Teen Skepchick’s Reality Checks 12.9

• Bill Nye’s open letter to Pres. Obama in defense of planetary science. (via The Planetary Society)
• An interview with this year’s Google Science Fair winner, 17-year-old Eric Chen. (via Scientific American)
• A potential cure for AIDS has failed. (via NPR)
• In 2013, measles cases in the United States have tripled. (via Bad Astronomy)

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