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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Somata | |
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| Make History, Not Vitamin C | |
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| Saving Ethiopia's "Church Forests," | |
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| What It Feels Like for a Sperm | |
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| Incredible Journey | |
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| In the Shadows of Greatness | |
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| A View to a Kill in the Morning | |
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| It's Sedimentary, My Dear Watson | |
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| Menstruation Is Just Blood and Tissue You Ended Up Not Using | |
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| Joule's Jewel | |
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| Unraveling the Fear o' the Jolly Roger | |
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| Free Science, One Paper at a Time | |
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| Tinea Speaks Up: A Fairy Tale | |
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| Man Discovers a New Life-Form at a South African Truck Stop | |
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| Moon Arts: Fallen Astronaut | |
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| Science Metaphors: Resonance | |
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| Bombardier Beetles, Bee Purple, and the Sirens of the Night | |
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| Mpemba's Baffling Discovery | |
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| Romeo: A Lone Wolf's Tragedy in Three Acts | |
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| Rats, Bees, and Brains: The Death of the "Cognitive Map," | |
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| Don't Panic: Sustainable Seafood and the American Outlaw | |
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| On Beards, Biology, and Being a Real American | |
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| . I Love Gin and Tonics | |
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| Adorers of the Good Science of Rock-Breaking | |
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| "I Feel the Percussive Roar on the Skin of My Face," | |
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| Freedom to Riot | |
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| Inside the "Black Box" of Nuclear Power Plants | |
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| This Ain't Yo Mommas Muktuk | |
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| Chessboxing Is Fighting for Good Behavior | |
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| Mirror Images: Twins and Identity | |
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| Did the CIA Fake a Vaccination Campaign? | |
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| Free Will and Quantum Clones | |
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| Dear Emma B | |
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| Faster Than a Speeding Photon | |
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| Sunrise in the Garden of Dreams | |
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| Volts and Vespa: Buzzing About Photoelectric Wasps | |
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| How to Stop a Hurricane | |
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| Shakes on a Plane: Can Turbulence Kill You? | |
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| How Addiction Feels: The Honest Truth | |
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| Ten Million Feet upon the Stair | |
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| Woof! Living Boldly as a "Free-Range Aspergian," | |
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| The Dodo Is Dead, Long Live the Dodo! | |
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| Sex and the Married Neurotic | |
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| Why Do Women Cry? Obviously It's So They Don't Get Laid | |
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| How to Take the Real Measure of a Man | |
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| The Origin and Extinction of Species | |
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| Genome Sequencing and Assembly, Shakespeare Style | |
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| The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Natural Selection | |
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| The Renaissance Man | |
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| Fragmented Intimacies | |
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| The Human Lake | |
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| Acknowledgments | |