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How do birds know how to build nests?
Mike Vandeman,
San Ramon, California, US
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Our eyes receive a two-dimensional image but our brains build a three-dimensional one. Could two three-dimensional images create a four-dimensional one, ad infinitum?
Hillary Shaw,
Newport, Shropshire, UK
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