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#SciAmBlogs Thursday - square foot over a year, baboons, Casimir Effect, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Eld s deer and more.

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A day late, but awesome - new Video of the Week!

- David Haskell - The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Sewanee’s Forest

 


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- Emily Cramer - From Babies to Baboons: One Woman’s Path to Success

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Quantum Casimir Effect Inspires Indie FilmmakersandLHC’s Surprise Visitor: Kern the Globe-Trotting Gnome

 

- Ilana Yurkiewicz - In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day: the misuse and abuse of the Nazi analogy in modern bioethics

 

- Darren Naish - Eld’s deer: endangered, persisting in fragmented populations, and morphologically weird… but it wasn’t always so

 

- Maria Konnikova - The Storytelling Animal: A Conversation with Jonathan Gottschall

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Introducing: Nadia Drake

 

- John R. Platt - Geese May Be Helping to Spread Frog-Killing Fungus

 

- Alex Wild - The poor man’s macro kit: extension tubes

 

- Wayne Maddison - Spiders in Borneo: Top ten animal encounters

 

- David Ginsburg and Jim Haw - USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Moving Forward to Guam and Palau 2012

 

- Krystal D'Costa - Editor's Selections: Tool use, Parasitic siblings, Facial expressions, Settlers, and Gaslighting

 

- Mariette DiChristina - Whale.FM: Where Citizen Science, Whale Songs, and Education Come Together

 

- Gary Stix - Ramachandran’s Lab Looks Into Whether You Can Be a Man in the Morning and a Woman at Night

 

- Kate Wong - Why Chimpanzees Kill

 

- Mark Fischetti - Earth Day 2012: The Best and Worst Pronouncements

 

- Michael Moyer - Slow-Motion Mayhem Video Sets Flour Aflame [video]

 

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