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- I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.
- Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is…
- All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times…
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