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One More Way in Which Global Warming Can Kill You - Iceland shows how

Wolfgang of In Search of 42 has moved to the Daily Llama - did he find 42? Or 56 maybe?

Astroprof talks about Pulsar Planets - no, the other astroprof...

PP Cook joins in the You Tube wars with The Klein Four's rendition of Finite Simple Group of Order Two

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