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You'll need some time to catch up with all of the awesome weekend and Monday blogging, but first check out the new Image of the Week.

- Kalliopi Monoyios - Dinosaur feathers frozen in time

 


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- Bora Zivkovic - The Mighty Ant-LionandBIO101 – From Genes To Traits: How Genotype Affects Phenotype

 

- Jason G. Goldman - Sunday Photoblogging: Venice and Venice

 

- Christina Agapakis - Allergy Recapitulates Phylogeny

 

- Jennifer Jacquet - Back to School: Teaching Evolution

 

- Carin Bondar and Krystal D’Costa - ‘Imagine Science’ Lineup Announced…

 

- Glendon Mellow - Science-Art Scumble #24

 

- Bora Zivkovic - What is: #SciFund ChallengeandOpen Laboratory 2011 – submissions so far

 

- S.E. Gould - Synthetic DNA – now in yeast!

 

- Krystal D'Costa - A Robot in Every Home? We’re Getting CloseandImagine Science Film Festival Lineup Announced

 

- Robin Anne Smith - Synchronized swimming: patrolling for pollution with robotic fish

 

- Michelle Clement - Book review: Get Me Out

 

- David Bressan - September 19, 1991: The Iceman Natural History

 

- James Byrne - Scurvy Dogs – the ITLAPD edition

 

- Joanne Manaster - Monday Music Video: A Biochemical Cover of a Tune from Wicked!

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Science Notes – the annual magazine of the UC-Santa Cruz Science Communication program

 

- John Horgan - Michele Bachmann Wasn’t Totally Wrong about HPV Vaccines

 

- Melissa C. Lott and David Wogan - Waste-to-Energy: a mountain of trash, or a pile of energy?

 

- David Sloan Wilson - Evolution, as helping hand

 

- George Musser - Free Will and Quantum Clones: How Your Choices Today Affect the Universe at its Origin

 

- David Biello - What Questions Do You Have about Energy Efficiency?

 

 

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