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- Ricki Lewis - Is Future-Use DNA Sampling Ethical?

 

- Anjana Ramnath - Women in Science in Developing Countries

 

- Jason G. Goldman - Feeling Snappy? Measuring Personality in Hermit Crabs

 

- Ben Linhoff - Following the Ice: Is this Global Warming?

 

- Melissa Gaskill - Counting Fish: Gulf of Mexico Artificial Reef Survey

 

- Rose Eveleth - You wanted to know: who are these scientists? Introducing: Ben Van Mooy (sort of)andYou wanted to know: who are these scientists?

 

- Bonnie Swoger - How to classify science news stories?

 

- John Horgan - Can the Turing Test Help Us Know Whether a Machine Is Really Thinking?

 

- John R. Platt - An Invasive Plant Is Killing Wombats in Australia

 

- Darren Naish - Marsupial ‘dogs’, ‘bears’, ‘sabre-tooths’ and ‘weasels’ of island South America: meet the borhyaenoids

 

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Why Writers Should Be On Google+

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Bora’s Picks (July 13th, 2012)

 

- David Wogan - NASA satellites show extent of power outages after the “derecho”

 

- William H. Schmidt and Curtis C. McKnight - Math Teachers Feel They’re Poorly Prepared

 

- Bora Zivkovic - ScienceOnline2012 – interview with Bug GirlandThe Scienceblogging Weekly (July 13th, 2012)

 

- Gabriel Mecklenburg and Daniel Perez - What is: Marblar

 

- Katherine Harmon - For Unendowed Fish, A Fake Dinner Leads to Sex

 

- Kate Wong - Clovis People Were Not Alone During Early Colonization of the AmericasandCT Scans Reveal Early Human Fossils Inside Rock

 

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