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The Slice archive for Feb. 8, 2012

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8, 2012


Confounding scientists of the future 

I once threw a rock that had come from the New England coastline into Puget Sound. Let some geologist eons from now figure that one out. "Clearly those two ancient seas, the Atlantic and the Pacific, merged at some point." (By the way, I carefully…

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Deconstructing grade school humor 

I had a friend at East Elementary School named Rob Campbell. He made me laugh. Once, during a lively round of riffing on advertising slogans out by the monkey bars, he came up with something I regarded as hilarious. You might recall Madison Avenue's line,…

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