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Episode 180: Tracks

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The Story of Minan Talbot

Minan talbot loved a gravel pit. She built the school's own significant collection of dinosaur tracts and invertebrate fossils and minerals. Built it by hand, dig by dig, year after year. One day in the spring of 19 ten, she was walking to campus with her sister, a philosophy professor herself. They were cutting through the fields of a neighbouring farm when they became taken with a sweet little hill up the way. So they headed off through the grass to check out the view from up there. But when they approached the hilltop, they were surprised to find there wasn't a nice level plateau upon which they could place their future home. Instead, it sheered off on

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