delanceyplace archive

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Daily Excerpt Subject
spain was the center of the world -- 8/31/15
j.r.r. tolkien's mother -- 8/28/15
treating psychopaths -- 8/27/15
the disposable razor blade -- 8/26/15
good king wenceslas -- 8/25/15
genetics are not as predictive as we might think -- 8/24/15
a brief history of the donut -- 8/21/15
diamonds are forever -- 8/20/15
the richest man who ever lived -- 8/19/15
an unexpected rise in autism cases -- 8/18/15
life in the ocean -- 8/17/15
earth is a pearlike, oblate-spheroidal hula hoop -- 8/14/15
sleep deprivation -- 8/13/15
the working habits of creative people -- 8/12/15
romans and christians -- 8/11/15
jules verne was never that interested in science -- 8/10/15
american banks versus british banks -- 8/7/15
bananas and foreign policy -- 8/06/15
plankton and our ability to breathe -- 8/5/15
math is the world's dominant language -- 8/4/15
the mongols conquer the world -- 8/03/15