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#SciAmBlogs Monday - hypocretin, terrifying worm, Jane Austen, bad zoos, #2012SVP, l Aquila Verdict, bacterial teams, dung beetles, and more.

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- Scicurious - Sleeping Beauty: magic or hypocretin?

 


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- Becky Crew - Eunice aphroditois is rainbow, terrifying

 

- Maria Konnikova - What Jane Austen can teach us about how the brain pays attention

 

- Cassie Rodenberg - Anger, Crack and Duty: The Haze of Street Emotion

 

- Kevin Zelnio - Sweden Journal: Tragedies at the Zoos

 

- Bora Zivkovic - #2012SVP – what do Vertebrate Paleontologists talk about?

 

- Christina Agapakis - Our Smell Universe

 

- Robynne Boyd - Will Sea Level Rise Make the Final Debate?

 

- David Ropeik - The l’Aquila Verdict. A Judgment Not Against Science, but Against A Failure of Science Communication

 

- Bob Grumman - M@h*(pOet)?ica – Scott Helmes

 

- Darren Naish - Zihlman’s ‘pygmy chimpanzee hypothesis’

 

- S.E. Gould - Bacteria that work together to cause infection

 

- George Musser - Hacking the Quantum: A New Book Explains How Anyone Can Become a Amateur Quantum Physicist

 

- John Horgan - Ethicist Peter Singer Critiques Roe V. Wade, Obamacare, Romney

 

- Janet D. Stemwedel - The danger of pointing out bad behavior: retribution (and the community’s role in preventing it).

 

- Carin Bondar - Didn’t Get a Spot at Science Online 2013? Enter the CyberScreen Science Film Festival!

 

- Daisy Yuhas - Booted Dung Beetles Reveal Clever Cooling [Video]

 

- David Biello - Can Cities Be Both “Resilient” and “Sustainable”?

 

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