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- Rob Dunn - What If God Were a Maggot

 

- David L. Levine - The Newtown Shootings – The View from 300.01


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- Jason G. Goldman - Is Orangutan Culture Made of Ideas?

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Chemistry and Biology: Kuhnian or Galisonian?

 

- Dana Hunter - What’s So Unusual About Tolbachik’s Eruption? Um… Actually…

 

- Gary Stix - Gun Control: Searching Down Under for Change to Believe In

 

- Jennifer Frazer - The Dark Bacillus Crystal

 

- Psi Wavefunction - Nuclear structure — in DIC!

 

- Cassie Rodenberg - Takeesha: Crack, Heroin and Alcohol in Action

 

- John Horgan - Psychedelic Prophet of 2012 Doom Was Goofing! But For a Good Reason

 

- Darren Naish - All Yesterdays: the talks!

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Introducing: Alison Schumacher

 

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Science Writer, How Do You Take Notes?

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Baker’s Dozen: Sampling the Best Science Books of 2012

 

- Bora Zivkovic - ABATC-2012 Year in Review

 

- Daisy Yuhas - Patients Reflect on Life With a Common Brain Malformation

 

- John Matson - California Meteor Broke Speed Record for Atmospheric Entry

 

- Katherine Harmon - Shootings May Threaten Global Polio Eradication Effort

 

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