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  1. Learning From the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease by Rafe Sagarin

    Octopus defenses, marmot lie detection, salmon suicide and other natural phenomena provide inspiration for ways to improve national security. Basic Books, 2012, 320 p., $26.99

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  2. Life

    Eight-legged evolution exploits editing

    Octopuses adapt to water temperature with tweaks to how genes are copied, not DNA itself.

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  3. Animals

    The real vampire squid

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  4. Tech

    The 3-D Printing Revolution

    Using a technique known as 3-D printing, regular people can now make goods typically produced in huge quantities in factories overseas.

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  5. Book Review: Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid by Wendy Williams

    Review by Daniel Strain.

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  6. Paleontology

    Octopus origins

    After examining more than 90 new specimens of Nectocaris pteryx, paleontologists put it near the root of the cephalopod evolutionary tree.

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  7. Life

    Nouveaux Antennas

    A single hairlike appendage may allow a cell to sense the outside world

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  8. Octopus by Jennifer A. Mather, Roland C. Anderson and James B. Wood

    An in-depth look reveals the uncanny smarts and elegant adaptations of these eight-armed wonders. OCTOPUS Timber Press, 2010, 208 p., $25.95.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Enriched with Information

    New theory doesn’t limit consciousness to the brain.

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  10. Earth

    Primordial bestiary gets an annex

    A classic Canadian fossil trove extends to thinner deposits, geologists find.

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  11. Earth

    Extinctions breed carbon chaos

    Massive die-off left ecosystems vulnerable, an analysis suggests.

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  12. Letters

    Thinking animals An interesting article, but the question of human consciousness seems no closer to solution in “Humans wonder, anybody home?” by Susan Gaidos (SN: 12/19/09, p. 22) than it did in Julian Jaynes’ The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind of 1976. It seems to me that all the mental […]

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