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#SciAmBlogs Monday - Titanic break-up, invention of modern physics, origin of origins, hungry hyenas hunting, depressing burger, and more.

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Welcome back. I hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend.

I will be in Washington DC over the next few days, at TEDMED, so am not sure if and when I will be able to do the nightly links - but I'll try my best. I have scheduled in advance a lot of posts for the Guest Blog, Expeditions, The SA Incubator and more, so my absence will be inconspicuous, I hope.

As it is Monday, here is the brand new Image of the Week.


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- Richard Woytowich - How did Titanic really break up?

 

- Gennady Gorelik - How the Modern Physics was invented in the 17th century, part 2: source of fundamental lawsandHow the Modern Physics was invented in the 17th century, part 3: Why Galileo didn’t discover universal gravitation?

 

- Maria Konnikova - Hunters of Myths: Why Our Brains Love Origins

 

- Jason G. Goldman - Hyenas Give Up Eating Garbage for Lent, Hunt Donkeys Instead

 

- Scicurious - Unhand that burger! It’ll only make you depressed.

 

- Dana Hunter - A Landscape in a Hand Sample: “Of Fire”

 

- Glendon Mellow - Star Map by Diana Sudyka

 

- Darren Naish - Ryan et al.’s New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: a review

 

- Kate Clancy - American Association of Physical Anthropology Meetings this week: Portland, Oregon

 

- Wayne Maddison - Spiders in Borneo: Lambir Hills

 

- John Horgan - Will This Post Make Sam Harris Change His Mind About Free Will?

 

- Bora Zivkovic - ScienceOnline2012 – interview with Tanya LewisandSome hypotheses about a possible connection between malaria and jet-lagandSciencey events over the next few weeks

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Introducing #SciAmBlogs bloggers: Dana HunterandOpen Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

 

- Katherine Harmon - Maternal Diabetes, Obesity During Pregnancy Might Raise Child’s Risk for Developmental Disorders

 

- Ferris Jabr - Can You Predict a Monkey’s Social Status by Looking at Its Genes?

 

- Daisy Yuhas - Google Doodle’s Galloping Steed Commemorates Pioneering Photographer Edward Muybridge

 

- Philip Yam - When Science and Politics Mix: Fang Lizhi (1936–2012)

 

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