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    The Year of the Flood

    Margaret Atwood

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Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

bbraasch, July 6, 2007

This book is on the summer reading list at a radio program called Philosophy Talk. http://www.philosophytalk.org

I heard the show on kwmr.org and followed the show's link here to get the book.

Time to get some new philosophy jokes! Time to put away the physics joke about being positive, having lost an electron. The kids are finishing it for me.
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