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Interesting Words
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Country Up The Bumpkin
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Trump
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Regarding Birds
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RP App for Android
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Song of the Day
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What Are You Going To Do Today?
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Today in History
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Artificial Intelligence
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Democratic Party
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Outstanding Covers
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Great Old Songs You Rarely Hear Anymore
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A welcome from Poland
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The Global War on Terror
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Bob Dylan
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MIXES
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Block Artists
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Animal Resistance
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Drones
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France
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Stephenson's last book, Reamde, was fun and interesting but he ended it badly IMO. Absolutely worth reading for the first 90% of it but he telegraphs his own spoilers and the Hollywood end ... I just chewed my way through it. His new one, Seveneves, comes out next month, and I am looking a little squinty-eyed at it, too, but can't help getting giddy over reading the first 26 pages here. Warning: I will buy (or hope the library gets it) this immediately. If you're a science and word-geek* like me, you will be in line, too. *Stephenson does love to create new words or redefine old ones. Or imagine new or better etymologies for common words... a lot of times I think his imagined etymologies are probably closer to the truth than what's accepted in dictionaries. I wonder if he's gotten any dictionaries to change...
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