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Browsing NPR's site today, I found a blog named 13.7 Cosmos And Culture. I'll be reading this blog. Intrigued, I searched "13.7." It's the estimated age of our universe. Then I searched "prestate" a word used in Stuart Kauffman's blog about co-evolving civilizations. The first definition (sponsored link?) was Merriam-Webster online. It's not usually my first choice because it doesn't offer audio pronunciation, synonyms or the like. But I was lazy, and clicked.

Merriam-Webster Online reads:

prestate, it turns out, isn't in the free Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, where you just searched.

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And while I was aghast, pinned to this monetization of words, there was a commercial for Toyota playing on the sidebar.