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Ed Finn

When crises unleash your imagination

Ed Finn, director of the Center for Science and the Imagination and associate professor with a joint appointment in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and the Department of English, joins Torie Bosch, editor of Future Tense, to explore how crises can unleash our imaginations as part of a new Future Tense biweekly series called Social Distancing Socials.

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