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- Hanneke J.M. Meijer - Why 2 Birds in the Hand May Be Better Than a “Hobbit” Skull (in a Cave Deposit, at Least)
- Allyson Green - Questions of Environmental Health and Justice Growing with the Petcoke Piles in Detroit
- Chris Arnade - What it took 20 years on Wall Street to learn
- Joel Taylor - Mount Shasta: The Medusa of Siskiyou County
- Bob Grumman - M@h*(pOet)?ica – The Number Poems of Richard Kostelanetz
- Ben Thomas - A Secret Society of Cells Runs Your Brain
- Jag Bhalla - Rationality In Markets Is Cognitively UnnaturalandThe Limits of Psychophysics, And Physics
- Scicurious - Losing the “taste” for spermandHow Perfect Is Perfect Pitch?andFriday Weird Science: Does your mouse prefer Renoir to Picasso?
- Roshan Karki - Scicurious Guest Writer: Societal challenges to science communication in Nepal
- Becky Crew - Leeches from the Underworld Don’t Want Your Blood
- Kelly Oakes - Voyager is in a new region of space, and now that place has a name
- Hadas Shema - Do blog posts correlate with a higher number of future citations?
- Bonnie Swoger - Textbooks and open educational resources
- Christina Agapakis - Are plants "actually doing maths"?
- Kate Clancy - Ladybusiness Anthropologist Throws Up Hands, Concedes Men Are the Reason for Everything Interesting in Human Evolution
- Scott Barry Kaufman - Review of The Autistic BrainandQ & A with Temple Grandin on The Autistic Brain
- Ruth Kastner - Can We Resolve Quantum Paradoxes by Stepping Out of Space and Time?
- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Lindau 2013: Unity and diversity
- Melanie Tannenbaum - Fighting Fair: How To Tackle Crucial Conversations On Facebook & Twitter
- Krystal D'Costa - What does it mean when we need to take a break from Facebook?andTrilobites Everywhere!
- S.E. Gould - Clever microbes: bacterial sensors and signals
- Janet D. Stemwedel - The ethics of opting out of vaccination.andStrategies to address questionable statistical practices.andC.K. Gunsalus on responsible — and prudent — whistleblowing.andThe continuum between outright fraud and “sloppy science”: inside the frauds of Diederik Stapel (part 5).
- Maureen McCarthy - Chimps in Uganda: Hunting for Answers
- Juliana Duran - Military Buildup’s Environmental Takedown
- Molly Sullivan - Challenges Facing Japan’s Marine Fisheries
- Nathalie Sami and Janice Wong - Hyperbaric Oxygen: A Spectrum of Emerging Treatments
- Katie Lee - The Historical Collapse of Southern California Fisheries and the Rocky Future of Seafood
- Katherine Harmon - Unusual Offshore Octopods: Lady Octopus Attracts Mates with a Glowing Kisserand Unusual Offshore Octopods: Deep-Sea Octopus Hatches Fully Formed, Walks Away [Video]
- David Bressan - The Earth-shattering Loch Ness Monster that wasn’tandJune 24, 1982: “The Jakarta Incident”andAccretionary Wedge #57: I see (dead) Geologists
- Maria Konnikova - Why we celebrate the summer solstice
- Felicity Muth - Turtle embryos move inside their eggs to the coolest spots
- Jason G. Goldman - More Friends Make Lemurs Better Thieves (But What Does It Mean For Brain Evolution?)
- Jennifer Frazer - Is This Spindly Fossil a 3-Billion-Year-Old Eukaryote?andGreen Alga Found to Prey on Bacteria, Bolstering Endosymbiotic Theory
- John R. Platt - Saiga Success: Critically Endangered Antelope Population Doubles in 5 YearsandThe 4 Most Endangered Seal Species
- Cassie Rodenberg - How to Shoot UpandAddicts as Parents, Part II: Drugs to Hospital, Another DayandAddicts as Parents, Part III: Future PlanningandAddicts as Parents, Part IV: When Kids Matter LittleandAddicts as Parents, Part V: Painkillers Bring You Back
- Darren Naish - The enormous liolaemine radiation: paradoxical herbivory, viviparity, evolutionary cul-de-sacs and the impending mass extinctionandTet Zoo Bookshelf: van Grouw’s Unfeathered Bird, Bodio’s Eternity of Eagles, Witton’s Pterosaurs, Van Duzer’s Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps!
- Evelyn Lamb - Lord Kelvin and the Age of the EarthandIntroducing the Blog on Math BlogsandA Twelve-Tone Trip Down Memory Lane, Courtesy of Vi Hart
- Mary Karmelek - Collapsible Summer Fun: The Berthon Folding Canoe
- Jesse Bering - DOMA’s Demise and Sexual Deviants: What’s at the Bottom of the “Slippery Slope”?
- Julie Hecht - How to decrease head cocking: Watch a dog behavior & cognition conference todayandCanine Science This Summer Near You
- Scott Huler - Do you promise not to tell?
- Robynne Boyd - Obama Looks to the Clean Air Act as Inspiration for Tackling Climate
- David Wogan - President Obama to unveil climate plan TuesdayandAfrica’s energy poverty, as seen from space
- John Horgan - Will “Persistent Surveillance” Turn U.S. into One Big Panopticon?
- Kyle Hill - When The Last of Us are Left, How Long Would it Take to Transcribe Wikipedia?andThe Fungus that Reduced Humanity to The Last of UsandNerds and Words: Week 25andNerds and Words: Week 26
- Alex Wild - Who owns photographs taken by scientists?andThrifty Thursday: The Mighty CupcakeandRecipe for a photograph #3: Pollinators in Flight
- Dana Hunter - GeoKitten! Inverted Topography Kitteh
- Kalliopi Monoyios - You Had Me At Hydrothermal Vent WormsandClick! Onomatopoeia For Your EyesandThe SciArt Buzz: ScienceArt on Exhibit in July/Aug 2013
- Katie McKissick - Science Art in Everyday Life
- Glendon Mellow - Puzzling out Brain IconographyandAvenging Feathered DinosaursandFuture of the Big Five
- Brian Malow - Insect Paparazzi: Leafhoppers!
- Carin Bondar - Vicious Babies: Tough, Deadly and Adorable.
- Joanne Manaster - More EXPOSED: The Global Epidemic of TBandNASA Astronomer Explains SupermoonandSTEM Makes Cars Safer, Buildings Taller, Enables Hearing and Moves Giant Magnets!
- Jennifer Ouellette - Physics Week in Review: June 21, 2013andPhysics Week in Review: June 29, 2013
- Bora Zivkovic - Bora’s Picks (June 28th, 2013)
- Khalil A. Cassimally - Khalil’s Picks (21 June 2013)
- Bora Zivkovic - Best of June at A Blog Around The Clock
- Eric R. Olson - A Map of the Local Universe, and More – The Countdown #25
- Philip Yam - Lonesome George, the Iconic Galápagos Tortoise, Gets Prepared for Taxidermy [Video]
- John Matson - Voyager 1 Returns Surprising Data about an Unexplored Region of Deep Space
- Kate Wong - Horse Fossil Yields Astonishingly Old Genome—Are Similarly Ancient Human Genomes Next?
- David Biello - Obama Has a Plan for Climate, What If It Involves Tar Sands?andTar Sands No Worse than Other Oils for Pipeline Spills
- Mark Fischetti - Science Will Protect Us from Climate Change, Obama Says
- Larry Greenemeier - WikiLeaks Defends NSA Whistleblower, Condemns PRISM Digital Surveillance
- Caitlin Shure - How Secret Spying Programs Affect the Clinically Paranoid
- Rachel Scheer - Enhancing desalination efficiency, a new language for the deaf and blind, and electricity from tomato juice: Meet the Science in Action finalists, Part 3andExpiring food, hanging gardens, the power of sepiolite, farmer software and plankton: Meet the Science in Action finalists, part 4
- Mariette DiChristina - Science in Action Winner for 2013: Elif Bilgin
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