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#SciAmBlogs Monday - health insurance, elephant shrews, Bloomsday, night noise, optogenetics, fathers, and more.

See our new Image of the Week!- Nortin M. Hadler and Janet Schwartz - The health insurance Shell Game - Dorian Rolston - Night Noise: What a Sleeping Brain Hears - Gary Stix - Dragonflies with Backpacks May Advance the Science of Prey Capture - Scicurious - OCD and Optogenetics: Lighting the brain up to shut a behavior down - Kelly Oakes - Good morning Gliese 526, the Earth says hello - Melanie Tannenbaum - Happy Father’s Day!...

STAFFJune 17, 2013 — Bora Zivkovic
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#SciAmBlogs Friday - Superman, flags and taxes, behavioral economics, lost cousins of Homo sapiens, and more.

- E. Paul Zehr - The Man of Steel, Myostatin, and Super-Strength - Jag Bhalla - Better Behaved Behavioral Models - Kyle Hill - 10 Sciencey Stats on the Man of Steel - Paige Minteer - The lost cousins of Homo sapiens in Asia and the South Pacific - Judy Stone - Minnesota Attorney General Confirms They Did Not Exonerate UMN in Markingson Death - Scott Huler - Flags and Taxes - Melissa C...

STAFFJune 14, 2013 — Bora Zivkovic
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#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - GMO potato, cooperative genes, shark tourism, itsy bitsy spiders, magpie family, and more.

- Tiffany Stecker - You say potato, I say double stranded RNA - Jag Bhalla - Selfish Genes Also Must Cooperate - Psi Wavefunction - Squatters of the microbial world: foram-in-a-foram - Brenna Schneider - An interconnected environment and economy- Shark tourism in Palau - Becky Crew - Two new species of Chinese spider are positively weeny - Christina Agapakis - Creation and Synthetic Biology: Book Review - David Wogan - In Texas electrical grid, natural gas and renewables complement each other - Khalil A...

STAFFJune 12, 2013 — Bora Zivkovic
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#SciAmBlogs Tuesday - pig intelligence, chimp protection, visual journalism, malarial mosquitoes, email signatures, and more.

- Mark Farmer - Breaking bad with breakbone fever - Chelluri Sastri - Continuous and Discrete - Felicity Muth - Are pigs stupid? Perhaps they’re just stressed - Krystal D'Costa - Why Are We Signing Our Emails With “Thank You?” - Michael Young and David Ginsburg - Before and After the Storm: The Impacts of Typhoon Bopha on Palauan Reefs - Bora Zivkovic - Introducing: Rebecca Burton - Evelyn Lamb - Mathematics, Live: A Conversation with Laura DeMarco and Amie Wilkinson - Katie McKissick - Gorgeous Microscopy and Visual Journalism - John R...

STAFFJune 11, 2013 — Bora Zivkovic
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#SciAmBlogs Friday - honeybees, happiness, mystery birds, summer reading, NSA, and more.

- Matina Donaldson-Matasci - Honey bees and monoculture: nothing to dance about - David L. Levine - Innovation and Collaboration Are Keys to Success in the Baltic Region - Jag Bhalla - Happiness Should Be A Verb - Amelia Moura - The Senkaku/Diaoyu Island Dispute in the East China Sea - Darren Naish - ‘Mystery’ birds from Brazil - Gary Stix - Brie and Milbenkäse Are the New “Lab Rats” for Microbiologists - Khalil A...

STAFFJune 7, 2013 — Bora Zivkovic
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#SciAmBlogs Thursday - hearing aids, Thor's Hammer, Seabees, Quad Map, nuclear power, glowing octopus, and more.

- David G. Myers - Hearing Aids Can Serve a Second Purpose—As Wireless Speakers - Jennifer Ouellette - The Physics of Thor’s Hammer Immortalized in Comic Form - Mary Karmelek - “We Build, We Fight”: The Role of the Seabees in the Invasion of Normandy - Dana Hunter - Epic Excitement: Reading Quad Map Documentation - Nicholas Evans and Ashutosh Jogalekar - Promise or problem?...

STAFFJune 6, 2013 — Bora Zivkovic
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#SciAmBlogs Tuesday - eating insects, maternal employment, sperm-eating squid, Pandora s Promise", Squamozoic, and more

Check out the new Image of the Week!- Layla Eplett - Rub A Dub Dub, Is It Time To Eat Grubs? - Jai Ranganathan - Scientists: do outreach or your science dies - Becky Crew - Australian squids eat sperm for better bodies and babies - Melanie Tannenbaum - Fox News Fact Check: Are studies on maternal employment all tinged with political bias? - John R...

STAFFJune 4, 2013 — Bora Zivkovic

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