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#SciAmBlogs Monday - Craigs List Avenue, Religion and Medical Care, Words With Rocks, Bad doctors, Futuristic Foods and more.

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Most important news of the day - we have a new blog! Check out Rosetta Stones!

Second, as it is Monday, we have a new Image of the Week.

I think these four posts had something to do with yesterday's date - you decide:


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- Darren Naish - Amphisbaenians and the origins of mammals

 

- Ferris Jabr - Neuroscientists: We Don’t Really Know What We Are Talking About, Either

 

- David Bressan - Strange Skull rewrites History of Man

 

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Who profits from killing Pluto?

 

And now for the serious stuff:

- Cassie Rodenberg - Strolling “Craigs List Avenue” for Drugs: Tatiana’s Story

 

- Judy Stone - Molecules to Medicine: When Religion Collides with Medical Care: Who decides what is right for you?

 

- Dana Hunter - Words With Rocks

 

- Ilana Yurkiewicz - “Bad doctors” and bad habits

 

- Christina Agapakis - Foods in the Year 2000

 

- Jennifer Frazer - Another Bat Die-Off Leads to Discovery of First European Ebola Virus Relative

 

- Scicurious - Can amphetamine and caffeine make you a slacker?

 

- Kalliopi Monoyios - Paleo Dream Jobs: Bringing Dinos Back to Life

 

- DNLee - Tackling student loan debt - Serve your way out of debt

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - Raw Footage From An Alien World

 

- John Horgan - Christof Koch on Free Will, the Singularity and the Quest to Crack Consciousness

 

- Carin Bondar - A Jason Mraz Tune Gets Geekified! Monday Music Video

 

- Jason G. Goldman - Sunday Photoblogging: Locals, Tourists, and Data

 

- Wayne Maddison - Spiders in Borneo: Scattered literature

 

- Elizabeth Iorns - Leading a Movement to Change the Pace of Scientific Research

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Anthropologists love Scientific AmericanandBest of March at A Blog Around The Clock

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Welcome Rosetta Stones – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogsandOpen Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

 

- Gary Stix - Psychological ‘Growth’ Through War and Disease: Sometimes It’s Just a Cruel Delusion

 

- Katherine Harmon - Routine Mammograms Lead to Overdiagnosis of Breast Cancer

 

- Kate Wong - Humans Tamed Fire by One Million Years Ago

 

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