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Kristin Houser

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Kristin Houser is a staff writer at Freethink, where she covers science and tech. Her written work has appeared in Business Insider, NBC News, and the World Economic Forum’s Agenda, among other publications, and Stephen Colbert once talked about a piece on The Late Show, to her delight.

Prior to joining Freethink, Kristin was a staff writer for Futurism and wrote several animated and live action web series.

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an image of a Chinese rocket circled, with an arrow pointing toward an image of Mars
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Abstract split image taken from the surface of the ocean
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Close-up split-image of a mouse with one half in natural color and the other half in a pink hue
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Embodied AI industrial robot arm conducting a sorting task with various objects.
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