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#SciAmBlogs Monday – eugenics, suicide, citing data, empathy, wormholes, horse dung fungus, how dogs drink, optogenetics, and more.

I am back, so evening summaries are back as well. Don’t miss last week’s Image of the Week, this week’s Image of the Week and last week’s Video of the Week.

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I am back, so evening summaries are back as well.

Don't miss last week's Image of the Week, this week's Image of the Week and last week's Video of the Week.

- Nathaniel Comfort - Is Individuality the Savior of Eugenics?


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- Tim Lahey - Should We Abide by a Suicidal Patient’s Wishes?

 

- Maria Thompson - A “Nobel” Cause

 

- Paige Brown - Understanding Why Science Research is Translated into News: A Survey for Journalists, Bloggers

 

- Bob Grumman - M@h*(pOet)?ica – PlayDay, Part One

 

- Clayton Aldern - Mnemodystopia: A Little Context

 

- Julie Hecht - Drinking: An Acrobatic Tongue Act

 

- Scicurious - Optogenetics: Light my Fire? Or Totally Lame?

 

- Felicity Muth - Crickets dance differently with an audience

 

- Scott Barry Kaufman - 23 Signs You’re Secretly a Narcissist Masquerading as a Sensitive IntrovertandIQ Test Controversies Persist

 

- Darren Naish - Because caecilians are important

 

- Evelyn Lamb - The Most Breathtaking Video of the Weather You’ll Watch This Week

 

- Jennifer Frazer - Wonderful Things: The Hidden Beauty of the Horse Dung Fungus

 

- Bonnie Swoger - Citing data (without tearing your hair out)

 

- Scott Huler - 6 things about solar PV, from one who actually knows

 

- David Wogan - In Arromanches, the artificial harbor that fed the Allied invasion of Normandy still livesandWatch this stunning video of Greenland’s ice sheet

 

- Melissa C. Lott - Is the Tesla Model S the safest car ever made?andPhoto Friday: The pessimist complains about the wind…the realist adjusts the sails.

 

- Sam Illingworth - Arctic Methane: Flight Friday 16th AMandArctic Methane: Flight Saturday 17th AMandArctic Methane: Flight Sunday 18th AM

 

- Michelle Cain - Arctic Methane: Flight Friday 16th PMandArctic Methane: Flight Saturday 17th PMandArctic Methane: Flight Sunday 18th PM

 

- Jennifer Muller - Arctic Methane: Flight Monday 19th AM/PM: Going home…

 

- Alex Wild - Digital Photo Processing: A Before and AfterandAn Aphid Gets Egged

 

- John R. Platt - World’s Largest Owl Needs Equally Large Trees and Forests (But It’s More Complex Than That)

 

- David Bressan - August 21, 1986: The Lake Nyos Catastrophe

 

- Katie McKissick - What Vaccine Campaigns Can Learn from the Gay Rights Movement

 

- Kalliopi Monoyios - We’re All Minorities Compared To These Manhattan Residents

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Nuclear vs renewables: A tale of disparities.andDeconstructing John Miller’s arguments against nuclear energy in the New York Times

 

- Jamil Zaki - Empathy as a choice 3: "Growing" empathy

 

- Gary Stix - The Straight Dope: A Q&A with the Prof behind the Good Science in Breaking Bad

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - Earth Waves To Saturn: The Pictures

 

- Becky Crew - Wandering Ponies August: Puffin Census, Monster Pyrosomes, an Unfortunate Crab Moustache and more

 

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik - The Anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s Death: An Illusion TributeandFeeling Persecuted? You May Be Delusional.andIllusion of the Week: A Hidden Message for Children

- Joanne Manaster - A Chat with Biologist Edward O. Wilson on SciAm’s 168th Anniversary

 

- Dana Hunter - Drooling Now. Could Someone Please Bring Me a Napkin?

 

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Khalil’s Picks (23 August 2013)

 

- Jason G. Goldman - Photoblogging: Perfectly Framed Wallaby

 

- Kyle Hill - Nerds and Words: Week 34

 

- DNLee - The Tweet Recap of NABJ Science Journalism 101

 

- Eric R. Olson - ‘Singing Stars’ Reveal Their Secrets, and More – The Countdown, Episode 29

 

- Michael Moyer - Wormholes May Save Physics From Black Hole Infernos

 

- Christine Gorman - Does My BMI Make Me Look Fat?

 

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