"Roland Barthes in his classic study of photography, Camera Lucida, uses two terms, punctum and studium, to descrube our reactions to photographs.

"The studium can be translated as what the photo represents in aesthetic and intellectual terms, wholly disconnected from our emotional response.

"The punctum can be translated as the wound of the photograph. It's both emotional and individual. The punctum for you might be different from my sense of the punctum in a photograph.

"It's a small detail that wounds us, a bou's crooked teeth in a photograph of smiling boys, a man shading his eyes from the sun in another."

--Robin Hemley, essay Lines that Create Motion, The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre

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2022 Guide to Small Modular Reactors

"SMRs are advanced reactors with a power capacity of typically up to 300 MW(e) per unit, which is about
one-third of the generating capacity of traditional nuclear power reactors and whose components and
systems can be shop fabricated and then transported as modules to the sites for installation as demand arises."

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McCheapest - Tracking Big Mac prices across the US

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