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Check out the brand new Image of the Week!   - Elizabeth L. Cohen – TV So Good It Hurts: The Psychology of Watching Breaking Bad   - Olaf Woldan – Biology in the Big Apple: Surveying the Wildlife of Central Park   - Alexandra Branscombe – Crowdfunding: What’s in It for Scientists?

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Check out the brand new Image of the Week!

 

- Elizabeth L. Cohen - TV So Good It Hurts: The Psychology of Watching Breaking Bad


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- Olaf Woldan - Biology in the Big Apple: Surveying the Wildlife of Central Park

 

- Alexandra Branscombe - Crowdfunding: What’s in It for Scientists?

 

- Markus Pössel - A trip down read-only memory lane with William Kahan

 

- Beatrice Lugger - Balance – How to develop a research career and a growing family?

 

- Julianne Wyrick - Is your nose making you overeat?

 

- Patrick Mustain - The Marketing Diet: Want to lose weight? Give up Marketing.

 

- Christina Agapakis - DNA stories

 

- Scicurious - Practice Spinning, Tiny Dancer

 

- George Musser - When the Large Hadron Collider Is Too Small

 

- Evelyn Lamb - Can a Closed Set Be Open? Can an Open Set Be Closed? When Math and Language Collide

 

- Krystal D'Costa - A match meant to be? Social media and sports

 

- Princess Ojiaku - What makes music pleasurable?

 

- Jennifer Frazer - The Private Life of Plankton — in HD

 

- Dana Hunter - A Volcano Changes Everything

 

- Julie Hecht - A New Flock of Researchers: Citizen Scientists in Animal BehaviorandDog-Eared Reading (Volume 1)

 

- David Bressan - Granite Wars – Episode I: Fire & Water

 

- Cassie Rodenberg - Drugs in the Dirt: Hygiene for the Street Drug UserandFollowing Love, or the Rise of PainkillersandDelusions of Power

 

- Katherine Harmon Courage - No Shots for the Octopus, Its Immune System Doesn’t Remember

 

- Kate Clancy - Numbness, Vulnerability, Oppression, Privilege on the Tenure Track

 

- Janet D. Stemwedel - What do we owe you, and who’s “we” anyway? Obligations of scientists (part 1)

 

- David Wogan - Treating climate change like any other budget issue

 

- Kalliopi Monoyios - How Fossil Fish Make Front-Page NewsandPutting the Illustrations Before the Text

 

- Katie McKissick - Electrons are Frustrating

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - In surprise advance announcement, 2013 Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Higgs boson

 

- Jason G. Goldman - Photoblogging: Seagull in Flight

 

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik - Sight and Sound: An Evening with John Williams and Steven Spielberg

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Physics Week in Review: September 28, 2013

 

- Kyle Hill - Nerds and Words: Week 39

 

- Seth Fletcher - Will We Accept Eye-Tracking Gadgets?

 

- Katherine Harmon Courage - Health-Insurance Exchanges Open Tomorrow: Here’s What You Need to Know

 

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