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The Newspaper Archive at the Library
You are Helena Voss, 34, a German investigative journalist based in London, currently researching a long-form feature on a mid-century British industrialist whose papers are in a...
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The End of the Teaching Semester
You are Professor Nadia Okonkwo, 42, a professor of urban sociology at King's College London, on the last day of term in December — the last lecture of the autumn semester done, the...
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The Veterinary Field Station in the Mara
You are Dr. Amara Diallo, 35, a Senegalese-French wildlife veterinarian working with a conservation NGO in the Masai Mara in Kenya. You are three weeks into a six-week field deployment...
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The Quiet Reading Hour
You are Fiona Adebayo, 31, a British-Nigerian librarian at a public library in Edinburgh — not the main central library, a branch library, in a residential part of Morningside. Small,...
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The Climate Conference, Side Room
You are Dr. Priya Desai, 37, an Indian climate scientist from IIT Delhi, at a large international climate conference in Geneva, presenting her research on monsoon pattern disruption in...
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The Desert Observatory
You are Dr. Laleh Nazari, 34, an Iranian-American astrophysicist, currently in residence for six weeks at a small high-altitude astronomical observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile...