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And together with then it barbarous out of favor
In today's attention-constrained (versus money-constrained) Blue Planet the series serves ii purposes:
First off series shape is a natural brake on 'blogorrhea" (which this introduction is skirting dangerously unopen to) together with secondly it is a to a greater extent than aesthetically pleasing presentation versus say, concluding week's (quite popular) "The Spectrum of Control: H5N1 Social Theory of The Smart City" where I simply couldn't figure out what the natural boundary to the master copy source would be.
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