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#SciAmBlogs Friday - 4-Color Theorem, Lost Language, Microscopic Biodiversity, Forest Elephants, Music Lessons, and more.

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- David Ropeik - The Messy (and Risky) Ways That Governments Try to Manage Risks

 

- Christina Agapakis - The Taxonomy of Wonder


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- Janet D. Stemwedel - The challenges of objectivity: lessons from anatomy.

 

- Krystal D'Costa - Modern Lessons From a Lost Language

 

- Katie Worth - Step into the Twilight Zone: Day 29, or God in Outer Space

 

- Evelyn Lamb - Having Fun with the 4-Color Theorem

 

- Hannah Waters - A Museum Chapel for Microscopic Biodiversity

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Why it’s hard to explain drug discovery to physicists

 

- Scott Huler - Reign of Error, Part Whatever

 

- Joanne Manaster - 3D Printing Promises to Change Everything

 

- John R. Platt - What Happens When Forest Elephants Are Wiped Out in an Ecosystem?

 

- Ingrid Wickelgren - Do Music Lessons Make You Smarter?

 

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Khalil’s Picks (1 March 2013)

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Physics Week in Review: March 1, 2013

 

- Scicurious - Friday Weird Science: Why eat tongue when you can eat testes?

 

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