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#SciAmBlogs Monday - eating healthfully, DSM-5, polyploidy, fecal transplants, non-identical twins, and more.

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- Patrick Mustain - Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully. Sincerely, the Food Industry

 


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- Gayle Sulik - Angelina Jolie and the One Percent

 

- Kacy Karlen - Sharing Science Research in the Age of Social Media

 

- Jeffrey A. Lieberman - DSM-5: Caught Between Mental Illness Stigma and Anti-Psychiatry Prejudice

 

- Jim Haw - USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: The 2013 Guam and Palau Expedition Begins

 

- Maureen McCarthy - Chimps in Uganda: Resilience

 

- Jennifer Frazer - For Plants, Polyploidy Is Not a Four-Letter Word

 

- Julie Hecht - Dogs and Cats in the Home: Happiness for All?

 

- Scicurious - Becoming an individual twin isn't about genetics or environment, but how you experience themandFriday Weird Science: What’s your fart volume?

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Cancer, genomics and technological solutionism: A time to be wary

 

- Ferris Jabr - Why Feeling Anxious About a Vaccine Makes It More Effective (And Other Benefits of Short-Term Stress)

 

- Judy Stone - The s**t hits the fan – FDA, INDs, and fecal microbiota transplants

 

- Dana Hunter - 33 Years Ago Today…

 

- Kyle Hill - The Overwhelming Odds Of Climate ChangeandScience in Aggregate: Week 20

 

- Katherine Harmon - Unusual Offshore Octopods: The See-Through “Glass” Octopus [Video]

 

- Katie McKissick - Self-Publishing Tools for Science Artists

 

- Christina Agapakis - A Beautiful Fungus Graveyard

 

- John R. Platt - Deadly Snakes, Ugly Critters, Leonardo DiCaprio and Other Links from the Brink

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Physics Week in Review: May 18, 2013

 

- John Matson - See Mercury, Venus and Jupiter in Tightest Night Sky Cluster until 2026

 

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