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Harvard student solves knotty problem

Atlas Obscura reports on a Harvard economics major who figured out new meanings for khipus - the knotted strings used by the Inca for record keeping that had long eluded detailed understanding by scholars.

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"I'm a frayed knot"

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When people ask what the value of taking classes outside of ones major is, this is a good example of a success story. This student was outside of his normal wheelhouse and presumably those before him all fit a different mold... Presenting students with a wider range of knowledge creates situations like this on a daily basis, it is just not nearly as obvious.

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Don't leave children unsupervised in a yarn shop.

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