Harry R. Schwartz

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How I Build Emacs From Source on Debian

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What’s Your Favorite Grain to Puff?

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Transcript of Beer’s Research Into a Cybernetic Analogue of Fabric

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Photogrammetry with Beans

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Panorama Point, Nebraska

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If COVID Were a War

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What Bird Is That?

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Renaming Your Default Git Branch

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Some Recipes for Stress-Cooking

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Burro Racing’s Triple Crown

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Growing Up On `Shoshah4muufuiB` Drive

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Graffiti in Miami

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Canadian Permanent Residency

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Climbing Longs Peak via the Keyhole Route

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Build Your Own Snippet Manager

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Graduating the CMC’s Alpine Climbing School

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The Qinling-Huaihe Line

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Diving the Great Barrier Reef

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Hiking the Decalibron

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SNOTEL & Meteor Burst Communication

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Backpacking in Great Sand Dunes NP

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Phatic Interactions

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Amateur and Professional Software

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Implementing Sets with Functions

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Removing the “New Messages” Badge from Slack

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Racecar Beds

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Blowing is Happening in the Mind

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Finding Jobs in Software

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Monkey Island

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Just a Reminder That `arandr` Exists

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Wordograms

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The Greeks and the Trojans

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A T-shirt to Celebrate GDPR!

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Sending Newsbeuter/Newsboat Articles to Instapaper

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Fuzz—Use Fuzzy Matchers on Ruby Objects

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Disabling Autoplaying Videos in Firefox

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On Frilling

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Recommended Reading from the DeepSpec Summer School

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Lifting Lambdas into Supercombinators

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Transcript of Nall’s Continuations

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Vanity Plates of Silicon Valley

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Compression Algorithm Detection with `tar`

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Byzantine Testing

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Verified, Validated, or Certified?

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Verifying Distributed Systems with Verdi

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Ubiquitous Hummingbirds!

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Why Formal Semantics?

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Road Trip Photos 2016

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The Bouba/kiki Effect

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Parlor Rollers

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Moving Out West!

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Creating Org-mode TODOs on iOS with Drafts

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Our TDD Course Is Out!

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Searching Email from `mutt` on OS X

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Zeller’s Congruence

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Cambridge Summer Classic 5K

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OPLSS Flotsam

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The Mathematics of Lavender Wands

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Casual Static Analysis

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Skills to Retire On

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Chronological Snobbery

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Detecting Old Passwords with pass

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Folk Models of Home Computer Security

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Compilation as Search

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When is Literate Programming Appropriate?

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Getting Started with Org-mode

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Computer Science: Why Bother?

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Going to OPLSS 2016!

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λet’s Talk About Y

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Changing One Thing at a Time

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Switching to a Literate Emacs Configuration

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A Tool for Finding Primers

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Building the Ralph Gong

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Exploring Dired (plus a cheatsheet!)

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SquawkBox—Viral Avian Marketing

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Just a Reminder That `rlwrap` Exists

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sensible-defaults.el

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The Keyboard Post

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Naked Splats Pass Blocks

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Encrypting Email By Default with Mutt

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CAD Paper-reading Group Notes

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Burritos for the Hungry Mathematician

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Learning to Juggle

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Implementing Blueprint

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Beanbag Gopher

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Starting EmacsBoston!

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Christmas Tree Talk

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Generating Unique Tokens with Lazy Enumerators

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Voronoi Experiments

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Starting an Emacs Meetup

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La Vie Emoji

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EmacsConf 2015

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Building an Object System from Closures

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Thinking about Concurrency

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Datalog User Manual

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Back to Debian

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Moving to Boston

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Searching the Web with engine-mode

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Unity—It’s Pretty Neat!

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EmacsNYC Stickers

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An Introduction to Inodes

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Conferences Past and Future

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The Classical Code Reading Group of New York

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The Littlest Macro

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Composable and Compilable Macros

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Tips for Teaching

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Configuring gpg-agent on a Mac

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Automatically Signing Your Git Commits

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A Streetcar to Subduction

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Coming Down from the Clouds

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Teaching at RailsBridge

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Cookie Puss

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The Soylent Experiment

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Some Terrible Wonderful Films

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Interview with Sacha Chua

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Library of Emoji

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The Tyranny of Structurelessness

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Pigeon Photographers

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Switching from RVM to chruby

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Reading the CS Canon

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Waggle Dancing

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Defying the Queen Abroad

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The Crackpot Index

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Moving Off Feedburner

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Our First Pepper!

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Painlessly Installing Conkeror on Mac OS X

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engine-mode

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An Introduction to Emacs Lisp

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The New York Emacs Meetup

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Making Your Emacs Shell a Login Shell

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Opening Your Last Rails Migration in Emacs

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Even Glue-to-Glue?

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Some Simple LaTeX Project Templates

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The Many Names of the India-Bird

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Kilobytely

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Growing a Language

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Pet Names

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Golfing in Reverse

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Tractatus Logico-Org

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MIT Press Booksale

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Computing with Crabs

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Good Luck

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The Dragon King

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The QM2

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Learning Programming with Python

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The Bridge of Smoots

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Emac(s|k)

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Big week? Huge week.

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Flower X-Rays

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Ancient Greek Punishment

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100% Human Hair

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Let’s Build A Yurt

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Rudy on Rails

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George Plimpton’s Video Falconry

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Mazes & Labyrinths

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Yelping with Cormac

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Shady Characters

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Google+ Circles

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Goddammit

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Abandoned Yugoslav Monuments

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AlgoRhythmics

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Cephalophores

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Wind Knitting Factory

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Painting with WiFi

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Chess Music

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RFC 2324

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Tupper’s Self-Referential Formula

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Types of Screws

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Pay Your Taxes, Witches

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Memoization using Closures

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Regional Dialects

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Closures in Python

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Untranslatable Words

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Crab Canon Visualized

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Linear Chess

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Puzzle Time

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Beowulf in Old English

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Thoughts on Sapir-Whorf

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Gödel in Single Syllables

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Atlas of Remote Islands

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RIP Benoȋt Mandelbrot

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12 Byzantine Rulers

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Chess City

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The Original Gilgamesh

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Homemade Spacecraft

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History of Umami

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A Freudian Slip, Perhaps

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L’elephant triomphal

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Castro Loves Dolphins

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Caprice No. 24 in A Minor

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A Case for Careful QA

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Nixon In China

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Artisanal Pencil Sharpening

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A Mathematician’s Apology

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Nerd Problems

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Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour

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Solar Sailing

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The Veganomicon

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Bloomsday

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Fishy Scholarship

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arVix vs. snarXiv

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Afghanistan in the 1960s

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Finchley Central

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Socrates and Glaucon on the HSN

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English in Montreal

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Brontësaurus

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Rachmaninoff on Mars

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The Turbo-encabulator

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The Nietzsche Family Circus

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Numbers Are New

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Hamlet

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On Finishing Books

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Logicomix

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Strandbeests

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Math Ruins Everything

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d’Alembert’s Dream

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Chess Boxing

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Artificial Flight and Other Myths

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Apocalypse Pooh

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Drunken Bats

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Iron-Plated Snails

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Handmade Islands

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Honorary Vertebrates

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The Permanent Thunderstorm

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The Perfect Cup of Coffee

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Nomograms

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Undirected Deliciousness

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Re-thinking History

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Pre-Columbian Geoglyphs

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Hanger Tea

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Disrupting Urination Norms

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Dubai

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An Obfuscated Christmas

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Gävle Goat Burned Again

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Listening Devices

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What English Sounds Like

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Octopi Can Use Tools

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Behemoth

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Monkey Syntax

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Philosopheme

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A Vending Machine for Crows

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Yucca Mountain

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Lalochezia

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We Know You’re Out There, Spiderman

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Charles II

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The Nine Nations

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Interview with Umberto Eco

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The End of the World: A FAQ

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Way Better Than Warhol

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Sewing Machines

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The Evil Bit

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Teagami

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Nerd Love

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The Encyclopédie

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The Sokal Affair

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The Chomskybot

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Quines

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The Peony

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The Tao of Programming

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Sprachraum

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The Pseudodoxia Epidemica

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The Hofmeister Kink

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The Circular Ruins

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Pork Cake

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The Felicific Calculus

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Aeolopiles

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The Gävle Goat

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The Buffalo Bills

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The Incontinent Duck

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Joseph Palmer

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Lie Algebra Notes

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Mamihlapinatapai

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Emperor Norton

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Glottochronology

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A Refutation of Galileo

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A Thousand Cows

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The Mechanical Turk

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