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#SciAmBlogs - Ada Lovelace day, radical scholarship, doomsday and more...

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Today was the Ada Lovelace day - see what some of our bloggers wrote about it:

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Ada Lovelace and the Luddites.

 


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- Princess Ojiaku - Honoring Dr. Gleason for Ada

 

- DNLee - Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day

 

- Joanne Manaster - Ada Lovelace Day-Meet the founder of Bioinformatics, Margaret Dayhoff

 

From the rest of the network:

- Kate Clancy - The three things I learned at the Purdue Conference for Pre-Tenure Women: on being a radical scholar

 

- Glendon Mellow - Thank you for the new way to fingerpaint, Steve.

 

- John R. Platt - Hellbender Salamander Gets Endangered Species Designation, but No Habitat Protection—and That May Be a Good Thing

 

- Marc B Garnick - Prostate Cancer Screening: The Pros and Cons

 

- Melissa C. Lott - The U.S. Now Uses More Corn For Fuel Than For Feed

 

- Jessica Fostvedt - Doomsday, Apocalypse, and Rapture, Oh my!

 

- Katrina Edwards - North Pond: Core on Deck!

 

- Scicurious - Friday Weird Science: Narcoleptic Disney Characters

 

- Darren Naish - Identify the mystery object (please)

 

- Sarah Fecht - Geoengineering Tests Delayed Until Spring

 

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