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#SciAmBlogs Monday - dwarf planets, Indiana trilobites, antifreeze octopus blood, giant extinct vampire bats, and more.

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- Yonatan Zunger - You haven’t so much lost a planet, as gained five dwarves…

 

- Psi Wavefunction - Drawing trilobites, and the life of Midwestern coral reefs


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- Scicurious - When feeling anxious, it really does help to get more sleepandSuffering from Neurohype? We need some Neuronuance.

 

- S.E. Gould - How bacteria get inside your house

 

- Darren Naish - What did giant extinct vampire bats eat?

 

- Ferris Jabr - Is Sugar Really Toxic? Sifting Through the Evidence

 

- Scott Barry Kaufman - In Defense of Intelligent Testing

 

- Deborah Gordon - Fossil Fuels – A New Normal

 

- Robert Fares - House Cuts Clean Energy Funding, Dragging Down An Entire Community Of American Innovators

 

- Katherine Harmon - Octopuses Survive Sub-Zero Temps Thanks to Specialized Blue Blood

 

- Adam Waytz - In Memoriam: Dan Wegner

 

- Kalliopi Monoyios - Illustrated Books Are For Kids, Right? Nah.

 

- DNLee - #DispatchesDNLee back on Oklahoma Research Grind & on the Road

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Physics Week in Review: July 13, 2013

 

- Jason G. Goldman - Photoblogging: A Snow-Covered Mountain for a Hot Summer Day

 

- Christopher Crockett - Satellite Gets First Look at Sun’s Tail

 

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