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#SciAmBlogs Tuesday – Nobel Prizes, cell transport, Higgs boson, pumpkin spice, deadliest jellyfish, Sci-Fi ships, and more.

Check out the brand new Image of the Week! - Mark Jackson – The not-so-noble past of the Nobel Prizes   - Lawrence Rifkin – 10 Sublime Wonders of Science   - David Stipp – How Anti-Aging Drugs Could Help Medicare   - Ilana Yurkiewicz – Because I work in a hospital, I can’t help [...]

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Check out the brand new Image of the Week!

- Mark Jackson - The not-so-noble past of the Nobel Prizes

 


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- Lawrence Rifkin - 10 Sublime Wonders of Science

 

- David Stipp - How Anti-Aging Drugs Could Help Medicare

 

- Ilana Yurkiewicz - Because I work in a hospital, I can’t help you

 

- See Arr Oh - Pumpkin, hold the spice

 

- Becky Crew - The Smallest and Deadliest Kingslayer in the World

 

- Darren Naish - Leiosaurus: big heads, bold patterns

 

- Scicurious - Did Your Daddy Raise You to Sing Like That?

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Nobel complexity: How the prize for the Higgs can mislead about the actual workings of science

 

- Kyle Hill - What The Nerdiest Chart of Sci-Fi Ships Says About Our Dreams of SpaceandNerds and Words: Week 40

 

- Jesse Bering - The Lustful Human Animal: Cultural Differences in Sexual Harm and Consent

 

- Judy Stone - The Checklist Manifesto Meets Clinical Trials–SPIRIT13

 

- George Musser - Does Some Deeper Level of Physics Underlie Quantum Mechanics? An Interview with Nobelist Gerard ’t Hooft

 

- David Wogan - Surplus fossil fuels make it even harder to stay within our carbon budgetandDuke study finds radium and elevated salinity in treated oil and gas wastewater; highlights need for revised water quality regulations

 

- Brian Malow - The Higgs Boson Walks Into a Church…

 

- Alex Wild - Use this simple photographic trick to make tiny insect eggs look enormous

 

- S.E. Gould - Guest post: Bricks of knowledge

 

- Katherine Harmon Courage - Happy International Octopus Day!

 

- John Horgan - Could Nobel Prize for “God Particle” Be Last Gasp for Particle Physics?

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Physics Week in Review: October 5, 2013

 

- Jason G. Goldman - Photoblogging: More California Gulls

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Welcome the Popular Science blog network

 

- Seth Fletcher - 40 Years Later: Electric Cars and the OPEC Oil Embargo

 

- Michael Moyer - Besides Higgs, Who Might Get the Physics Nobel?

 

- Rachel Feltman - The Fingerprints the Higgs Leaves BehindandU.S. Falls Short in New Measure of Human Capital

 

- Christine Gorman - Researchers Win Nobel for Cell Transport System

 

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