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#SciAmBlogs Monday - Junk DNA, science and music, neutrophils, social iguanas, binge-eating rats, prenatal testing, and more.

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- Marie-Claire Shanahan - There’s another passion behind the music of Whitehorse: The sound of scientific thinking

 

- Tyson Browning - The Design Structure Matrix: A Tool for Managing Complexity

 

- Catherine Carver - Killer skills of a neutrophil

 

- Darren Naish - Amazing social life of the Green iguana

 

- Becky Crew - New species of African monkey discovered

 

- David Bressan - Richard Owen, the “Sea-Serpent Killer”andThe Giants’ Shoulders #51: Tales of Patriotic Science-Nerds, Vortex Cannons and Nuking the Goat

 

- Ilana Yurkiewicz - But who will the doctor confide in?andUnnatural selection: is prenatal testing a triumph for reproductive freedom – or brazen discrimination?

 

- Scicurious - Orexin and Binge Eating Rats

 

- S.E. Gould - Developing new antibiotic compounds: Dual-targeting inhibitors

 

- Joris van Alphen - Mount Kinabalu: Love and Loathing in the Rainforest

 

- Lisa Becking - Mount Kinabalu: A marine biologist lost at forest

 

- Maureen McCarthy - Chimps in Uganda: “These are a few of my favorite things”

 

- Glendon Mellow - SciArt of the Day: Night Growl

 

- Kalliopi Monoyios - SciArt of the Day: The Great ArchiteuthisandSciArt of the Day: 3D Dryptosaurus

 

- Cassie Rodenberg - Why K2 is Pimp’s Choice for Controlling Young Sex Workers

 

- Krystal D'Costa - Likability: Revisiting The Psychology of Liking

 

- Kate Clancy - The Sports Psychology of Academia: Part I

 

- David Wogan - Symphony of Science Auto-tunes Climate Change

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Open Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

 

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