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SYSK Choice: The Evolution of Counting & Our Obsession With the Unexplained

Something You Should Know

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Is There a Monster at the Edge of the Map?

The mediaeval conception of the world is being replaced by a better understanding of animal biology andtaxonomy. The monsters that used to define the edge of the map have all been dispelled and, ah, you know, classified. And it's almost as though, even knowing that that stuff was false and inaccurate, we need that kind of sense of some frontier or some kind of edge,. on the other side of the edge is something mysterious and strange.

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