter and the storm

What happened when the nation’s immigration crisis came to a small town in Massachusetts?

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Emily Strasser @emilystrasser.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I find in my classes that it leads to really interesting conversations about what we can learn when the subjective first person voice becomes lens and tool. And what are the limitations and pitfalls.

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Emily Strasser @emilystrasser.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Thanks for doing this! Would love to be added— my deeply researched memoir traces the intimate, global, and environmental legacies of Oak Ridge through my grandfather’s work there — www.kentuckypress.com/978081319719...

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Half-Life of a Secret - The University Press of Kentucky

In 1942, the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area west of Knoxville, Tennessee. Unmark...

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Emily Strasser @emilystrasser.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

My deeply researched memoir, HALF-LIFE OF A SECRET, traces my journey to reckon with the toxic legacy of my grandfather’s work building nuclear weapons on intimate and global scales. www.kentuckypress.com/978081319719...

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Half-Life of a Secret - The University Press of Kentucky

In 1942, the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area west of Knoxville, Tennessee. Unmark...

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