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The Ancients Went Up Hills To Explore The Unknown. Now Everything Has Been Found So We Blog.

A tale as old as time.

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Ben Dreyfuss
Aug 13, 2024
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(Dear readers, I originally sent this in 2023, but as I said in the footnotes at the time, “this entire post was originally supposed to be the lede into an entirely different post—if I told you what I was intending to write about when I opened my laptop this afternoon, you wouldn’t believe me—but things got out of hand.” It took me a year to actually wr…

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