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By razib on June 24, 2009.

Geoscience enrollments up; supply lags demand

Brazilian Megafauna: hard to hunt or to chew?

What's wrong with Steve Jobs, revisited

Dinosaurs provide clues about the shrunken genomes of birds

Influenza season, part 2

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