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#SciAmBlogs Monday - Lonesome George, impact factor, Parkinson's, saying `Sorry', physics of knuckleball, and more.

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- Jenny Morber - Gut Reaction

 

- Bruce Campbell - What food do we grow, and who gets to eat it?


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- Nathalia Holt - Breaking Bad News

 

- Gary Stix - 16-Ounce Cokes and 40 Joints a Month: When Government Dictates to Consumers

 

- John R. Platt - RIP, Lonesome George, the Last-of-His-Kind Galapágos Tortoise

 

- Jennifer Frazer - An Echidna Snuggles in for a SnoozeandIn Search of Wild Colorado Mushrooms — And Rain

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - What Rice Krispies Has To Do With Glass

 

- S.E. Gould - How bacteria break down human food

 

- Darren Naish - Crocodiles of New Guinea, crocodiles of the Philippines (crocodiles part IV)

 

- Ilana Yurkiewicz - Detachment

 

- Hadas Shema - Understanding the Journal Impact Factor – Part Two

 

- Scicurious - Parkinson’s is much more than dopamine

 

- Christie Wilcox - Prettier tits (the bird!) get more help from their partners

 

- Robynne Boyd - What’s in a name? “UN Sustainable Development Conference”

 

- George Musser - Quantum Horse Races and Crystals of Light

 

- Krystal D'Costa - Deconstructing Rituals of Reconciliation

 

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Book review: Coming of Age on Zoloft.

 

- Rose Eveleth - Plankton hunting: part art, part science and You wanted to know: what’s the food like on board?

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - The Hole

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Introducing: Miriam Kramer

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Open Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

 

- John Horgan - If Natural Gas is Less Noxious than Coal, Don’t We Have to Frack?

 

- Evelyn Lamb - One-Hit Wonder: A Look at the Physics behind Dickey’s Knuckleball

 

- Philip Yam - Can You Explain Science with 7 Everyday Items? Enter Our ‘Iron Egghead’ Video Contest

 

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