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#SciAmBlogs Thursday - new nuclear reactors, The Dune, Bohr model, hornbill bills, singing mice, and more.

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- Maria Konnikova - How a Book about the Future Inspired Me to Look into the Neural Underpinnings of the Past

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Don’t Be Dissin’ the Bohr Model!

 

- John R. Platt - Artificial Beaks Helping to Save Hornbills from Extinction in India

 

- Jason G. Goldman - An Archival Treasure: Singing Mice

 

- Glendon Mellow - Cyanobacteria to Solve the Theory of Everything

 

- Alex Wild - If you’ve ever wondered whether to take the Daily Mail seriously as a news source…andThrifty Thursday: The Liquid Lens

 

- Krystal D'Costa - Editor’s Selections: Family Medical Histories, A Grave In The Bahamas, Medieval Malaria, And Macaques

 

- Larry Greenemeier - A ‘Deceptive Individual’: Steve Jobs’s FBI File

 

- Fred Guterl - Best Science Song of All Time, Verse 2

 

- Katherine Harmon - Smoke and Mirrors: Driving While on Marijuana Doubles One’s Chances of a Serious Car Crash

 

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