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Puzzle of November 3, 2009

Spiralling eggward

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Anglerfish ovary, 4 times life-size.
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Puzzle of October 26, 2009

Hide and seek in the lotus pond

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A “peasant painting” from Fengjing, a suburb of Shanghai. These developed out of regional folk art and craft tradtions, but have become a local industry in recent decades. Source: Boxing Dragons.
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Puzzle of October 20, 2009

Park Avenue Fish

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“Poisson Paysage”, sculpture by Claude and François-Xavier LaLanne, on Park Avenue through Nov. 20th, 2009. Credit: Jill Krementz.
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Puzzle of October 17, 2009

Feeding frenzy

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This turned out to be a "get ready for Halloween" puzzle, because it creeped me out. A lot
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Book of October 6, 2009

Your Inner Fish, by Neil Shubin

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A brisk tour of evolution from fish to mammal, especially our limbs and heads, with sidelights on how to cut up human bodies and how to find fossils: Chuck and I would look at the same patch of ground. I saw nothing but rock–barren desert floor. Chuck saw fossil teeth, jaws, and even chunks of skull. … Chuck [...]
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