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#SciAmBlogs Thursday - leprosy, cicadas, oreogeny, DNA patents, Chladni figures, and more.

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- Scicurious - A genetic history of leprosy

 

- John R. Platt - Climate Change versus Groundhogs: Even Common Species Will Suffer

 

- Kyle Hill - Reweaving the Rainbow: Cicadas, Science, and Creationism

 

- Amanda Ungco - A Persistent Case of Diabetes Mellitus in Guam

 

- Dana Hunter - Oreogeny! The Compleat Sequence

 

- Brian Malow - Chladni Figures: Amazing Resonance Experiment

 

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik - Illusion of the Week: JC Penney’s Hitler Teapot

 

- Alex Wild - Thrifty Thursday: the honeycomb, the flashlight, and the iPhone

 

- Eric R. Olson - Hypervelocity Stars, and More – The Countdown, Episode 24

 

- Bryan Bumgardner - Could Drones Make the Decision to Kill on Their Own? [Video]

 

- Dina Fine Maron - Supreme Court Rejects Patents on Two Naturally Occurring Genes

 

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