Part 1 – Chicken Points
Cool Paper: Gotta catch’em all! Pokémon GO and physical activity among young adults: difference in differences study
Howe KB, Suharlim C, Ueda P, Howe D, Kawachi I and Rimm EM
BMJ 2016; 355
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i6270

Part 2 – Remote Fried Brain
TOC Roulette: Bidirectional electromagnetic control of the hypothalamus regulates feeding and metabolism
Stanley SA, Kelly L, Latcha KN, Schmidt SF, Yu X, Nectow AR, Sauer J, Dyke JP, Dordick and Friedman JM
Nature (2016) 531: 647-650
http://doi.org/10.1038/nature17183

Part 3 – Tight Shoes
TOC Roulette: Measurement of the Earth tides with a MEMS gravimeter
Middlemiss RP, Samarelli A, Paul DJ, Hough J, Rowan S and Hammond GD
Nature (2016) 531: 614-617
http://doi.org/10.1038/nature17397

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Part 1. The 3rd Party
Cool Paper: The effects of endowment size and strategy method on third party punishment
Jordan J, McAuliffe K, and Rand D
Experimental Economics (2016) 19: 741-763
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-015-9466-8

Part 2. Organic Dead End
Cool Paper: Evidence for the assimilation of ancient glacier organic carbon in a proglacial stream food web
Fellman JB, Hood E, Raymond PA, Hudson J, Bozeman M and Arimitsu M
Limnology and Oceanography (2015) 60(4):1118
https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10088

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Part 1. Inbred Inequality
Cool Paper: The “unguarded-X” and the genetic architecture of lifespan: Inbreeding results in a potentially maladaptive sex-specific reduction of female lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster.
Sultanova Z, Andic M and Carazo P
Evolution (2018)
http://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13426

Part 2. Thermal Couple
Cool Paper: Synthesis of ammonia directly from wet air at intermediate temperature
Lan R, Alkhazmi KA, Amar IA and Tao S
Applied Catalysis B: Environmental (2014) 152–153: 212-217
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2014.01.037

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Part 1 – Outweighed Clowns
Weiss R, Barish BC and Thorne KS
Physics – For decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2017/press.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GbWfNHtHRg

Part 2 – Sun Therapy
Hall JS, Rosbash M and Young MW
Physiology or Medicine – For their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2017/press.html

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Part 1. Tiny Hammers
Cool Paper: Nanocarriers for brain specific delivery of anti-retro viral drugs: challenges and achievements
Varghese NM, Venkatachalam S and Saxena SK
J Drug Target (2017)4:1-42
http://doi.org/10.1080/1061186X.2017.1374389

Part 2. Mermaid Murder
Cool Paper: Little evidence for intralocus sexual conflict over the optimal intake of nutrients for life span and reproduction in the black field cricket Teleogryllus commodus
Rapkin J, Archer CR, Grant CE, Jensen K, House CM, Wilson AJ and Hunt J
Evolution (2017) 71:2159–2177
http://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13299

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Part 1. Body Detective
Cool Paper: Inferring heterozygosity from ancient and low coverage genomes
Kousathanas A, Leuenberger C, Link V, Sell C, Burger J and Wegmann D
Genetics (2017) 205(1): 317-332
https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.189985

Part 2. Hot Rod
Cool Paper: Mitochondria are physiologically maintained at close to 50 °C
Chrétien D1, Bénit P, Ha HH, Keipert S, El-Khoury R, Chang YT, Jastroch M, Jacobs HT, Rustin P and Rak M
PLoS Biology (2018) 25 16(1):e2003992
http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003992

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Part 1. Cherry Lips
Cool paper: Orange peel disorder in sweet cherry: Mechanism and triggers
Schlegel HJ, Grimm E, Winkler A and Knoche M
Postharvest Biology and Technology (2018) 137:119-128
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postharvbio.2017.11.018

Part 2. Tanya Goes to the Lake
Cool paper: Estimating future cyanobacterial occurrence and importance in lakes: a case study with Planktothrix rubescens in Lake Geneva
Gallina N, Beniston M and Jacquet S
Aquatic Sciences (2017) 79:249-263
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00027-016-0494-z

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Part 1. Double Vigour
Cool Paper: Conflict between heterozygote advantage and hybrid incompatibility in haplodiploids (and sex chromosomes)
Ghenu AH, Blanckaert A, Butlin RK, Kulmuni J and Bank C
Molecular Ecology (2018)
http://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14482

Part 2. Owlogical Friendly
Cool Paper: On-board video recording unravels bird behavior and mortality produced by high-speed trains
García de la Morena EL, Malo JE, Hervás I, Mata C, González S, Morales R and Herranz J
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2017)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2017.00117/full

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Part 1. Milk Gate
Cool Paper: Cells keep a memory of their tissue origin during axolotl limb regeneration
Kragl M, Knapp D, Nacu E, Khattak S, Maden M, Epperlein HH and Tanaka EM
Nature (2009) 460(7251):60
https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08152

Part 2: Blind Expectations
Cool paper: The influence of color on the consumer’s experience of beer
Carvalho FR, Moors P, Wagemans J and Spence C
Frontiers in Psychology (2017) 8:2205
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02205

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Part 1a. Tubopus
TOC roulette: How to build a robot octopus
Courage KH
Scientific American (2013) 309, 84-87
https://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v309/n4/full/scientificamerican1013-84.html

Part 1b. Mother Pause
TOC roulette: Let’s not spring forward
Zivkovic B
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/lets-not-spring-forward/

Part 2. Meta Shake
Look a Cool Book: Art’s Illusory Sacrifice
Calderwood, JL
Shakespearean metadrama: The argument of the play in Titus Andronicus, love’s labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet, a midsummer night’s dream, and Richard II
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (1971) 120-148
https://books.google.ch/books?hl=fr&lr=lang_en&id=YNzKZ94auzcC&oi=fnd&pg=PA3&dq=+authornbsp:jl+authornbsp:calderwood&ots=kUX5srylTm&sig=nqtQErnzlGD5KJe3yie2jITsDKI#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Part 1 – Conversation Killer
Cool paper: Find the conversation killers: A predictive study of thread-ending posts
Jiao Y, Li C, Wu F, Mei Q
arXiv
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.08636
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ask-ai-how-not-kill-online-conversations

Part 2 – Family Jewels
Cool paper: The ecological role of sharks on coral reefs
Roff G, Doropoulos C, Rogers A, Bozec Y, Krueck NC, Aurellado E, Priest M, Birrell C, Mumby PJ
TREE (2016) 31(5): 395–407
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.02.014

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Part 1 – Royal Disaster
Cool paper: Pathogen dynamics during invasion and establishment of white-nose syndrome explain mechanisms of host persistence
Frick WF, Cheng TL, Langwig KE, Hoyt JR, Janicki AF, Parise KL, Foster JT, Kilpatrick AM
Ecology (2017) 83(3):624-631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1706

Part 2 – Quick Corruption
TOC roulette: Society level rule violations affect individuals’ intrinsic honesty
Shalvi S
Nature (2016) 531(7595): 496
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature17160

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Part 1 – The Dumbsimbo Effect
Does the placebo effect modulate drug bioavailability? Randomized cross-over studies of three drugs
Hammami MM, Yusuf A, Shire FS, Hussein R and Al-Swayeh A
Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine (2017) 16:10
https://jnrbm.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12952-017-0075-2

Part 2 – Emotional Rollercoaster
Never smile at a crocodile: Betting on electronic gaming machines is intensified by reptile-induced arousal
Rockloff M and Greer M
Journal of Gambling Studies (2010) 26(4): 571-581
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10899-009-9174-4

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