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How the Ice Cube Lost Its Mystery

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Ice has gone from a mythological substance that captured the minds and imaginations of explorers and bartenders, to an everyday staple.

I’m isolated in my apartment in Portland, Maine, during a global pandemic. In my tumbler of rye whiskey there floats a large, square ice cube.

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