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Mon. 06/07 - Squids In Space & Why Vaccine Lotteries Work

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SpaceX just delivered a bunch of tardigrades and baby squids to the International Space Station. New research finding pupil size is an indicator of intelligence. And why it seems like vaccine lotteries are actually working.

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Why NASA Is Blasting Water Bears And Bobtail Squid Into Space (NPR)
  • NASA Squid In SpaceX Mission To International Space Station (Jalopnik)
  • SpaceX’s 22nd Commercial Resupply Mission to Space Station (NASA) 
  • NASA’s Juno probe will get close to Jupiter’s moon Ganymede on Monday (The Verge)
  • Pupil Size Is a Marker of Intelligence (Scientific American)
  • FDA approves first drug to slow decline of Alzheimer’s disease (Washington Post)
  • Wait, Vaccine Lotteries Actually Work? (Wired)
  • A 6-Year-Old Requested A Birthday Cake Showing The Beheading Of Anne Boleyn And That’s Exactly What She Got (Buzzfeed News)
  • Girl, 3, requests morbid 'Lion King' scene on birthday cake so she can have it all to herself (NBC News)
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