On a twttr break | Senior Editor @nature | These thoughts are mine alone since nobody else will take responsibility.

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Joined February 2009
Everywhere I look, I see people falling prey to confirmation bias. Just as I suspected.
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Fact-check of the GOP debate: None of these candidates should be elected.
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Instead of obsessing about the Super Bowl, why not obsess about a SuperB owl? news.nationalgeographic.com/…
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We need to make Election Day a federal holiday to increase voters’ ability to participate.
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8-yo: If you combine the DNA of a bird and a person, can the person fly? me: no. 8-yo: dammit.
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Researchers are probing doggie DNA to shed light on behavioral quirks: nature.com/news/dog-dna-prob… /via @NatureNews
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This is what happens when too few of us are needed to feed the rest of us: xitter.cf/AFP/status/69475563017…
Adult coloring book craze booms in US u.afp.com/ZscY
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Ted Cruz' daughter speaks for all of us: gawker.com/heres-ted-cruzs-m…
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Love how every major starship in Star Wars is just chillin' with the doors wide open, catching the breeze from the vacuum of space.
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Whenever I read about Cliven Bundy or anything about Oregon militia men, I begin to wonder why men stopped evolving 25,000 years ago.
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Whiskey? Where? Where's the whiskey??photography.nationalgeograph…
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It still feels wrong to receive hearts instead of stars. I hate change.
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I don't understand the evolutionary psychology behind why burning shit feels so great, but my fire right now rocks.
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Can't stop listening to @radiohead's rejected theme song for the Bond movie "Spectre"... radiohead.com/deadairspace/s…
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All twttr accounts should auto-delete after 11,680 tweets because 8 tweets a day for 4 years straight is way more than enough.
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You guys stopped buying Powerball, tickets, right? Because $40M is complete garbage.
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Unfortunately, Americans aren't very good with the implications of doubling something teeny: xkcd.com/1252/
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Just bought a Powerball ticket because...why not? Then I bought a second ticket to double my chances of winning. #math
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I'd watch a Golden Globes of science, said nobody.
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It's 2016 and I still hate the ❤️.
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