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- Caitlin Contag - Your Next Vacation: Quarantine on Grosse Île

 

- Megan Scudellari - Born Again Textbooks

 

- Lawrence Rifkin - Amoxicillin–Humdrum? Or Miraculous?

 

- Jason G. Goldman - Eight Things You Didn’t Know About GroundhogsandSix Things You Didn’t Know About Ravens, Superbowl Edition

 

- Melody Dye - Yet Another Harrowing Story of White Collar Addiction

 

- Becky Crew - How the sharksucker got its suction disc

 

- Krystal D'Costa - This Is Your Brain on Disney

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Is the age of scientific genius over?

 

- John Horgan - Is Scientific Materialism “Almost Certainly False”?andThe End of Science Bandwagon Is Getting Crowded

 

- John R. Platt - New Zealand Farmer Helps Save Rare Penguin from ExtinctionandYaks Are Returning to Tibet, but Does Climate Change Pose Further Risks?

 

- Darren Naish - A new azhdarchid pterosaur: the view from Europe becomes ever more interestingandCrocodiles attack elephants

 

- Psi Wavefunction - The beauty of sewage

 

- David Bressan - Geomorphologic Groundhog Day

 

- Anne-Marie Hodge - Laikipia Plateau: I have arrived

 

- Katie Worth - Step into the Twilight Zone: Day 1

 

- Malcolm Clark - Kermadec Trench: The Cosmopolitan RattailandKermadec Trench: Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle…

 

- Alan Jamieson - Kermadec Trench: The deep-water wombleandKermadec Trench: A Turn for the Worse

 

- S.E. Gould - The Carnival of Evolution: World Travel Edition!

 

- Dana Hunter - A Survivor’s Tale: “Half the mountain exploding over our heads”

 

- Cassie Rodenberg - Speedballing: Why Crack Cocaine and Heroin are Mixed

 

- Anna Kuchment - Students with Autism Gravitate Toward STEM Majors

 

- DNLee - #Scio13 Diversity Session: North Carolina offers support to LGBT studentsandBlack Family Awareness Week celebrates STEM achievement and interests during Black History Month

 

- Scicurious - Scicurious Guest Writer! Sleight of Hand, Sleight of Mind: Illusions, Delusions and the Immune SystemandFriday Weird Science: Sperm tradingandScio13 WrapUp: Blogging for the Long Haul

 

- Kate Clancy - Diversity in Science Carnival: Identity Edition

 

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Astrobites: Students Making Astrophysics AccessibleandKhalil’s Picks (1 February 2013)

 

- Glendon Mellow - SciArt at ScienceOnline 2013 – the Digital GalleryandWant to find more artists, ScienceOnline?

 

- Kalliopi Monoyios - One Man’s Poo is Another Man’s PhD

 

- Melissa C. Lott - Fuel Cell Vehicles Coming Off the Bench? Maybe. Maybe Not.andAiming High – Secretary Chu Leaving Energy Department

 

- David Wogan - Housekeeping note on comments

 

- Kelly Oakes - What Voyager saw: a journey in photographs #scio13

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Quantum Shorts: Winners of the 2012 Competition

 

- Carin Bondar - Wild Sex Season 2 Starts off with a Bang (Pun Intended)…andWelcome to SciAm Cinema! A New Monthly Video Series at Scientific American

 

- Joanne Manaster - Cyberscreen Film Festival Winners (in Brief)andAcoustically Levitating Caprese Salad

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Best of January at A Blog Around The Clock

 

- Larry Greenemeier - Scientists Use 3-D Printer to Speed Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research

 

- Michael Moyer - Watch this Amazing 12-Year-Old Launch a Hello Kitty into Space

 

- Mariette DiChristina - President Obama Awards National Medals of Science and Technology at the White House

 

- David Biello - What Will Steven Chu’s Energy Legacy Be?

 

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