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PsiVid
EXPOSED: The Global Epidemic of TB
By Joanne Manaster | May 25, 2013 |
Joanne Manaster is a university level cell and molecular biology lecturer with an insatiable passion for science outreach to all ages. Enjoy her quirky videos at www.joannelovesscience.com, on twitter @sciencegoddess and on her Facebook page at JoanneLovesScienceFollow on Twitter @sciencegoddess.
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Extinction Countdown
A Monkey with Human Eyes and Other Links from the Brink
By John R. Platt | May 25, 2013 | 2
Twice a week, John Platt shines a light on endangered species from all over the globe, exploring not just why they are dying out but also what's being done to rescue them from oblivion.Follow on Twitter @johnrplatt.
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Cocktail Party Physics
Physics Week in Review: May 25, 2013
By Jennifer Ouellette | May 25, 2013 |
Jennifer Ouellette is a science writer who loves to indulge her inner geek by finding quirky connections between physics, popular culture, and the world at large.Follow on Twitter @JenLucPiquant.
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MIND Illusion Chasers
NeuroSCIence in FIction: Kill Decision
By Stephen L. Macknik | May 24, 2013 |
Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik are laboratory directors at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. Follow on Twitter @illusionchasers.
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STAFF The Network Central
#SciAmBlogs Friday - Kirk vs. Spock, bridge failure, elephant seals, chemical intuition, predatory journals, sleep learning, and more.
By Bora Zivkovic | May 24, 2013 |
Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web.Follow on Twitter @boraz.
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Cross-Check
Barack Obama Should Call for End of All War, Not Just War on Terror
By John Horgan | May 24, 2013 | 20
Every week, hockey-playing science writer John Horgan takes a puckish, provocative look at breaking science. A teacher at Stevens Institute of Technology, Horgan is the author of four books, including The End of Science (Addison Wesley, 1996) and The End of War (McSweeney's, 2012).Follow on Twitter @Horganism.
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Cocktail Party Physics
Dear Guardian: You've Been Played
By Jennifer Ouellette | May 24, 2013 | 7
Jennifer Ouellette is a science writer who loves to indulge her inner geek by finding quirky connections between physics, popular culture, and the world at large.Follow on Twitter @JenLucPiquant.
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Information Culture
It's not about predators, it's about journal quality
By Bonnie Swoger | May 24, 2013 | 1
Bonnie J. M. Swoger is a Science and Technology Librarian at a small public undergraduate institution in upstate New York, SUNY Geneseo. She teaches students about the science literature, helps faculty and students with library research questions and leads library assessment efforts. She has a BS in Geology from St. Lawrence University, an MS in Geology from Kent State University and an MLS from the University at Buffalo. She would love to have some free time in which to indulge in hobbies. She blogs at the Undergraduate Science Librarian and can be found on twitter @bonnieswoger.Follow on Twitter @bonnieswoger.
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Molecules to Medicine
Anti-Psychiatry Prejudice? A response to Dr. Lieberman
By Judy Stone | May 24, 2013 | 19
Judy Stone, MD is an infectious disease specialist, experienced in conducting clinical research. She is the author of Conducting Clinical Research, the essential guide to the topic. She survived 25 years in solo practice in rural Cumberland, Maryland, and is now broadening her horizons. She particularly loves writing about ethical issues, and tilting at windmills in her advocacy for social justice. As part of her overall desire to save the world when she grows up, she has become especially interested in neglected tropical diseases. When not slaving over hot patients, she can be found playing with photography, friends’ dogs, or in her garden. Follow on Twitter @drjudystone or on her website.Follow on Twitter @drjudystone.
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Overthinking It
Scour: Why Most Bridges Fail
By Kyle Hill | May 24, 2013 |
Kyle Hill is a freelance science writer and research fellow who specializes in finding the secret science in your favorite fandom.Follow on Twitter @Sci_Phile.
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Expeditions
Northern Elephant Seals: Increasing Population, Decreasing Biodiversity
By Jim Haw | May 24, 2013 |
Dr. Jim Haw is Ray R. Irani Professor of Chemistry and director of the Environmental Studies Program in the USC Dana and Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. He is also a scientific, technical and recreational diver.
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MIND MIND Guest Blog
The Cognitive Science of Star Trek
By Jag Bhalla | May 24, 2013 |
Jag Bhalla is an entrepreneur and writer. His current project is Errors We Live By, a series of short exoteric essays exposing errors in the big ideas running our lives, details at www.errorsweliveby.comwww.errorsweliveby.com. His last book was I'm Not Hanging Noodles On Your Ears, a surreptitious science gift book from National Geographic Books, details at www.hangingnoodles.comwww.hangingnoodles.com. It explains his twitter handle @hangingnoodlesFollow on Twitter @hangingnoodles.
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STAFF The SA Incubator
Khalil's Picks (24 May 2013)
By Khalil A. Cassimally | May 24, 2013 |
Khalil A. Cassimally is the community manager of Nature Education and SciLogs.com. He's also a science blogger. He hails from a tropical island and is a happy geek. Subscribe to his updates on Facebook and Google+.Follow on Twitter @notscientific.
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The Curious Wavefunction
What is chemical intuition?
By Ashutosh Jogalekar | May 24, 2013 | 2
Ashutosh (Ash) Jogalekar is a chemist interested in the history and philosophy of science. He considers science to be a seamless and all-encompassing part of the human experience.Follow on Twitter @curiouswavefn.
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MIND Illusion Chasers
To sleep perchance to learn
By Susana Martinez-Conde | May 23, 2013 |
Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik are laboratory directors at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. Follow on Twitter @illusionchasers.
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STAFF The Network Central
#SciAmBlogs Thursday - science diagrams, mental illness art, beavers are fish, amphibian decline, cicadas, and more.
By Bora Zivkovic | May 23, 2013 |
Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web.Follow on Twitter @boraz.
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The Ocelloid
Protist-y art continued: the protist zodiac
By Psi Wavefunction | May 23, 2013 |
Psi Wavefunction is a recent graduate of the University of British Columbia working as a researcher at Indiana University, Bloomington, and blogs about protists and evolution at The Ocelloid as well as at Skeptic Wonder.Follow on Twitter @Ocelloid.
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Extinction Countdown
Amphibians in U.S. Declining at "Alarming and Rapid Rate"
By John R. Platt | May 23, 2013 | 1
Twice a week, John Platt shines a light on endangered species from all over the globe, exploring not just why they are dying out but also what's being done to rescue them from oblivion.Follow on Twitter @johnrplatt.
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Guest Blog
A New Way Has Been Found to Make Truck Emissions Testing More Accurate and Less Costly
By Donald Stedman | May 23, 2013 |
Donald Stedman is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Denver. Stedman was on the 1986 NAS NRC Committee on Airliner Cabin Air Quality, which recommended the ban on smoking in airplanes for the health of flight attendants.Follow on Twitter @UofDenver.
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Compound Eye
Thrifty Thursday: A common dandelion, a common sunset, a common phone camera
By Alex Wild | May 23, 2013 |
Alex Wild is an Illinois-based entomologist who studies the evolutionary history of ants. In 2003 he founded a photography business as an aesthetic complement to his scientific work, and his natural history photographs appear in numerous museums, books, and media outlets. Follow on Twitter @myrmecos.
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Expeditions
Marine Protected Areas and Catalina Island: Conserve, Maintain and Enrich
By Jim Haw | May 23, 2013 | 1
Dr. Jim Haw is Ray R. Irani Professor of Chemistry and director of the Environmental Studies Program in the USC Dana and Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. He is also a scientific, technical and recreational diver.
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MIND The Thoughtful Animal
Once Upon A Time, The Catholic Church Decided That Beavers Were Fish
By Jason G. Goldman | May 23, 2013 | 10
Jason G. Goldman is a graduate student in developmental psychology at the University of Southern California, where he studies the evolutionary and developmental origins of the mind in humans and non-human animals. Jason is also an editor at ScienceSeeker and Editor of Open Lab 2010. He lives in Los Angeles, CA. Follow on Google+.Follow on Twitter @jgold85.
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Guest Blog
The Art and Science of the Diagram: Communicating the Knowledge of the Heavens, the Earth and the Arcane, Final Part
By Clarissa Ai Ling Lee | May 23, 2013 |
Clarissa Ai Ling Lee is a Phd Candidate in the Literature Program at Duke University, specializing in science and technology studies and comparative media studies. She also possesses an undergraduate degree in physics and a MA in English from the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. She blogs alternately at Unquiet mind of an academic libertine and Epistemic Circus.Follow on Twitter @normasalim.
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STAFF Brainwaves
A Brief History of Mental Illness in Art
By Ferris Jabr | May 23, 2013 | 3
Ferris Jabr is an associate editor focusing on neuroscience and psychology. Follow on Twitter @ferrisjabr.
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STAFF Observations
Deciphering the Strange Mathematics of Cicadas [Video]
By John Matson | May 23, 2013 |
John Matson is an associate editor at Scientific American focusing on space, physics and mathematics.Follow on Twitter @jmtsn.
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Rosetta Stones
The Cataclysm: "From Unbaked Fragments to Vitreous Charcoal"
By Dana Hunter | May 23, 2013 |
Dana Hunter is a science blogger, SF writer, and geology addict whose home away from SciAm is En Tequila Es Verdad. Follow her on Twitter: @dhunterauthor.Follow on Twitter @dhunterauthor.
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MIND Illusion Chasers
Illusion of the week: It Kind Of Looks Like a Building
By Stephen L. Macknik | May 22, 2013 |
Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik are laboratory directors at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. Follow on Twitter @illusionchasers.
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STAFF The Network Central
#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - niche construction, cicadas, ageing, Moon, pirates' dodo, sick caecilians, hurricane forecasts, and more.
By Bora Zivkovic | May 22, 2013 |
Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web.Follow on Twitter @boraz.
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Compound Eye
Recipe for a Photograph #2: Bee in Flight
By Alex Wild | May 22, 2013 | 2
Alex Wild is an Illinois-based entomologist who studies the evolutionary history of ants. In 2003 he founded a photography business as an aesthetic complement to his scientific work, and his natural history photographs appear in numerous museums, books, and media outlets. Follow on Twitter @myrmecos.
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Guest Blog
Discover the Secret of the 17-Year Cicada, But It Won’t Get You Tenure
By David Rothenberg | May 22, 2013 | 3
Musician and philosopher David Rothenberg is the author of Why Birds Sing, Thousand Mile Song, Survival of the Beautiful, and his latest, Bug Music. His writings have appeared in at least eleven languages. His latest major label music CD, One Dark Night I Left My Silent House, a duet with pianist Marilyn Crispell, came out on ECM in 2010. Rothenberg is professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.Follow on Twitter @whybirdssing.
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