We begin to get used to flood-caused Internet outages, but those bits of merfolknet that end up in search engine caches each time puzzle us

This Simple Philosophical Puzzle Shows How Difficult It Is to Know Something - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus http://nautil.us/blog/-this-simple-philosophical-puzzle-shows-how-difficult-it-is-to-know-something

Oliver Stone’s Putin puzzle: An evil genius who made history, or a shrewd, small-minded nonentity? - Salon.com http://www.salon.com/2017/06/17/oliver-stone-deconstructs-putin-an-evil-genius-who-made-history-or-a-shrewd-but-small-minded-apparatchik-writ-large/?curator=MediaREDEF

A puzzle has been solved. Dormant connections light up, sparks fly, the mixture touches off. A new world blooms into being explosively.

While we puzzle together Earth’s fake history and struggle with the Fermi paradox, they watch from afar and howl with inaudible laughter.