
Searching for Order in the Universe
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What Was Gained and Lost in San Francisco?
The 19 o six earthquake in san francisco destroyed a whole lot of the fish collection. The curator in charge of things afterwards invented this technique of tying labels directly to the specimen. And so i think, in a weird way, any time this guy is hit with tragedy or destruction, it's almost always a moment of innovation. So you had pinned kind of an idea on him, an idea of hope and inspiration. He's so complicated in certain ways.
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