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#SciAmBlogs Wednesday – abortion, savants, roughage, musical elephants, new dwarf lemur, gastric bypass, and more.

- Samyukta Mullangi – The First Pass Effect   - Darold Treffert – My marvelous journey with incredible savants: What have I learned?

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- Samyukta Mullangi - The First Pass Effect

 

- Darold Treffert - My marvelous journey with incredible savants: What have I learned?


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- Hilda Bastian - Nutrient X prevents disease? Sorting the wheat from the bran

 

- Princess Ojiaku - The Secret (Musical) Life of ElephantsandNCCAM features musical training lecture

 

- Krystal D'Costa - What troubles us about unfaithful politicians?

 

- Darren Naish - It’s high time you were told about Psammodromus

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - What does mercury being liquid at room temperature have to do with Einstein’s theory of relativity?

 

- Glendon Mellow - Little Museum Sketches

 

- Kalliopi Monoyios - If Only Pinterest Would Show Me More Ads… Said No One, EVER.

 

- Anna Kuchment - Budding Scientist Projects: Caterpillar Olympics

 

- Becky Crew - Lavasoa Dwarf Lemur is Cuddly and New

 

- Cassie Rodenberg - Stats Say Cocaine Use Is in Decline…But Is It for the Poor?

 

- Ilana Yurkiewicz - But I remember you

 

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik - Fat Tuesday: Surgery for everyone! How science validated the gastric bypass.andIllusion of the Week: Here Comes the Sun

 

- Jesse Bering - (Ever)lasting Beauty: A Sexual Attraction to the Elderly

 

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