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Ice-cold eye candy: glaciers from space
via wired.com Another fine story from Wired Science. Posted via web from David Dobbs’s Somatic Marker
David Dobbs, author of the Kindle Single bestseller My Mother's Lover, writes features and essays for publications including the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Nature, and other publications. He is working on his fourth book, The Orchid and the Dandelion. You also follow his wider wanderings on ... Read More
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