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"Duck season!" "Rabbit season!" "Duck Season!" "Rabbit Season!" — clever art by UC Davis philosophy graduate student Megan Parks (via Zoe Drayson)
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Virtues and the microbiome — new research on how microbes affect their hosts’ fearfulness
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