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That article about plants killing the dinosaurs is super sketch:
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"IEE also does not publish papers based primarily on mathematical/quantitative modeling."
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I'm not surprised. The article had a kind of "thought experiment" vibe.
ReplyDeleteThe letter I find interesting is the printed letter 'a' with an arc over the top, which is not how anyone writes it. Just about the only font that prints it the way we write it is Comic Sans.
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