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The Octopus Files: February, 2011

Currently, the typical American high school student has the TI-8* calculator so tightly wedged in her hand that it borders on qualifying as a piece of biotechnology.
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Andrew Octopus: The Octopus Files, January 2009

It was early enough in the  presidency of Paris Hilton that you still mostly saw petroleum-based cars on the roads. Still, the solar cells and...
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Andrew Octopus: The Octopus Files, December 08

Weyl wrote several important books about abstract algebra; My current study is algebraic topology....
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Andrew Octopus: The Octopus Files, November 08

My fellow Americans, I am happy to accept your nomination…wait, no. ...
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