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#SciAmBlogs Thursday - Thalidomide, coral guards, tool-using cockatoo, carnivorous harp sponge, last Ethiopian wolves, and more.

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- Judy Stone - From the Holocaust to Thalidomide: A Nazi Legacy

 

- Christie Wilcox - Coral Recruits Goby Bodyguards Against Seaweed Assassins


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- Jason G. Goldman - Clever Captive Cockatoo Creates Tool, A First For His Species

 

- Becky Crew - New carnivorous harp sponge discovered in deep-sea

 

- John R. Platt - Last 500 Ethiopian Wolves Endangered by Lack of Genetic Diversity

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Occam, me and a conformational medley

 

- Stuart Firestein - Jail for Ignorance

 

- Melissa C. Lott - The Energy Opportunity in Wasted Heat

 

- Dana Hunter - Interlude: “Lateral Blasts of Great Force”

 

- Kate Clancy - The Ladybusiness Lab is Hiring

 

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