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• This week at Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Devin Drown reviews The Adaptive Landscape in Evolutionary Biology.
• And at the Molecular Ecologist: The carnival of knowing what I know now.
• Surprise? The biodiversity of a cornfield is pretty depressing.
• Handy. Tinkering with fishes’ developmental genes recreates (a bit) of the evolution of fins into digits.
• Of course, winter means wearing more clothes, which harbor lice … Napoleon’s invasion of Russia was stymied not by winter, but by lice carrying typhus.
• It is, as they say, all in your head. The physical reality underlying near-death experiences.
• A mess, but one we need to clean up. Race, poverty, and access to education.
• Inactivated what now? A new therapy for leukemia that uses inactivated HIV to reprogram white blood cells looks promising.
• For all the good that will do. Climate scientists are starting to use alarming talk titles at conferences.
• A crucial question. How well would wine grapes really grow in world of Game of Thrones?

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