Brick

DATELINE MIRTHOLOGY — You expect gov­ern­ment to be naive some­times, but some promi­nent research uni­ver­si­ties — that’s you, Cor­nell — treat ani­mals like bird­brains. This week, they for­mally gave up on find­ing the ivory-billed wood­pecker. This was reported in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, which for a half-decade has kept a spe­cial projects team just for hard-hitting …

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