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Goodnight, Linnaeus: Bathtub Systematics and the Nature of Scientific Curiosity, Part I

150 million years ago in what is now the North American West, mighty diplodocus thundered across the terrain, stripping leaves from branches with its peg-like teeth and lashing away pests and predators with the 80-some vertebrae of its whip-like tail. They were magnificent creatures, as long as three school buses each. And for nearly a […]

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