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All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes

by Sue Black

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A Death of Innocents

by A.J. Orde

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Died in the Wool (Roderick Alleyn, #13)

by Ngaio Marsh

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“Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

tags: big-bang, universe

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“In 1487 alone, two hundred heretics had-in one of the greatest euphemisms in the history of language-"relaxed," that is, burned at the stake.

Dogs of God, Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors”
― James Reston

tags: religion

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“...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.”
― Richard Dawkins

tags: dissent, opinion, truth

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“..it sounded very good and very false at the same time, so that you had the feeling that even if was true, he was touching only on the very highest points and maybe embellishing those a little.”
― Bill Pronzini, The Vanished

tags: false, mystery, true

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