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#SciAmBlogs Tuesday – n-body orbits, talking dogs, Manning, Wiener, blog comments, debunking myths, and more.

- Shannon Palus – 5 GIFs of n-body orbits   - Julie Hecht – How to Teach Language to Dogs   - John R. Platt – Rare Naked Ladies Crocus Infected with Even Rarer Smutty Fungus   - Robynne Boyd – Summertime and the Dams Come Down   - David Bressan – July 30, 1920: [...]

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- Shannon Palus - 5 GIFs of n-body orbits

 

- Julie Hecht - How to Teach Language to Dogs


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- John R. Platt - Rare Naked Ladies Crocus Infected with Even Rarer Smutty Fungus

 

- Robynne Boyd - Summertime and the Dams Come Down

 

- David Bressan - July 30, 1920: Marie Tharp, the Women who discovered the Backbone of Earth

 

- Cassie Rodenberg - First Drug Charge Leaves a Man on the Run

 

- Krystal D'Costa - Don’t read the comments! (Why do we read the online comments when we know they’ll be bad?)

 

- Melanie Tannenbaum - Weiner’s Wiener? Too perfect to be a coincidence.

 

- Maureen McCarthy - Chimps in Uganda: A Visit with Jane Goodall

 

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik - The Neural Magic of Hypnotic Suggestion

 

- Jesse Bering - Paraphilic Infantalism: The Case of the Old Baby

 

- Glendon Mellow - The Color of B1000D

 

- DNLee - Science, Social Media & Diversity at the Animal Behavior Society Meeting #2013ABS

 

- Psi Wavefunction - Random image

 

- The Editors - Urban Lore Debunked in New eBook: Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths

 

- Mark Fischetti - More Carbon Emissions = Less Global Warming?

 

- Bryan Bumgardner - Is Bradley Manning Guilty or Innocent?

 

- Christine Gorman - Why Do You Exercise?

 

- Kate Wong - Incas Intoxicated Sacrificial Children in Preparation for Death

 

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