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#SciAmBlogs Monday - fractal bacteria, Kennedy's peace speech, eating dog food, one-eyed lizards, coffee against stress, PRISM, and more.

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- David Ropeik - Will “Pandora’s Promise” Start a New Environmental Movement for Nuclear Power?

 

- Scott Barry Kaufman - After the Show: The Many Faces of the Creative Performer

 

- Scicurious - Fighting stress with adenosine antagonists

 

- Felicity Muth - Left-eyed Lizards

 

- Caroline Smith - The UNESCO World Heritage Site Selection Process

 

- S.E. Gould - The fractal patterns of bacterial colonies

 

- Christina Agapakis - Fractal Bacteria

 

- Julie Hecht - How to make people eat dog food

 

- David Bressan - June 8, 1783: How the “Laki-eruptions” changed History

 

- Maria Konnikova - The ultimate judge and jury of journalistic responsibility: We, the readers

 

- Kate Clancy - No One Is Immune. I Am Not Immune.

 

- Darren Naish - Birding in Brazil: a view from suburban Rio de Janeiro

 

- Katherine Harmon - 8 Awesome Octopus Facts for World Oceans Day

 

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik - Neuroscience in Fiction: Fear and panic in Jaden and Will Smith’s “After Earth”andHappy Father’s Day to all Superdads

 

- Melissa C. Lott - Eastern Promise – Africa oil moving beyond the Big Five

 

- David Wogan - Finland looks to decarbonize with greater share of renewables and nuclear

 

- John Horgan - 50 Years Later, JFK “Peace Speech” Still Inspires–and Has Been Scientifically Validated!

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - JFK, nuclear weapons and the 1963 Peace Speech: How far have we come?

 

- Gary Stix - Who Will Be Behind the Next Wikileaks or PRISM? Let Us Know

 

- Melanie Tannenbaum - Bring Cognitive Science To The Streets!

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - Diary Of An Exhausted Scientist

 

- DNLee - #DispatchesDNLee: Tanzania from A to Z – Driving in Tanzania

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Physics Week in Review: June 8, 2013

 

- Kyle Hill - Science in Aggregate: Week 23

 

- Mark Fischetti - Surf Switzerland on World Ocean Day

 

- Bryan Bumgardner - Is It Possible to Keep Electronic Secrets?

 

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