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Doctors save baby’s life with 3D-printed tracheal implant

Using CT scan, doctors modeled and printed bioplastic splint to keep airway open.

A round-up of recent landslide incidents, including two American children tragically killed by a mudslide whilst collecting fossils

News of landslides from the USA, Canada and Hong Kong, and about the role of landslides in the Day of Judgement

Time for change

By Kelly It’s the end of the week, the near end of a season, and it’s time to spring clean a little. As leaves senesce and fall off the trees…so do bloggers. OnCirculation has been going strong for well over … Continue reading →

Mislabeled Images Bedevil Landmark Cloning Paper

Author Shoukhrat Mitalopov wishes "we had that software" to check figures

“Race, Intelligence, and Genetics For Curious Dummies”

Last week, a cicada-like re-emergence of “Bell Curve” claims of a genetic determinacy between intelligence and race surfaced in a Heritage Foundation special report on immigration. The report drew on Jason Richwine’s Harvard dissertation, “IQ and Immigration Policy.” Amid the furor, the Atlantic’s Ta Nehisi Coates was ready with the history. He wrote in [...]

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