Today, the city of Farmington, Maine, honors the inventor of earmuffs.

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teh antropologist john hawks wirites

Brain size is under stabilizing selection, and both energetic and ontogenetic demands favor smaller ones.

im ahjead of teh curve again.

p.s. he alslso says 'extraordinary claims require more than one brain'. oh boy do they ever!

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Indeed not.

Welcome to 1978. Those of you who are too young to remember those days may not realize how ordinary and unremarkable these events were, in that long-vanished age. People like this, they were your neighbors or the cop on the beat. We had come so far, but then, somehow, we lost our way.

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Abandoned semi-trailer by the roadside, Washington County, Maine. Click to enlarge:

Consider it done!

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You're like a picture on a fridge
That's never stocked with food.

What? What the hell kind of bullshit is that? It's meaningless!

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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Colossus of Tulsa:

Libations to the left, hecatombs to the right. Thank you for your patronage. Please call again.

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