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Friday Weird Science is up at Neurotic Physiology, where I'm doing a book review this week on Dirty Minds, the new book by Kayt Sukel. TL:DR? I liked it, and you probably will too! Check it out, and put it in the stockings of your friends who read crappy books on relationship advice. They'll never pick up "He's just not that into you" again.