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The iPhone was first launched in 2007, and the Notes app has been a part of it since the beginning. I imagine it was first used purely as a legitimate, no-frills notebook — passwords, addresses, what-have-you — and my own has a bit of that too, of course. To-do lists, gift ideas for friends’ birthdays,…

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The first time I heard about lampenflora, we were walking through Aillwee Cave in County Clare—and it was growing, quiet and sure, beneath a fluorescent wall-lamp. It’s not supposed to be there, the guide explained. But it grows wherever it can. It’s a simple equation: artificial light plus sufficient moisture. The result is a German…

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