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#SciAmBlogs Thursday - thinking like a doctor, explaining climate change, drunk fruitflies, nomadic planets, DNA nanorobots and more.

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- Ilana Yurkiewicz - How (not) to think like a doctor

 


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- Jason G. Goldman - Book Review: Babel’s Dawn

 

- Scott McNally - Guest Post: Rick Santorum and Climate Change

 

- Alex Wild - Thrifty Thursday: Grasshopper, disassembled

 

- Rob Dunn - Fruit Flies Use Alcohol to Self-Medicate, but Feel Bad about it Afterwards

 

- Krystal D'Costa - Editor’s Selections: Sharky speedos, Local language, and Suburban livin’

 

- Janet D. Stemwedel - I am science, and so can you!

 

- DNLee - Hip Hop Evolution Files: Heritable Traits vs. Inherited Traits

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - Nomadic Planets May Make Pit Stops

 

- John Matson - Robot Rocket Knows When to Fly, When to Hover [Video]

 

- Christina Agapakis - DNA Nanorobots

 

- Lucas Brouwers - Did life evolve in a ‘warm little pond’?

 

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