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#SciAmBlogs Monday - cartography, Impact Factor, social pressure, blood-thirsty microbes, ferns, supermoon, DSN-5 and more.

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Today we introduce Information Culture - the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs.

As usual on Monday, we have a new Image of the Week for you to enjoy.

- Kate Prengaman - What Cartography taught me about science writing


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- Elizabeth Preston - The deep [poem]

 

- Jessica Morrison - Can science save us? Mourdock sees a savior in science

 

- Bonnie Swoger - You have to share

 

- Hadas Shema - Introduction post – Hadas ShemaandUnderstanding the Journal Impact Factor – Part One

 

- Krystal D'Costa - The Science of Social Pressure

 

- S.E. Gould - Pathogens that feed off human blood

 

- Jennifer Frazer - Ferns, Secret Ninja Ferns, and their Alluring Asexual Bits

 

- Christie Wilcox - Conservation is important – for the sake of our health

 

- Ilana Yurkiewicz - When practicing on patients can have real consequences

 

- Melissa C. Lott - Supermoon and a Unique View on Energy

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - Lonely Planets: Hot Jupiters Are Isolated

 

- Scicurious - Depressed mice, gene therapy, and p11

 

- Austin Hay - USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Palau Water Supply

 

- Darren Naish - Thor Hanson’s Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle

 

- Alex Wild - Techdirt: photographs of nature shouldn’t be copyrighted

 

- Bora Zivkovic - ScienceOnline2012 – interview with Sarah Chow

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Welcome Information Culture – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogsandOpen Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Introducing: Audrey Quinn

 

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Call For Pitches To Nature, Guardian and Research Fortnight

 

- Ingrid Wickelgren - Psychiatrists Are About to Shift the Boundaries Between Sane and Insane

 

- Ferris Jabr - Field Tests for Revised Psychiatric Guide Reveal Reliability Problems for Two Major Diagnoses

 

- Mariette DiChristina - Champions of Science in Lancaster, Pa.

 

- Gary Stix - All Things Brain: Click on BrainFacts.org

 

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