Wonderous Worlds of Words (Page 6)

Older Than the Aztecs

Students were being taught at Oxford by 1096. The Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, wasn’t founded until 1325. Oxford had been assigning homework

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Denouement

The untangling after the climax.

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The Bill of Flights

Ten Amendments to the National Bird Situation, As Ratified by One Barn Owl Who Has Had Enough

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The Benevolent Coup

A Manifesto for Hostile Peacemaking, Unsolicited Kindness, and the Overthrow of Everything That Makes Us Terrible

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The Tomato Doctrine

A Comprehensive Framework for the Resolution of Armed Conflict Through Produce, Percussion, and Whose Grandmother Makes the Better Stew

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The Declaration, Read Aloud

We the Creatures · Prologue

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Gentlemen Do Not Dig

Everything You Slept Through in History Class — Season One, Episode 01

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Property Law

Five seconds: how long a dropped cookie is legally yours. Six seconds: it belongs to the dog.

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Three Hearts

An octopus has three hearts and blue blood. One of those hearts stops beating when it swims, which may be why octopuses

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Epiphany

A sudden moment of clear understanding.

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Over the Mountain

A Dead Track, a Grudge, and a Major’s Last Stand

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Rupert the Murderous Robotic Pool Cleaner: Part One

Part One of Two

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The Return

Season One — Episode 01

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Peace and Tranquility Gone

Season One — Episode 01

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Time and Light

A poem

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Color and Light

A poem

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Spent, Never Saved

A poem

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The Evil We Do

A poem

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Aloha Friday

Hawaiian Shirts, Operation Liberation, and the Rebellion You’re Allowed to Have

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A Tee That Grows Back

Golf Tees Made of Grass Seed, and Other Ideas Too Simple for Capitalism

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