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Birders around the world are united by their passion for glass, by which I mean high-end optics. We crave ever more advanced binoculars, spurring...
Philosophy and I have always had a rather fraught relationship. I love grappling with big ideas, but dislike the tendency to extrapolate endless sky-bridges...
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