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The Day the Heads Went Missing.

Posted on July 27, 2017 by William
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Posted in Levity | Tagged Book of Mormon, cabbie, East Village, Eye and Ear Infirmary, FedEx, Hogwarts, homeless, Jesuits, junkie, junkies, Lower East Side, Ninth Precinct, St Mark's Place, Stage Diner, stereo, Tompkins Square Park, trickle down economics, Veselka | Leave a reply

In What Distant Deeps or Skies

Posted on July 26, 2017 by William
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Posted in Great Books | Tagged Auguries of Innocence, Illuminated books, Songs of Experience, Songs of Innocence, Tyger, William Blake | Leave a reply

When science was fun.

Posted on July 24, 2017 by William
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Posted in Great Books, Health and Science | Tagged An inordinate fondness for beetles, artist, astronomer, astronomy, balloonist, Captain Cook, Caroline Hershel, comets, Endeavor, Frankenstein, Haldane, Hershel, Joseph Banks, King George, Mary Shelley, musician, Richard holmes, science, scientist, stars, telescope maker, The age of wonder, William Hershel | Leave a reply

Most beautiful science book ever.

Posted on July 20, 2017 by William
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Posted in Great Books, Health and Science | Tagged Dinosaur, evolution, extinction, Fossils, horsehoe crab, living fossil, Niles Eldredge, punctuated equilibrium, science, Stephen Jay Gould, trilobite | Leave a reply

You can take the A train, only if you absolutely have to.

Posted on July 19, 2017 by William
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Posted in Great Books, Levity | Tagged A train, Broad Channel, broken glass, drugs, Far Rock, graffiti, guns, Hell on Wheels, knives, Koch, lawlessness, MTA, philosophy, physics, racial tension, reef, subway, Willy Spiller | 1 Reply

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