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"I will read all these terrible books so you don't have to. It's my latest attempt to transform the stupid, pointless shit I do in my free time into the stupid, pointless shit I am obligated do for my job."
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A guide to the essential work of everyone's favorite cranky comics auteur.
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"[I]t is likely that the [1937] gravitational wave paper was Einstein's first encounter with the anonymous peer-review system practiced in American journals at the time."
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"If you want the real comforting fiction, though, it lies at the bottom of Dawkins' enterprise."
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