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#SciAmBlogs Monday - plant medicines, cooperation after tragedy, rigor mortis, life on the bottom of the sea, and more.

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- Jessica Fostvedt - Phytochemical Pharmacy: The Healing Potential of Plants

 

- Yonatan Zunger - On meteors, TNT, swallows, and the end of the world

 

- Dave Nussbaum - Narrowing the Achievement Gap with a Psychological Intervention

 

- Kate Clancy - “I had no power to say ‘that’s not okay:’” Reports of harassment and abuse in the field

 

- Melanie Tannenbaum - Cooperation after a tragedy: When our hearts know better than our minds.

 

- Jennifer Frazer - What Lives at the Bottom of the Mariana Trench? More Than You Might Think

 

- Ricki Rusting - Hold the Elevator: How Otis’s Early Systems Worked

 

- Psi Wavefunction - Ciliate gluttony (again)andGluttonous ciliate postscript: even large predators fall prey to amoebae

 

- Jason G. Goldman - Is Meat-Eating A Conservation Tactic?

 

- Maria Konnikova - Why grad schools should require students to blog

 

- Melissa C. Lott - A World Record for Energy-Efficient Lighting

 

- Kelly Oakes - Remember that solar eruption from a few days ago? It just hit EarthandElsewhere: A new physics blog and an afternoon of inspiring talks

 

- Darren Naish - Trimerorhachid temnospondyls: numerous scale layers and… gill-pouch brooding?

 

- Gary Stix - Create Your Own Phantom Hand

 

- Scott Barry Kaufman - In Defense of Working Memory Training

 

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik - Origins of Deception: The VideoandNeuroscience in Fiction: Fat Farm

 

- John Horgan - Cantankerous Historian of Science Questions Whether Science Can Achieve “Truth”

 

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Khalil’s Picks (12 April 2013)

 

- Cassie Rodenberg - To Read: “Addiction Inbox” Anthology (Review)

 

- Carin Bondar - Fish With Human Teeth and More! Best of the Blogs 3

 

- Joanne Manaster - MORE Magnetic Putty Magic

 

- Christina Agapakis - Soil Inspired Cuisine

 

- Dana Hunter - Look, Ma, I’m on NASA!

 

- DNLee - #DispatchesDNLee: Departing for Tanzania today

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Physics Week in Review: April 13, 2013

 

- John R. Platt - Starving Orangutans, Dead Bats and Other Links from the Brink (April 13, 2013)

 

- Scicurious - Friday Weird Science: What’s so big about the penis study?

 

- David Biello - Why Jim Hansen Stopped Being a Government Scientist [Video]

 

- John Matson - Planet Naming Rights Not for Sale, Says International Astronomical Union

 

- Rachel Scheer - Scientific American Co-Hosts Whale Tweet-Up at American Museum of Natural History

 

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