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#SciAmBlogs Monday – belly button biodiversity, disease spread simulation, HIV dignity, coccaine vaccine, radioactive spiders, waxbows, newts, and more.

Yes, the Food Week is over, but that does not stop our bloggers from writing fascinating posts on a whole range of other topics! But first check out the new Best of the Blogs video: - Erin C.

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Yes, the Food Week is over, but that does not stop our bloggers from writing fascinating posts on a whole range of other topics!

But first check out the new Best of the Blogs video:


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- Erin C. McKiernan - Simulating the spread of disease

 

- Rob Dunn - New Revelations about the Biodiversity of Belly Buttons

 

- Tim Lahey - The Dignity of a Porn Star

 

- Maureen McCarthy - Chimps in Uganda: The Landmine Snare

 

- Athena Andreadis - Floating Brains and Invasive Minds

 

- Scicurious - Vaccinating Cocaine Use Away

 

- Hilda Bastian - Bad research rising: The 7th Olympiad of research on biomedical publicationandAcademic spin: How to dodge & weave past research exaggeration

 

- Scott Barry Kaufman - Why Education Needs More Radioactive Spiders

 

- Bora Zivkovic - “My Beloved…” and other dinosaurs.

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - Greeks, Trojans, and a Temporary Companion for Uranus

 

- Ferris Jabr - Film Review: “GMO OMG” SRSLY? An #EpicFail in Exercising Our Right to Know

 

- Kate Clancy - New iPhone App Helps Parents Get the Right Vaccine Information

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Chemical and Engineering News celebrates 90 years: How chemistry has come a long way

 

- Darren Naish - 33% of the newts of my country

 

- S.E. Gould - Butterfly watch: four legs vs. six legs

 

- Sheril Kirshenbaum - Scientists Report Human-Induced Climate Change Influences Extreme Weather Events. Now What?

 

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik - Neuroscience Meets Magic: an educational feature

 

- Carin Bondar - Mosquito Preference and Erotic Vomit! Best of the Blogs for August is Live

 

- Glendon Mellow - Skeletal Drawing Has Never Looked So Good

 

- Katie McKissick - The Best of Nature Comics with Bird and Moon

 

- Kyle Hill - Waxbows: The Incredible Beauty of a Blown Out CandleandNerds and Words: Week 36

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Physics Week in Review: September 7, 2013

 

- Jason G. Goldman - Photoblogging: Colorful Mandrill

 

- Dina Fine Maron - Lasker Awards to Honor Neuroscience, Hearing and Philanthropy Work

 

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