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By mikethemadbiologist on June 5, 2010.

It's a muggy Saturday here. Lots of time to read links. Science:

MIT Team Designs Airliner That Uses 70 Percent Less Fuel
The Orangutan and the Hound
Less attractive fish have 'better sperm'
Just How Bad Is Porn, Anyway?
A Sad Day for Sustainable Shrimp
USDA forecasts a plague of grasshoppers for 2010
Joe Mercola and raw milk faddism invade HuffPo
Sharks likely headed back for Cape seal meals

Other:

CNN looking for "The Good Side of the Oil Spill"
Representative Jason Altmire: Job Killing Deficit Hawk
PICS of Oil-Soaked Wildlife; All the Rage in the Known Universe is Inadequate.
Things Everyone In Chicago Knows
The Lehi of the Internets
Israel's silicon army
Sex & Money, part 2
Chinese "Miracle"? No - Just A Scam
Client States

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