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#SciAmBlogs Monday - food recycling, lab dissections, suicide rise, mothers, butterflies, mosses, Hadfield, #400ppm, and more.

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- Layla Eplett - Second Helpings: Recycling Cairo’s Food Waste

 

- Rob Dunn - What is Wrong With Dissections? Hint, it is Not What You Think.


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- Samyukta Mullangi - ‘All I really want to do is sleep’

 

- Melanie Tannenbaum - The Incredible Importance of Mom

 

- S.E. Gould - Butterfly watch: multi-generational migrations

 

- Jennifer Frazer - Mosses Make Two Different Plants From the Same Genome, and a Single Gene Can Make the Difference

 

- Scicurious - Growing old with NF-kB

 

- Caleb Scharf - Humans Bring On Many Changes, Most Are Far From Painless

 

- David Bressan - May 12, 1931: Alfred Wegener’s last Journey

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Why the free market is like quantum mechanics (and both are unrealistic constructs)

 

- Scott Barry Kaufman - One Alien's Report on the Current State of Education on Earth

 

- Darren Naish - In pursuit of the Rook

 

- Alex Wild - Ants and the problem of impostor mothers

 

- Joanne Manaster - Top 10 Commander Chris Hadfield Videos from the ISS!andMonday Music Video: Lab Rap Battle

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Idol Tweets: Mapping the Social Space with TwitterandPhysics Week in Review: May 11, 2013

 

- Katherine Harmon - Unusual Offshore Octopods: More (Octopus) Suckers Born Every Minute in Cold Water

 

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik - Ticklish laughter tickles your brainandNeuroscience in Fiction: Harlan Ellison’s “I have no mouth and I must scream”

 

- John R. Platt - Desperately Seeking Cichlid: Fish Species Down to Last 3 Males, No Known FemalesandMassacred Elephants, Found Frogs and Other Links from the Brink

 

- DNLee - Updates on #KieraWilmot, Legal Fund created

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Quick updates: Science Studio, travel and quotes.

 

- Larry Greenemeier - Video Game to Help Kids Fight Cancer

 

- John Matson - Astronaut Chris Hadfield Covers David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” in Space [Video]

 

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