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#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - moths, patients, justice, proteins, cancer complexity, and more.

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- Nortin M. Hadler - The Scientific Basis for Choosing to Be a Patient: Forearmed Is Forewarned

 

- Jag Bhalla - Justice Is in Our Nature

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Thanksgiving

 

- Karissa Milbury - Looking beyond the code: addressing the deep levels of complexity in cancer genetics

 

- Evelyn Lamb - Strumming the Lute of Pythagoras

 

- Laura Hough - Bringing War to the “Island of Peace” – The Fight for the Preservation of Jeju-do

 

- Gary Stix - Harvard’s Whitesides Gives Brilliant Critique of Mammoth U.S. Brain Project

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Q&A With Astrophysicist Mario Livio on Brilliant Blunders

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - A Pink Stellar Nursery and a Telescopic Birthday

 

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik - Illusion of the week: Which came first, the pig or the egg?

 

- Melissa C. Lott - Secretary of Energy sees a critical role for energy efficiency

 

- DNLee - Wordless Wednesday: Panyabukuu pup #DispatchesDNLee

 

- Kyle Hill - Could a Star Trek Villain Crush Your Skull? I Explain at Slate

 

- Christine Gorman - Getting Killed for Saving Lives

 

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