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#SciAmBlogs Friday - plants in space, monitor lizards, Mount St. Helens anniversary, solar eclipse, engineering superheros, glia, Shaq, and more.

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Have a great weekend!

- Christina Agapakis - Plants! In! Space!

 


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- David Bressan - May 18, 1980: The eruption of Mount St. Helens

 

- Dana Hunter - To Mount St. Helens on the 32nd Anniversary of Her May 18th, 1980 Eruption

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - The Solar Eclipse CoincidenceandBlack Holes Are Coming!

 

- Kelly Oakes - Zooming in on an intergalactic collision

 

- Darren Naish - Goanna-eating goannas: an evolutionary story of intraguild predation, dwarfism, gigantism, copious walking and reckless thermoregulation

 

- Nathaniel Kinsey - USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Marine Ecosystem Based Management

 

- Daisy Yuhas - Know Your Neurons: Meet the Glia

 

- David Wogan - How to use a paper towel

 

- Anna Kuchment - School Turns Engineering Faculty into Superheroes

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Shaq and the Mini-Shaq, the extreme primates.and The Scienceblogging Weekly (May 18, 2012)

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Bora’s Picks (May 18th, 2012)

 

- Scicurious - Friday Weird Science: whip it good, hold me closer, and other reproductive music messages

 

- David Biello - Millennia-old Microbes Found Alive in Deep Ocean Muck

 

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