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Pub Quiz
Edition #165 daysParis · New Year’s Eve
The Holocene Pub Quiz
First edition, and it’s New Year’s Eve. A Paris cellar, cocktails on me, teams, twelve thousand years of questions. At midnight the room turns 12027.
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The letter
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The Residency
Twelve pioneers, one week on the Moroccan coast. Deep work on the Human Era by day, the Atlantic by evening. Not open yet.