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#SciAmBlogs Friday - Neighborhood Project, complexity, whale shark's brain, traffic apps, life around the dying star, and more.

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- Madhusudan Katti - Dragging humanity up the shining hills of a GIS map to create a virtuous planetary superorganism: A review of 'The Neighborhood Project'.

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Here’s your Boeing 777, now make me the next Prozac.


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- Jason G. Goldman - What Does A Whale Shark’s Brain Look Like? (And Why Should We Care?)

 

- Scott Huler - Beating Traffic with Trained Mammals

 

- Kelly Oakes - Could life arise around a dying star?

 

- Bonnie Swoger - What I want from tiny publisher websites

 

- Rebecca Priestley - Kermadecs Islands: snorkeling around Meyer Islands

 

- Anna Kuchment - Budding Scientist Projects: Raising a Monarch

 

- Bora Zivkovic - ScienceOnline2012 – interview with Helen Chappell

 

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Khalil’s Picks (17 August 2012)

 

- Scicurious - What has duct tape, beans, mylar pants, and rectal tubes? Today’s Friday Weird Science!

 

- Marissa Fessenden - Will the Candidates Tell Us about Their Policies on Pandemics and Biosecurity?

 

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