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A-glitter in the Net – Best reads and links Sept 13 2013

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SCIENCE Don’t miss David Quammen’s gorgeous, moving review of George Johnson’s beautiful masterwork, Cancer Chronicles. I read some great stuff this week, but nothing that moved me more than this. Brendan Borrell with an incredible story about a frog taxonomist who hops back in time to refresh the work of another, quite strange frog taxonomist who was […]

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A’glitter In the Net: Mirrored Monkeys, Chilly Skeptics, More Monkeys, Cocaine, and Whales

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Some of my favs from the last week or so. The photo above sums the dilemma explored in Seeing the Monkey in the Mirror: It’s not just the monkey in the mirror: It’s people looking at monkeys looking at themselves in a mirror that the person holds. A nice meta-level look at this self-recognition paradigm by @SrsMonkeyBiz, […]

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