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Chelsea Rathburn on the Unexpected Beauty of the “Research Dead-End”

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Earlier this summer, our geriatric air conditioner stopped working, bringing an abrupt end to a few years of never-quite-cold-enough temperatures and bafflingly-high electric bills. Our HVAC guy broke the bad news: the system required a total replacement, plus re-insulation of our attic, plus ductwork for an addition that had inexplicably never been connected to the central AC. That ductwork needed a way to travel from ou

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