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gippgig

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Feb 21, 2019, 11:27:57 PM2/21/19
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Why do zebras have stripes?
www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/zebra-stripes-confuse-biting-flies-causing-them-abort-their-landings
Now, would this work for humans? Tattoo parlors take note.

gippgig

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Jun 13, 2019, 8:36:19 PM6/13/19
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Kyle Mulka

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Jun 14, 2019, 12:25:03 AM6/14/19
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Who are you? These mailing list posts are weird. 


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Brian Madonna

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Jun 14, 2019, 12:26:25 AM6/14/19
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Someone with ADHD or someshit LOL. 

Bobby Baum

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Jun 14, 2019, 12:46:01 AM6/14/19
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Bobby

Alberto Gaitan

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Jun 14, 2019, 7:42:54 AM6/14/19
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Brian & Kyle,

Please be respectful of others. If you ever post to Blabber, I hope it will be 50% as informative as Bobby's posts. Shine on, Bobby!

Respectfully,
Alberto

Karen Shunk

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Jun 14, 2019, 9:06:41 AM6/14/19
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Thank you Alberto – agreed.

 

Bobby has done a lot to help organize the physical space and is a passionate lover of all things science. Anyone who has been to HacDC on Monday or Thursday has almost certainly met him.

 

Thanks for this opportunity to give a shout out,

Karen

Kyle Mulka

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Jun 14, 2019, 6:04:06 PM6/14/19
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Thanks for clarifying, everyone. Didn’t mean to be disrespectful. Sorry about that. Bobby’s name wasn’t on the original emails I was looking at so wasn’t sure who it was. They had a link and a very small amount of text. Thought it might be a spam bot. Wasn’t sure what vampire finches had to do with HacDC. 

-Kyle

Alberto Gaitan

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Jun 14, 2019, 6:24:38 PM6/14/19
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Thanks for the note, Kyle!

And as for vampire finches, as Karen put it, Bobby (like many of us) "is passionate lover of all things science." So birds which have coevolved with gut microflora a way to wring nutrition from blood meals qualifies as fascinating. ;-)

Bobby Baum

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Jun 17, 2019, 8:40:52 PM6/17/19
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Don't discourage people from speaking freely about me just because you
think it might be disrespectful - especially when it's true (I am
hyperactive)!
Bobby

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Aug 27, 2019, 12:35:14 AM8/27/19
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Dec 16, 2019, 7:23:13 PM12/16/19
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Hobbyists are saving endangered fish: www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/4/4/49

gippgig

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Peter James

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Dec 23, 2019, 9:56:02 PM12/23/19
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Dec 29, 2019, 1:38:16 AM12/29/19
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gippgig

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Dec 30, 2019, 11:58:26 PM12/30/19
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...and how ants avoid traffic jams:

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gippgig

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Jan 23, 2020, 6:26:31 PM1/23/20
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Karen Shunk

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Jan 23, 2020, 6:46:25 PM1/23/20
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TL:dr So will this predict if I will die within 15 years, or will it be able to predict within 15 years whether I will die?

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gippgig

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Feb 27, 2020, 6:16:18 PM2/27/20
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gippgig

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May 14, 2020, 4:04:22 AM5/14/20
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A molecular drill:
Action of a minimal contractile bactericidal nanomachine
Nature Vol. 580 issue 7805 p.658 doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2186-z (not open access)

gippgig

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May 16, 2020, 3:27:17 AM5/16/20
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gippgig

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Aug 21, 2020, 3:41:00 AM8/21/20
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Conductive bacterial cables: www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/electric-mud-teems-new-mysterious-bacteria

gippgig

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Sep 20, 2020, 4:05:25 AM9/20/20
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...and it's open source

gippgig

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Sep 30, 2020, 3:10:58 AM9/30/20
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A human X chromosome has been sequenced from telomere (terminal repeat)-to-telomere. That may not sound new, since the human genome sequence was announced nearly 2 decades ago, but it still contains lots of gaps, particularly in troublesome repetitive regions.  More technical advances are required to truly finish the human genome (note that every human genome is different).
Nature Vol. 585 No. 7823 p. 79   doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2547-7

gippgig

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Oct 21, 2020, 2:57:50 PM10/21/20
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www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/wacky-tube-men-could-keep-dingoes-away-livestock-australia

gippgig

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Oct 23, 2020, 2:55:31 PM10/23/20
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www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/even-car-can-t-kill-beetle-here-s-why

gippgig

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Jan 12, 2021, 8:40:16 PM1/12/21
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www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/guam-s-invasive-tree-snakes-loop-themselves-lassos-reach-their-feathered-prey

gippgig

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Jan 21, 2021, 7:08:36 PM1/21/21
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www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/why-cats-are-crazy-catnip

gippgig

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Jan 29, 2021, 6:35:12 PM1/29/21
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www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/how-do-wombats-poop-cubes-scientists-get-bottom-mystery

gippgig

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Feb 20, 2021, 3:40:41 AM2/20/21
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Shocking discovery: Social predation in electric eels
Ecology and Evolution Vol. 11 Issue 3 p. 1088 doi: 10.1002/ece3.7121

gippgig

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Mar 9, 2021, 11:56:55 PM3/9/21
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www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/sea-slug-cut-its-own-head-and-lived-tell-tale

gippgig

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Mar 21, 2021, 2:05:11 AM3/21/21
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Computer code comprehension shares neural resources with formal logical inference in the fronto-parietal network
eLife 2020 9 e59340   doi: 10.7554/eLife.59340
Comprehension of computer code relies primarily on domain-general executive brain regions
eLife 2020 9 e58906   doi: 10.7554/eLife.58906

gippgig

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Mar 28, 2021, 10:43:48 PM3/28/21
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sciencebasedmedicine.org/did-microwaves-harm-us-employees-at-its-embassy-in-havana/

gippgig

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Apr 3, 2021, 6:33:30 PM4/3/21
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Open source drug development:
www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/software-engineer-bets-technology-help-speed-rare-disease-treatments

gippgig

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Jul 11, 2021, 3:51:01 AM7/11/21
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www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/dark-wings-supercharge-seabird-flight

gippgig

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Jul 22, 2021, 4:30:41 AM7/22/21
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www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/dna-pulled-thin-air-identifies-nearby-animals

andrew gillette

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Jul 22, 2021, 10:00:39 AM7/22/21
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From the article:
The use of the term "eDNA" is cringe.

Otherwise, it's interesting that Genome processing has become sufficiently cheap for this approach.

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www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/dna-pulled-thin-air-identifies-nearby-animals

gippgig

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Aug 11, 2021, 4:14:22 AM8/11/21
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www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/meat-eating-plant-only-part-time-killer
www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/new-poo-new-you-fecal-transplants-reverse-signs-brain-aging-mice

gippgig

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Aug 17, 2021, 9:34:59 PM8/17/21
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A complete telomere-to-telomere human genome sequence (no Y chromosome and haploid but still complete): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.26.445798v1.full.pdf

gippgig

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Sep 14, 2021, 11:19:13 PM9/14/21
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www.science.org/content/article/barnyard-breakthrough-researchers-successfully-potty-train-cows

gippgig

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Sep 20, 2021, 10:15:04 PM9/20/21
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Bird-eating centipedes: Arthropod Predation of Vertebrates Structures Trophic Dynamics in Island Ecosystems
The American Naturalist   doi.org/gq3h

gippgig

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Sep 22, 2021, 8:39:07 PM9/22/21
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It would be very interesting to locate persons who have lost that Alu element.

gippgig

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Oct 15, 2021, 10:44:03 PM10/15/21
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Seychelles giant tortoises hunt:
Current Biology Vol. 31 issue 16 p. R989   doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.088

gippgig

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Dec 14, 2021, 1:01:27 AM12/14/21
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www.science.org/content/article/edison-was-right-waking-right-after-drifting-sleep-can-boost-creativity

gippgig

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Dec 18, 2021, 12:22:22 AM12/18/21
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www.science.org/content/article/our-earliest-half-alive-ancestor-needed-little-boost-heat

gippgig

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Dec 30, 2021, 3:55:12 AM12/30/21
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An Approach to the De Novo Synthesis of Life
pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00534

gippgig

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Mar 11, 2022, 3:46:55 AM3/11/22
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www.science.org/content/article/bringing-back-woolly-mammoth-and-other-extinct-creatures-may-be-impossible

gippgig

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Oct 8, 2022, 3:18:24 PM10/8/22
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www.science.org/content/article/powerful-physics-tool-could-help-scientists-understand-complex-ecosystems

gippgig

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Oct 19, 2022, 5:20:21 PM10/19/22
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Not sure whether to put this under biology or physics:
Experimental indications of non-classical brain functions

gippgig

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Jan 9, 2023, 4:41:33 AM1/9/23
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www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/08/11/how-thinking-hard-makes-the-brain-tired

gippgig

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Jan 14, 2023, 5:52:49 PM1/14/23
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www.science.org/content/article/two-research-teams-reverse-signs-aging-mice

gippgig

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Feb 5, 2023, 12:31:34 AM2/5/23
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www.science.org/content/article/dolphins-and-humans-team-catch-fish-brazil

gippgig

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Mar 8, 2023, 6:33:06 PM3/8/23
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www.science.org/content/article/ai-re-creates-what-people-see-reading-their-brain-scans

gippgig

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Apr 26, 2023, 3:28:58 PM4/26/23
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www.science.org/content/article/game-changer-method-lets-scientists-peer-and-fly-through-mouse-bodies

gippgig

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May 12, 2023, 6:32:22 PM5/12/23
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Am & Cm can support growth of some bacteria: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202303669

gippgig

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May 25, 2023, 7:42:42 PM5/25/23
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www.science.org/content/article/game-changer-scientists-are-genetically-engineering-crops-clone-themselves

gippgig

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Jun 7, 2023, 9:06:32 PM6/7/23
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If this pans out (awful big if) it might lead to a pill that boosts learning:

gippgig

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Jul 19, 2023, 3:00:59 AM7/19/23
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www.science.org/content/article/search-neural-basis-consciousness-yields-first-results

gippgig

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Aug 24, 2023, 4:04:01 PM8/24/23
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www.science.org/content/article/most-troublesome-chromosome-gets-new-respect-after-full-sequence

gippgig

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Sep 7, 2023, 4:44:00 PM9/7/23
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www.science.org/content/article/beetle-grows-termite-back-steal-food

gippgig

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Oct 4, 2023, 7:34:37 PM10/4/23
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www.science.org/content/article/how-do-cats-purr-new-finding-challenges-long-held-assumptions

gippgig

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Nov 1, 2023, 4:45:43 PM11/1/23
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Harvesting of aerial humidity with natural hygroscopic salt excretions

gippgig

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Nov 7, 2023, 1:02:13 AM11/7/23
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Multi-pass, single-molecule nanopore reading of long protein strands with single-amino acid sensitivity

gippgig

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Nov 19, 2023, 12:38:55 AM11/19/23
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Window into the mind: Advanced hand-held spectroscopic eye-safe technology for point-of-care neurodiagnostic

gippgig

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Dec 2, 2023, 3:18:19 PM12/2/23
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Pitcher plant produces nerve gas-like compound:

gippgig

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Dec 11, 2023, 4:38:39 PM12/11/23
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Needle-free ultrasound vaccine delivery

gippgig

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Dec 25, 2023, 2:53:36 PM12/25/23
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Not so smart? "Smart" drugs increase the level but decrease the quality of cognitive effort

gippgig

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Jan 24, 2024, 2:28:33 AMJan 24
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undark.org/2024/01/22/science-search-rescue/

gippgig

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Feb 1, 2024, 3:25:35 AMFeb 1
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www.science.org/content/article/fly-enters-virtual-reality-chamber-and-insect-science-may-never-be-same

gippgig

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Mar 16, 2024, 8:17:57 PMMar 16
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www.science.org/content/article/watch-out-colorful-bird-raises-nest-cannibals

gippgig

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Apr 12, 2024, 5:50:02 PMApr 12
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First nitrogen-fixing eukaryote: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8571

Matt Stafford

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Apr 12, 2024, 5:54:03 PMApr 12
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I was just listening to this as a podcast, too.



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First nitrogen-fixing eukaryote: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8571

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www.science.org/content/article/young-toads-are-teaching-australian-lizards-to-avoid-deadly-snacks
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