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#SciAmBlogs Thursday – Testing Kids’ DNA, medical apps, Einstein Writings, 3-D Printed Octopus Suckers, Stormwater, ENCODE, and more.

By Bora Zivkovic | February 21, 2013 |

- Ricki Lewis – New Guidelines on Testing Kids’ DNA – the Cliff’s Notes Version

- Carly Goldstein – There’s an App for That: Policy and Technological Advances in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

- Ashutosh Jogalekar – ENCODE, Apple Maps and function: Why definitions matter and Physics Nobel Prizes and second acts

- John R. Platt – 4 Extinct Species That People Still Hope to Rediscover

- Jennifer Frazer – The Colossal Squid is Still At Large, and Other Thoughts on the Giant Squid’s Deep Sea Film Debut

- Tilman Sauer – Newly Published Einstein Writings Show the Prehistory of His Debates with Niels Bohr

- Katherine Harmon – 3-D Printed Octopus Suckers Help Robots Stick

- Scott Huler – Stormwater Film Festival

- Bora Zivkovic – Introducing: Nicholas St. Fleur

- Alex Wild – Most zombie ant photographs are upside down

- Darren Naish – Karl Shuker’s The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals

- Gary Stix – Map of Brain’s Speech Centers May Help ‘Locked-In’ Patients Talk

- Jason G. Goldman – Science on Screen in LA Tomorrow: Bestiaire followed by Q&A

- Kate Clancy – The Biological Anthropology Field Experiences Web Survey: Now Live

- Eric R. Olson – The Countdown, Episode 16 – Supernova Space Rays, Liquid Lunar Mystery, Red Dwarf Exoplanets, Name Pluto’s Moons, Meteor Attack from Space

- Michael Moyer – Millionaire Plans Manned Mission to Mars in 2018

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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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