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“oh, it’s a strange magic”*…
A spell for identifying a thief: To find the thief write on a piece of kosher parchment these names [see words at the end of the spell], and hang them around the neck of a black rooster. Then circle...
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“I’d rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book”*…
Kieran Wright has been in Los Angeles for only three years but has fallen head over heels for his adopted hometown’s landmarks. The 28-year-old from New Zealand spent this spring and summer...
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“I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It’s...
Humans are the only species that can throw well enough to kill rivals and prey. Because throwing requires the highly coordinated and extraordinarily rapid movements of multiple body parts, there was...
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“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve...
Woodcut illustrations from Anianus’ Compotus cum commento (ca. 1492), an adaptation of Bede’s computus system — Source. Before humans stored memories as zeroes and ones, we turned to digital devices...
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“He, indeed, who gave fewest pledges to Fortune, has yet suffered her...
As Zachary Crockett explains, taking the kids to a baseball game, a movie, or Disneyland is a bigger financial commitment than it used to be for middle-class families… a much bigger commitment… In the...
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