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#SciAmBlogs Friday - IgNobels, nanomedicine, PSA videos and more

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Have a great weekend. And here is something to read while resting:

 

- Scicurious - The 2011 IgNobel Prizes, now with Real Time Storify!!andIgNobel Prize WINNER: The beetle and the beer bottle, a tragic love story.andIgNobel Price WINNER: Safety in Smell.


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- Christine Ottery - Storify: Ecocide mock trial

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - What next for neutrinos?

 

- Julian Taub - The Smallest Revolution: 5 Recent Breakthroughs in Nanomedicine

 

- David Bressan - September 30, 1861: The First Feather

 

- John R. Platt - South China Tiger Conservation Program Mourns Big Cat Lost in Tragic Fight

 

- Cassie Rodenberg - Worst drug PSA videos and why we might still need them

 

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Evaluating scientific claims (or, do we have to take the scientist’s word for it?)

 

- Princess Ojiaku - SciMuse: Eva Amsen counting beats and cells

 

- Alex Wild - Great Images In NASA

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Important Deadline Alerts about Open Laboratory 2011 and ScienceOnline2012

 

 

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