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Bloggers were really busy today, especially with Halloween-themed posts. Check them out:
- Krystal D'Costa - Can’t Sleep—Clown Will Eat Me: Why Are We Afraid of Clowns?andHappy Halloween from the SciAm Blog Network!
- Darren Naish - Marsupial tapirs, diprotodontids, wombats and others: the vombatiform radiation, part II
- John Horgan - Why Gaddafi’s Death Doesn’t Fill Me With Joy
- Bora Zivkovic - Are Zombies nocturnal?andRevenge of the Zombifying WaspandBIO101 - Current Biological DiversityandScienceOnline participants’ interviewsand#scio11 – Standing Out: Marketing Yourself in Science
- Glendon Mellow - T. Rex or Treat!andDinosaurs & Robots rocking AnchorageandScience-Art Scumble #27
- Kelly Oakes - The Closest You’ll Ever Get to Being in SpaceandSpooky Nebulae: Ghosts, Snakes, Spiders and Cats Eyes
- Jennifer Ouellette - Blithe Spirits: Science Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts
- Melissa C. Lott - The Vampire (Loads) in Your House
- Carin Bondar - Trick or Treat?
- James Byrne - Spook house sporotrichosis
- Michael Moyer - Genetically Modified Mosquitos Mate with the Locals
- Cassie Rodenberg - Dear Dracula, Edward Cullen and Bill Compton: you have a substance abuse problemandIntroducing an addiction-free society of the future
- Layla Eplett - Talk “Dirty” To Me: Blood, Purity, and Cuisine
- David Bressan - Climate, Overpopulation & Environment – The Rapa Nui debate
- S.E. Gould - Modelling a werewolf epidemic
- Eric Michael Johnson - A Natural History of Vampires
- Fred Guterl - Why Innovation Won’t Defuse the Population Bomb
- Joseph Milton - Grow your own…Halloween outfit
- Jason G. Goldman - Real Life Werewolves? Dog Bites and Full MoonsandSunday Photoblogging: Crescent Moon and Sunset
- Michelle Clement - Links: Halloween Physiology
- Christie Wilcox - Your average, everyday zombie
- Jennifer Jacquet - Treats Not Tricks: Scientists Favor Research about Reward over Punishment
- Scicurious - The Evolution of Overconfidence, as explained by a shot of Jager and the boys from Jersey Shore
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