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There’s an optical illusion that went viral a few years ago, an illustration from a nineteenth-century German humor magazine. From one angle, the drawing looks like a duck; ...

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FEATUREs: Originally from Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi, and Urdu Definition in the Oxford English Dictionary: “a flexible approach to problem-solving that uses ...

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