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#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - physics education, extinct scaly anteater, caloric restriction, geologic diagram, youth brain, and more.

Wednesday, ergo , time for the new Video of the Week.- Tony Rothman - Look East, Young Man - Becky Crew - Ancient digging mammal is a ‘scaly anteater’ relative - Gary Stix - Evolution Did Not Snap the Brain Together like LEGOS and Big Hint That Eating A Lot Less Won’t Let You Live Longer - Ferris Jabr - The Neuroscience of Twenty-Somethings - Dana Hunter - How Would You Like to Take a Hike Across a Geologic Diagram? - DNLee - #DispatchesDNLee: Adjusting to the time difference - John R...

STAFFAugust 29, 2012 — Bora Zivkovic
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#SciAmBlogs Thursday - 19th century Citizen Science, dino parasites, corals on oil rigs, singing gibbons, and more

- Caren Cooper - Retro Science – Part 1 - Darren Naish - The war on parasites: the pigeon’s eye view, the oviraptorosaur’s eye view - Jennifer Frazer - Deep Sea Coral Clings to Oil Platform at Record Gulf Depth - Gary Stix - A Robot Helps Listen In on Brain Cell Chatter - Glendon Mellow - Surly Amy and the Charms of Reason - Khalil A...

STAFFAugust 23, 2012 — Bora Zivkovic
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#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - Hospital outbreak, stick insects, consciousness, West Nile, pneumatic transit, and more.

Yup, Wednesday, time for a brand new Video of the Week!- Ricki Lewis - Like a Game of Clue, Genomics Tracks Outbreak, Revealing Evolution in Action - Steven Ross Pomeroy - From STEM to STEAM: Science and Art Go Hand-in-Hand - Becky Crew - Lord Howe Island stick insects are going home - Ferris Jabr - Does Self-Awareness Require a Complex Brain? - Christie Wilcox - Is Climate Change To Blame For This Year’s West Nile Outbreak? - Carin Bondar - What Was Scientific American Reporting About in 1870?...

STAFFAugust 22, 2012 — Bora Zivkovic
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#SciAmBlogs Monday - textbook Mendel, DNA storage, Martians, counterfeit drugs, beer science, anorexia and obesity, and more.

Monday - time for the new Image of the Week!- Ricki Lewis - Hidden Meanings in Our Genomes – And What To Do With Mendel - Christina Agapakis - Communicating with Aliens through DNA - David Bressan - Meet the Martians - Judy Stone - Counterfeit Drugs: a Deadly Problem - Scicurious - Anorexia and Obesity: opposite sides of the reward coin? - Ilana Yurkiewicz - The downside of politicians talking about science - Kevin Zelnio - The Making of a Brewmaster, 200 MYA - David Wogan - Living with the Nest #2 – the daily energy summary and why other appliances should act like the Nest - DNLee - #DispathesDNLee: Tanzania from A to Z – Archaeology and What’s this in my Backyard?...

STAFFAugust 20, 2012 — Bora Zivkovic

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    Budding Scientist

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    Commentary invited by editors of Scientific American

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    Opinion, arguments & analyses from guest experts and from the editors of Scientific American

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    Mathematics: learning it, doing it, celebrating it.

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    Adventures in the good science of rock-breaking.

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    A Blog About the Weird Wonderfulness of Life on Earth

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    Exploring and celebrating diversity in science.

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