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#SciAmBlogs Monday – Kenyan mesopredators, Up-Goer Five, Commenting, #scio13, Historic Meteor Procession, Public Statistics, Davos, and more.

By Bora Zivkovic | January 28, 2013 |

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We have a new blog on the network as well as the usual Monday’s addition of the new Image of the Week.

- Chris Rowan and Anne Jefferson – Science in Ten Hundred Words: The ‘Up-Goer Five’ challenge.

- Kyle Hill – The Last Thing the Squirrel Saw

- S.E. Gould – The bacteria that use cholesterol to get into cells.

- Bora Zivkovic – Commenting threads: good, bad, or not at all.

- Janet D. Stemwedel – Academic tone-trolling: How does interactivity impact online science communication?

- Kate Clancy – Kate Clancy’s Short Grant Rant: On Broken Promises

- Scicurious – On Identity: #scio13

- Jennifer Ouellette – When Science Meets Fiction and Forensic Astronomer Cracks the Case of Historic Meteor Procession

- Evelyn Lamb – How Should We Write about Statistics in Public?

- Frank Swain – Journalism By Numbers: Why Journalists Are Skipping Lunch To Learn Stats

- Krystal D’Costa – Confession: I’m Not Such a Reluctant e-Reader Adopter (Anymore)

- David Bressan – Men among prediluvian Beasts

- Brian Malow – Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself

- Anne-Marie Hodge – Laikipia Plateau: mesopredators in Kenya

- Malcolm Clark – Previous research in the Kermadec Trench

- Alan Jamieson – Kermadec Trench: Scuttling your Assets

- Melissa C. Lott – Nanoparticle Leads to World Record for Battery Storage

- David Wogan – Designing a climate resilient New York City

- Joanne Manaster – Remembering Challenger Astronaut Ronald McNair

- Melody – To the New Generation

- Psi Wavefunction – Centrohelids: creatures of the sun

- Bora Zivkovic – Welcome But Seriously… – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs

- John Matson – A Remembrance of Challenger Astronaut Ronald McNair on Anniversary of Shuttle Disaster [Video]

- Mariette DiChristina – Davos: Decisions and Data and Davos: The Future of Space and Davos: X Marks the Unknown

- Mark Fischetti – What is Consciousness? Go to the Video!

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About the Author: 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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