Photo by Arthur Chapman.

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• Not as simple as you think. Video explanations of what a flame is.
• Next time, can we ask someone who’s actually applied to NSF? In which an economist mostly misunderstands the incentives of science funding.
• Monkey curiousity is adaptive. Basic research is worth funding precisely because we don’t know what it’ll be good for.
• Worth a shot. Could science learn how to overcome imposter syndrome from the example of sports?
• Yes, another genome. The stickleback genome helps find new targets of adaptive evolution.
• And there are a few. On the limits to coming out in ecology.
• We don’t need no stinkin’ quarantine. Ant colonies fight infection by spreading it around.

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