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    by Noah Levenson
  • January 5, 2015
    The Creator of Truck Nutz On What Inspired His Invention
    by Katy Yeiser
  • April 10, 2014
    Let’s Make a Million Dollars!: A 20-Something Pitches Three Million-Dollar Ideas to an Older Businessman and In Doing So Sells Out His Generation
    by Allan Vol Phillips
  • February 14, 2014
    Let’s Make a Million Dollars!: Draft Catalog Copy for Five New Kinds of Sexy Underwear
    by Annie Wyman
  • November 12, 2013
    Alexander Graham Bell’s First Five Phone Calls
    by Jesse Eisenberg
  • September 4, 2007
    Patents I Have Sought, And Failed, To Obtain
    by Eric Feezell
  • January 13, 2006
    Dr. Phil’s Inventions
    by Scott Smith
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