We are not responsible for what happens next

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"O.K., let's slowly lower in the grant money."

Todd Bearson

Arlington, Mass.



This cartoon in the latest New Yorker gave me a (cynical) guffaw this morning. Nice caption, Todd Bearson. . . do you work in science? ;)

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