#SciAmBlogs Thursday – citizen science, Flame Challenge, drone journalism, birth of a volcano, complex brains, and more.

By Bora Zivkovic | February 28, 2013 |

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Last day of the month? Yup! Thus, a new episode of Best of the Blogs!

- Erin C. McKiernan – Challenges in Simulating a Human Brain

- Caren Cooper – Pearls across the Zooniverse: When Crowdsourcing Becomes Citizen Science

- Christine O’Connell – Out of the Comfort Zone and into the Fire–How taking the Flame Challenge can change your life

- Gary Stix – Brain-to-Brain: Dawning of the Telepathic Rat Tweet

- Dana Hunter – Paricutín: “Save Me From the Dangers in Which I am About to Die”

- Khalil A. Cassimally – Brace Yourselves, Drone Journalism Is Coming

- Bonnie Swoger – Good news about sharing scientific research

- Krystal D’Costa – Cleveland Rocks

- David Wogan – U.S. crude oil production reaches highest production since December 1992

- Alex Wild – Thrifty Thursday: The iPhone and the Grasshopper

- Glendon Mellow – Ultimate Croc Anatomy!

- Joanne Manaster – Math Warriors: Season 3

- Robin Lloyd – Comedy about Isaac Newton Enlightens

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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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