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		prionassembly on Oct 7, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The 'specialness spiral:' Why we label ordinary ob... Rarely does the special jar of mold photograph well. The light hits it in so many different ways. Also, we want to see the thing age. I feel the same about paper books. I kind of even regret that so many books come in non-yellowing paper now.

AnimalMuppet on Oct 7, 2021 | [–]

Your user name is kind of interesting in connection to your first paragraph...

alpaca128 on Oct 9, 2021 | [–]

This reminds me so much of The Milk at some university that a student many years ago left behind and has never been thrown away since then.

alt219 on Oct 9, 2021 | [–]

Some history of The Milk:

https://alum.mit.edu/slice/investigating-milk-mits-historic-...

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