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Polygon's staff couldn't agree on a single best strip, so the writer picked one and defended it: Nov. 11, 1995, and the line “We need to start putting prices on the priceless.” The case is that the strip's environmentalist streak is its most underdiscussed theme — Watterson's own annotations put Calvin's house right against the edge of a nature preserve — and that the rest of the culture needed 30 years to catch up to what three panels said in 1995.
Nassim Taleb made the Black Swan famous. But the man who actually proved the bell curve was lying had been ignored for forty years — and the cost fell on everyone but the people who built the models.