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Is it the Little Mermaid? The Virgin Mary? One of millions of teensy tiny little Martians that the rovers Spirit and Opportunity are rolling over and crushing every day?
No. No. And … need we say it? No.
Just to make sure, we mentioned the picture – which was taken in November by the rover Spirit’s panoramic [...]

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QB never realized how beautiful the inside of this cubicle is. Stuff like that comes into focus after spending a few days in conditions for which we’re not quite prepared.
We’re back, all 23 members of the AguaClara project team and guests, including yours truly, from deep in the heart of lovely Honduras. If you recall, [...]

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It’s difficult for QB to write this. This page won’t be blank for long, we suppose, but the words that fill it will barely break the surface tension. We’ll leave it to Joseph Conrad to sum up: “It is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence…” It’s impossible to convey [...]

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The Vietnam years at Cornell must have been a challenging time for “official” photographers. They were part of The Establishment — the authorities not to be trusted, and, QB recalls, often for good reason.
Photos taken by Cornell police of anti-war students occupying Carpenter Hall in spring 1972 (to protest defense-related research by the faculty) were [...]

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