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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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The Oops, Becomes Mesmerizing Issue

A lab at the university of california in Santa Barbara has an unusual assembly line process. Grad students scrape gunk off a plastic fish net stocking and then rinse it, hang it dry, and then they bawl it back up again. This odd procedure is central to researching ocean plankdon over the last decades.

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