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Putting a small numbered band on the leg of a bird helps scientists tell which bird is which.

Ellen O’Brian hadn’t bought a candy-filled advent calendar in years, but when she saw the festive cardboard box with little numbered panels in her local natural foods store, she couldn’t resist.

Members were called at random to approach a polished wooden box holding numbered chips that determined the order in which they would get to choose an available office suite.

"Trump's statement is an eerie replica of psychological manipulations made by abusers after episodes of abuse," she began, breaking it down in a series of 15 numbered tweets, starting thus:

A board was spangled with Polaroids of its members, who numbered more than two dozen as of October.