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#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - subduction zone, deafening birdsong, spider silk, gravitational mesolensing, and more.

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- Dana Hunter - Mélange et Trois: A Trip Across Subduction Zone Madness

 

- Garth Sundem - A Fun DIY Science Goodie: How To Get a Positive Expected Rate of Return on a Lottery Ticket


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- Scicurious - Deafening Birdsong

 

- Jason G. Goldman - Music and Memory: Robert Sherman, Voice of Your Childhood, Dies at 86 and Editor’s Selections: LinkedIn, Caffeine for Night Owls, and Seeing Smells

 

- Alex Wild - The US Geological Survey Has Photographs That Rock

 

- DNLee - Chemical relaxers, fibroids and black women: how it ALL started and Happy International Women’s Day

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Along Came a Spider: The Wonders of Spider Silk

 

- Darren Naish - The gigantic, shark-toothed, small-flippered, long-bodied, sea-going predatory lizard that is Hainosaurus

 

- S.E. Gould - Exploring inside cells – in 3D!

 

- Robynne Boyd - Talkin’ Trash: the Quick and Dirty on Recycling

 

- John R. Platt - Video: 2 Rhinos Fight for Life after Their Horns Are Chopped Off

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - Gravitational Mesolensing And The Hunt For Exoplanets

 

- James Byrne - Disease Prone on FiSTChat!

 

- SciBarCamb organisers - What is: SciBarCamb?

 

- Matt Salzberg - What is: Petridish.org?

 

- John Matson - One Year after Fukushima: Could It Happen in the U.S.?

 

- Sarah Fecht - Combination of “Deaf and Mute” May Have Neural Underpinnings

 

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