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#SciAmBlogs - the New Year edition!

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- Elaine Schattner - Hillary Clinton, Hospitalized with a Blood Clot, Faces New Decisions

 

- Rob Dunn - Eleven Ways to Avoid Answering a Question: A Year in Review


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- Christie Wilcox - Expensive Organs: Guppies Reveal The Cost Of Big BrainsandScience Sushi: 2012 in Review

 

- Jennifer Frazer - Take This Shell and Shove It: The Mollusk That Became a Worm

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Computational research in the era of open access: Standards and best practicesandEnergy drinks: Glorified caffeine delivery systems?

 

- Darren Naish - Life and times of the wild Axolotl and Mysteries of the diceratheriine rhinos

 

- Hannah Waters - Don’t Talk About Your New Year’s Resolutions

 

- Hadas Shema - What’s wrong with citation analysis?

 

- Maria Konnikova - Sherlock Holmes, the mindful detective

 

- Ingrid Wickelgren and Maria Konnikova - How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes: The Value of Creativity and Imagination [Excerpt]

 

- Cassie Rodenberg - Addiction on the Streets: Frequently Asked QuestionsandNeecy: The Attitude Toward Relapse on the Streets

 

- Katherine Harmon - Octopuses Feast On Florida’s Stone Crab Straight from Traps

 

- Kate Clancy - Will the Pill Mess Up My Ability to Detect My One True Love?

 

- Alex Wild - Compound Eye Readers’ Best Science and Nature Photographs of 2012andMy personal best photographs of 2012andRecipe for a Photograph #1: Reflected Ant on BlackandThrifty Thursday: Pro Photographer vs. Buzz Lightyear Camera

 

- Joanne Manaster - My Favorite Science (or Marginally Science Themed) Videos from 2012andScientists Use Cells to Fold Origami

 

- Carin Bondar - Always a Bridesmaid: The Top 5 Overshadowed Science Stories of 2012

 

- John R. Platt - Fewer Manatee Deaths in 2012, but Threats Remain

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Pop Goes the New Year: Popover Science

 

- Scott Huler - The Plugged-In Library of the FutureandTweeting to Save the Day

 

- Robert Fares - Could Transformer-level Batteries Shield the Grid from the Next Super Storm?

 

- David Wogan - How North Korea Fuels Its Military Trucks With Trees

 

- Gary Stix - Levi-Montalcini, A Giant of Neuroscience Leaves a Living Legacy

 

- DNLee - Celebrating New Year with age-old traditions

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - So You’re a Scientist Wanting to Write a Popular Science Book?

 

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Khalil’s Picks (4 January 2013)

 

- Psi Wavefunction - Bicosoeca -- flagellate in a wineglass

 

- Kevin Zelnio - Moving On

 

- Dana Hunter - Twelve – Okay, Eight – Months of Rosetta Stones, Plus Reader Extras

 

- Scicurious - Friday Weird Science: Give your kindle that old-book smell!andHappy New Years!!!

 

- John Matson - Top 10 Space Stories of 2012

 

- Larry Greenemeier - Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Preview: Apps Replace Operating Systems

 

- Katherine Harmon - Did Human Ancestors “Walk” Up Trees? [Video]andHow Corn Syrup Might Be Making Us Hungry–and FatandGrowth Factor: How Bacterial Infections Persist Through Antibiotics [Video]andDUD: The Nightmarish Dangers of Drowsy Driving

 

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