July 20, 2011

Quick summary of the day

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American

While the bloggers are so prolific (you have to remember they had to wait several months until the launch, having blog posts all written and ready to go in advance) I feel I need to do these summaries almost daily. Here is the latest crop of posts, if you missed them over the past day or so:

Michelle Clement: Visual bias in soccer fouls.

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Jennifer Ouellette: Physicists Embrace the Splatter Master

Darren Naish: Cryptozoology at the Zoological Society of London. Cryptozoology: time to come in from the cold? Or, Cryptozoology: avoid at all costs?

Davide Castelvecchi: When Math(s) Turns Out To Be Useful

John Horgan: The Curse of Iatrogenesis: When 'Cures' Make Us Sicker

Cedar Riener: Deselection of the Bottom 8%: Lessons from Eugenics for Modern School Reform

John Platt: Want to Conserve Bats? There's an App for That

David Bressan: July 19, 1985: The Val di Stava dam collapse

Charles Q. Choi: Welcome back to Too Hard For Science? and Seven noteworthy entries from Too Hard For Science? and Too Hard For Science? Detecting Signals From Before the Big Bang

Bora Zivkovic: ScienceOnline2011 – interview with Kaitlin Thaney

Kate Clancy: How do we define populations?

David Biello: Nuclear Fission Confirmed as Source of More than Half of Earth's Heat and What Was in the Oil Spilled during BP's Gulf of Mexico Disaster?

Lauren Reid: Let’s Educate Kids About Animals