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#SciAmBlogs Monday - IgNobels, medical research funding, gender bias in science, flesh-eating bacteria, bioluminescing fungi, and more.

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- Jalees Rehman - Can the Source of Funding for Medical Research Affect the Results?

 


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- Bob Grumman - M@h*(pOet)?ica – Louis Zukofsky’s Integral

 

- Marc Kuchner - We Are All Politicians Now: Science Communication and the Romney 47% Video

 

- Ilana Yurkiewicz - Study shows gender bias in science is real. Here’s why it matters.

 

- Christie Wilcox - Are lower pesticide residues a good reason to buy organic? Probably not.

 

- Becky Crew - Monsters in a barrel, sea slugs and the art of (man-o) war

 

- Kevin Zelnio - Bandwidth and Open Access in Developing Countries

 

- Luis Morgado - Mount Kinabalu: Green Stars of the Forest

 

- Andy Wang - Flesh-eating bacteria

 

- Bora Zivkovic - #sci4hels – ‘Killer’ science journalists of the future ready to take over the world!

 

- Scicurious - The IgNobel Prize in Literature: I think we need another report.andIgNobel Peace Prize: Ammo is a girl’s best friend?andIgnobel Prize Winner: Lean a little to the left, do I look shorter to you?

 

- Darren Naish - In pursuit of Early Cretaceous crocodyliforms in southern England: ode to Goniopholididae

 

- DNLee - #DispatchesDNLee: Headed Home

 

- Kalliopi Monoyios - SciArt of the Day: Arach-attack!

 

- Glendon Mellow - SciArt of the Day: Cretaceous Critter Coffee Co.andSciArt of the Day: The Painting that Inspired Sagan’s COSMOS

 

- Jennifer Frazer - Science Online 2012: Pirate Branding, Life as a Sperm, and Scheming Fireflies

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Open Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

 

- Dana Hunter - A Few Questions About Comments

 

- Philip Yam - Fox News Distorts Climate Science; in Other News, the Pope Is Catholic

 

- Kate Wong - In Prehistoric Britain Cannibalism Was Practical and Ritualistic

 

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