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It is Friday, when some bloggers go for lighter fare - like LOLcats! - but others ignore this old blogospheric tradition and post serious stuff instead. See who did what today:
Eric Michael Johnson - Stressing Motherhood: How Biology and Social Inequality Foster Maternal Infanticide.
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Krystal D'Costa - The Original Angry Birds?.
Christie Wilcox - This Week’s Scishimi: Rock, Paper, Sexism and More.
Joanne Manaster - Reminiscing about the Space Shuttle Program through Video.
Serious Monkey Business - Guest Post! Seeing the Monkey in the Mirror.
Charles Q. Choi - From The Writer’s Desk: New Questions, New Frontiers.
Bora Zivkovic - ScienceOnline2011 – interview with Kari Wouk.
Glendon Mellow - Magic Beans.
Alex Wild - Two bloggy things.
Katherine Harmon - FDA Starts to Tackle Regulation of Health and Medical Apps.
Josette WoodenLegs and Tyler Bridges - How does one measure eggshell thickness in dinosaurs?
Jennifer Ouellette - Flushed With Pride.
David Bressan - Time for a new epoch? – the Anthropocene
Bora Zivkovic - Some weekend reading for you
Princess Ojiaku - Highlights of Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus
And if you missed some of the other recent posts - I have collected them here:
Need to catch up after the weekend? Here are the links…
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