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August 14, 2026
What Mary Knew
A number two graduate students invented in 1994, a man who should have had thirty more years, and a girl who was given no details at all.
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The Answer Was Always 42 (And It Was Never 42)
I've been thinking about a number lately. 42. If you've read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, you know it. A supercomputer called Deep Thought spends 7.5 million years calculating the Answer to the Ultimate
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