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How do birds know how to build nests?

Mike Vandeman,

San Ramon, California, US

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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