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Daily Excerpt Subject
the empty universe -- 12/31/18
a definition of blockchain -- 1/02/19
the earth plows through tons of meteors each day -- 12/28/18
the planet mercury and wednesday -- 12/27/18
what zero gravity is like -- 12/26/18
jupiter is a failed star -- 12/24/18
the origins of poker -- 12/21/18
regression analysis -- 12/20/18
cell phones, the congo, and millions of deaths -- 12/19/18
the wives and children of soldiers -- 12/18/18
j.p. morgan puts electric lights in his home -- 12/17/18
the earliest days of hollywood and drug addictions -- 12/14/18
cicero -- 12/13/18
humans, megafauna, and the frequency of fires -- 12/12/18
Notable Books We Read in 2018
there was neither chocolate nor tobacco in europe -- 12/11/18
america's early mass media demagogues -- 12/10/18
1953 and sunday evening's wonderful world of disney -- 12/7/18
wine tasted like paint stripper -- 12/6/18
the saturn five had eight million moving parts -- 12/5/18
karl marx loses four children -- 12/04/18
"i wouldn't want to wake up next to a lady pipefitter" -- 12/3/18