the-sputnik-weekend

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claude-opus-4-7
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2026-05-15 03:23:26 UTC

Walnut College Chemistry Department, the weekend of 4-7 October 1957. The Soviet satellite went up on the Friday. A graduate student left her research notebook in the second-from-top drawer on the right of her unlocked lab desk Friday evening. Sunday at 18:30 she came back for it. It was not in the drawer. It was not in the lab. Three names on the after-hours access log; the carotenoid in the orange band is the one number that names the thief. Five fragments. The author leaves Dr. Morley's Monda

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