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The rise of facial recognition software, the new age of wildlife tracking, and the self-experimenting physician who won a Nobel. All in the next issue of Discover: http://bit.ly/1KL2Kov

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Should other fields take a page out of the particle physics playbook? bit.ly/1SmenIP

Blinded Analysis For Better Science?
In an interesting Nature comment piece, Robert MacCoun and Saul Perlmutter say that “more fields should, like particle physics, adopt blind analysis to thwart bias."
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Though Duncan MacDougall's experiments have long been discredited, they haven't been entirely forgotten: http://bit.ly/1RPJQSZ

The Man Who Tried to Weigh the Soul
Soul experiments became popular, lost credibility, and persisted in cultural memory, and they showcase human tendencies that are still influential today.
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From the archive: Fine tuning your science BS detector: http://bit.ly/1P80Vd8

Your BS Detector for Warp Drives, Double Moons, and Other Implausible Claims
Today is the day when, according to a widely circulated email/Facebook hoax, Mars will appear as large in the sky as the full moon. In reality, nothing short of the catastrophic disruption of the entire solar system could allow such a thing to happen (and if that were happening, you probably would h…
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The ancient art of wildlife tracking is on the verge of a modern-day renaissance: http://bit.ly/1MagcUV

Animal Tracking Enters the 21st Century
Developed by the earliest hunters, wildlife tracking skills remain essential tools for conservation.
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