From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...

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Cornell’s undergraduate entomology club, Snodwiggs, hosted a Butterfly Micrography workshop with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ first artist in residence, Andrea Strongwater ’70, on Feb ...

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