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Coral Bleaching Prompts Thailand to Close Diving Sites
What You Need to Know About Infectious Disease
The Microbial Metagenome
How to Explain Science in Blog Posts (#scio11)
The Academia Ghetto
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Stealing the Constitution
The Best Healthcare News You Didn't Hear This Week
The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty
Thousands of Post Offices, "Lifelines" of Rural Communities, Set to Close
The Market and Inequality: Progressives Lose When They Accept the Right's Framing
Death Threat for a Palin Critic
Twitter And Scholarly Discourse
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Thanks for the fucken link, holmes!