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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.
  • #SciAmBlogs Friday – quantum computing, rationalilty, armed Treebeard, Giant African Land Snails, invasive ladybugs, and more.

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    - Alan Woodward – Is It Quantum Computing Or Not?   – Jag Bhalla – What Rational Really Means   – Samuel Jones – Bush-crow diaries: Settling in with the Borana   – Kalliopi Monoyios – Is Homosexuality Natural? Yes. So is male lactation.   – Jamil Zaki – Eliminating political divides through morality: The [...]

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    #SciAmBlogs Thursday – Mathematical Organisms, DNA Sequences, Frontal Cortex, green spaces, and more.

    - Joselle Kehoe – Quantum Mechanical Words and Mathematical Organisms   – Dennis Waters – Why Do Sequences Think They Are So Special?   – Kyle Hill – Death By Lens Flare: Drink Into Darkness   – Scott Barry Kaufman – Gorillas Agree: Human Frontal Cortex is Nothing Special   – Maria Konnikova – Want [...]

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    #SciAmBlogs Wednesday – smart dogs, vanishing frogs, cognitive chickens, spotted kiwis, memorable slugs, and more.

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    Enjoy the newest Video of the Week! – Karen Lips – What if there is no happy ending? Science communication as a path to change   – Jag Bhalla – Tools Are In Our Nature   – Samuel McNerney – The Bias Within The Bias   – Jason G. Goldman – Cognitive Chickens and Memorable [...]

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    #SciAmBlogs Tuesday – Angelina Jolie, Commander Hadfield, Robert Oppenheimer, Iron Man, ScienceSeeker Winners, and other superheros.

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    Lots of news on the Network today! First – we have launched a new blog – check it out! Second – several of our bloggers were winners or finalists of the ScienceSeeker Awards. Who? See here. Third – we have the new Image of the Week for you to see. – Hilda Bastian – Courage [...]

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    Welcome Overthinking It – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs

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    Connoisseurs of our Guest Blog are likely familiar with the name Kyle Hill, as he has written more than twenty posts there, several of which were big hits. It is not surprising, then, that we have invited Kyle to join our network with his own blog. Check it out – Overthinking It! Kyle also blogs [...]

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    #SciAmBlogs Monday – food recycling, lab dissections, suicide rise, mothers, butterflies, mosses, Hadfield, #400ppm, and more.

    - Layla Eplett – Second Helpings: Recycling Cairo’s Food Waste   – Rob Dunn – What is Wrong With Dissections? Hint, it is Not What You Think.   – Samyukta Mullangi – ‘All I really want to do is sleep’   – Melanie Tannenbaum – The Incredible Importance of Mom   – S.E. Gould – [...]

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    #SciAmBlogs Friday – Lemuria, ‘jootsing’, #chemophobia, secrets of good marriage, Kahneman’s new terminology, and more.

    - Chad Jones – DDT and Sucralose: A Case Study in Chemophobia   – Jag Bhalla – Kahneman’s Clarity: Using Mysterious Coinage in Science   – Melanie Tannenbaum – How To Have A Longer Marriage Than Kim Kardashian. and Follow PsySociety on Facebook!   – David Bressan – A Geologist´s Dream: The Lost Continent of [...]

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    #SciAmBlogs Thursday – diamonds, smart mice, rhino poaching, crocopocalypse, 400 PPM, and more.

    - Martin Angler – Dye and Poison Stop Rhino Poachers   – Simon Wellings – Some facets of the geology of diamonds   – John McCarthy – Human brain cells alive in mouse brains.   – Eric Michael Johnson – Equality and Individuality: A Collaboration Between Primates   – Darren Naish – Crocopocalypse exposed in [...]

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    #SciAmBlogs Wednesday – natural storytellers, arranged bird eggs, holding the qaqa, anti-anxiety Tylenol, and more.

    Check out the new Image of the Week and Video of the Week today. – Jag Bhalla – It is in our nature to need stories.   – Ben Thomas – Tomorrow’s Anti-Anxiety Drug Is… Tylenol?   – Felicity Muth – Birds arrange eggs in their nests to better detect imposters   – Judy Stone [...]

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    #SciAmBlogs Tuesday – Mythbusters, attractive voice, photo finish, caffeinated amoeba, Ray Harryhausen, DSM-5, and more.

    Sorry for missing in action last night – was busy having fun in Toronto… – Kyle Hill – A Decade of Explosions: What ‘Mythbusters’ Taught Me   – Susan Swanberg – Solving the Mysteries of the Human Condition Using Genetic Tools   – Bob Grumman – M@h*(pOet)?ica–Mathekphrastic Poetry, Part 2   – Scicurious – I [...]

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