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then again

Sunday 18 March 2007 | I like a cookie

The scolopendrae in Arizona aren’t nearly this big. Nor have they neon-blue legs (unrepresentative photograph merely to scare you). “Picture a creature eight inches long, half an inch wide, with the speed and moves of an NFL running back, and a great big fork on its hind end whose contact feels like you just stuck [...]

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staring at the closed door

Sunday 18 March 2007 | I like a cookie

The good news—the great news—is, they offered us $14,382 a year to come be a PhD student at their university on a tropical island. And the bad news is, one slobbery black Lab and one small black fluffy felid and one slender average-height blue-eyed brunette alco-Celtic Brujo might not come along. I’ve been reeling from [...]

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