Longtime readers of The Duck of Minerva are surely familiar with Dan Nexon's important work on Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago that hosts the Doomsday Global Seed Vault. Located on the island of Spitzbergen, the vault -- which is built into the side of a sandstone...
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If you're Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Yankee, the fact that Franklin Foer still has a job pretty much has you breathing into a paper bag several times an hour. But when he's not.