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Puzzle of October 20, 2009
“Poisson Paysage”, sculpture by Claude and François-Xavier LaLanne, on Park Avenue through Nov. 20th, 2009.
Credit: Jill Krementz.
Puzzle of October 17, 2009
This turned out to be a "get ready for Halloween" puzzle, because it creeped me out. A lot
Book of October 6, 2009
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.
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Chuck [...]
Puzzle of November 3, 2009
Spiralling eggward