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By mikethemadbiologist on July 10, 2010.

It's hot and muggy. Stay inside and read some links. Science:

Amateur Scientist Has Built a Fusion Reactor in Brooklyn
Robins can literally see magnetic fields, but only if their vision is sharp (but can they shoot laser beams out of their eyes? That would be cool, if dangerous)
Tyrannosaurs: history's most fearsome... scavengers?
First humans arrived in Britain 250,000 years earlier than thought

Other:

Why Corporations Matter, Part I
Really, it's not about the money, it's about class warfare
Serious People Notice Banks Are Gouging Consumers and Tanking the Economy
TARP Martyrs: The Post Mourns Politicians Who Lost for Helping the Banks
Collateral Damage: Racism, the Economy and the High Cost of White Ambivalence
True Story (about gender bias in sales)

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