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    Bora Zivkovic 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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  • #SciAmBlogs Tuesday – fasting hypothermia, anthrax vaccine, neuroscience of magic, and more.

    Big congratulations to John Platt for winning the IFAW U.S. Animal Action Award! – Bora Zivkovic – Chossat’s Effect in humans and other animals   – Khalil A. Cassimally – Introducing: Akshat Rathi   – Nathaniel Kinsey – USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Entangled in the Excitement of Every New Day   – David Wogan – [...]

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    #SciAmBlogs Monday – glowing spider-worms, eclipse, bacterial data storage, diving tables, why and when of sleep, and more.

    Welcome back! It’s Monday – thus a new Image of the Week. – Scicurious – Wholesome food and wholesome morals: does seeing organic make you act like jerk?   – Krystal D’Costa – Anna Post on Managing Our Digital Spaces   – Jennifer Frazer – The Glowing Spider-Worms of New Zealand   – John Horgan [...]

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    Open Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

    It is now expected by the science blogosphere that I post the full updated listing of all the submissions every Monday morning. This serves as a reminder for bloggers to submit their (and other people’s) posts, and to some extent prevents duplicate entries. But most importantly, it presents a growing listing of some of the [...]

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    #SciAmBlogs Friday – plants in space, monitor lizards, Mount St. Helens anniversary, solar eclipse, engineering superheros, glia, Shaq, and more.

    Have a great weekend! – Christina Agapakis – Plants! In! Space!   – David Bressan – May 18, 1980: The eruption of Mount St. Helens   – Dana Hunter – To Mount St. Helens on the 32nd Anniversary of Her May 18th, 1980 Eruption   – Caleb A. Scharf – The Solar Eclipse Coincidence and [...]

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    #SciAmBlogs Thursday – Contagious Yawning, Ancient Bacteria, Electric Grid, Fossil amoebae, and more.

    - Jason G. Goldman – Contagious Yawning: Evidence of Empathy?   – S.E. Gould – Ancient Bacteria – the saga continues   – Dawn Santoianni – The Backbone of the Electric System: A Legacy of Coal and the Challenge of Renewables   – David Wogan – Approaching “Wall-E” with Honda’s Uni-Cub personal mobility device   [...]

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    #SciAmBlogs Wednesday – Allomothers, Exome Sequencing, Writing about patients, Social Media For Scientists and more.

    Wednesday, thus time for a new Video of the Week! – Kate Clancy – Happy Mother’s Day: To All the Allomothers   – Ricki Lewis – 10 Things Exome Sequencing Can’t Do–But Why It’s Still Powerful   – Ilana Yurkiewicz – Writing about patients: lessons from first year   – Khalil A. Cassimally – Introducing: [...]

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    #SciAmBlogs Tuesday – on that TIME cover…, stem cells, invasive beetles, drowned Cretaceous birds, onset of autism, and more.

    - Eric Michael Johnson – Out of the Mouth of Babes   – Samer Fakhri – Empowering the Body to Fix Its Parts   – Miller Zou – USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: The Invasion of the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle   – Darren Naish – A drowned nesting colony of Late Cretaceous birds   – Dana [...]

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    #SciAmBlogs Monday – decaying aluminum, living photography, science movie consultant, octopus on ice, ugliest experiments, and more.

    Today we are happy to announce the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs – check out Molecules to Medicine! And as usual on Mondays, we have the new Image of the Week. – Harold Johnson – Time to can the round numbers   – Stephanie Zvan – The Gravity of the Situation   – Christina Agapakis- Living [...]

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    Welcome Molecules to Medicine – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs

    I am very excited to announce the latest addition to the #SciAmBlogs network – Molecules to Medicine, by Dr. Judy Stone. 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. As she says, ‘she survived 25 years [...]

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    Open Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

    It is now expected by the science blogosphere that I post the full updated listing of all the submissions every Monday morning. This serves as a reminder for bloggers to submit their (and other people’s) posts, and to some extent prevents duplicate entries. But most importantly, it presents a growing listing of some of the [...]

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